The Jahanshah Collection
The Royal Collection is an unparalleled curation of the finest rugs, kilims, and tapestries in our archive. Representing decades of discerning acquisitions, the collection brings together masterworks that reflect the highest achievements in textile art, pieces that embody rare technique, cultural heritage, and uncompromising quality. Each work stands as a testament to the artistry and mastery of its origin, offering a glimpse into the enduring value of thoughtful design and time-honored craftsmanship.
- Under 6 x 9
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- 6 x 9
- 8 x 10
- 9 x 12
- 10 x 14
- 12 x 15
- Over 12 x 15
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37443Vintage French Rug in Brown with Stylized Geometric Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
36552Rug & Kilim’s Modern Polonaise Rug with Florals in Beige & Muted Pastels
37956Antique 19th Century Rare Persian Heriz Triclinium Silk Carpet with Hafez Ghazals & Medallions - Rug & Kilim
37324Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary Floral Rug with Dense Paisley Florals in Jewel Tones
37486Oversized Antique 18th Century French Aubusson ‘Louis Philippe Rug’ - Rug & Kilim
37483Antique 17th Century Chinese Ming Runner with Lotus & Peony Design - Rug & Kilim
37148Oversized Antique French Savonnerie Rug with Stately Medallion - Rug & Kilim
37326Rug & Kilim’s Modern Persian Rug with Intricate Medallion in Ocean Hues
37325Rug & Kilim’s Distressed Modern Rug with Abstract Florals in Coral & Gray Hues
37321Rug & Kilim’s Distressed Contemporary Floral Rug Pair, in Bright Red & Pink Hues
37320Rug & Kilim’s Distressed Modern Runner with Abstract Florals in Muted Blue & Green
37319Rug & Kilim’s Modern Persian Rug with Stately Central Medallion in Brown Hues
37318Rug & Kilim’s Modern Persian Rug with Floral Vinery in Earthy Hues & Jewel Tones
37137/37138Antique Art Deco Rug Pair by Jean Burkhalter for Pierre Chareau - Rug & Kilim
37136Signed “JF” Antique Modernist Aubusson Rug with Neo Baroque Design - Rug & Kilim
37144Vintage Persian Amoghli Art Deco Runner with Red Stylized Fishes - Rug & Kilim
36700Antique French Aubusson Rug, Neoclassical Design in Gold & Blue - Rug & Kilim
35755Oversized Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Black with Floral Patterns - Rug & Kilim
37430Antique Savonnerie Rug with Concentric Lozenge Medallion - Rug & Kilim
35893Vintage Da Silva Bruhns French Art Deco Tapestry, Bird Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
35700Antique 19th Century Karabagh Rug with Luminous Floral Medallions - Rug & Kilim
35702Vintage Leleu French Art Deco Rug, Green Geometric Gallery Runner - Rug & Kilim
35324Rug & Kilim’s Chinese Art Deco-Inspired Rug, Gold with Serene Pictorial “Breeze
35232Fetcher House Vintage Arts & Crafts Palace Rug in Morris Lillies - Rug & Kilim
32191Oversized Antique French Aubusson Beige Rug with Floral Medallion - Rug & Kilim
34546Rug & Kilim’s Modern Square Rug in Silver, Black, and Blue with Medallion “Shekar”
35186Rug & Kilim’s Persian Rug, Gold and Charcoal Abstract Florals
34107Antique French Savonnerie Rug in Brown and Green with Medallion - Rug & Kilim
31844Rug & Kilim Modern Rug with Abstract Geometric Patterns in Beige and Gray
23995Rug & Kilim’s Modern Rug Square Rug, Beige and Gray Floral Medallion "Rose"
32506Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Pictorial Rug in Red, Brown, Pink Tones
32507Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Rug with Red Medallion
32508Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Square Rug in Polychrome Floral Medallion "Liliom"
32499Rug & Kilim’s Contemporary Rug in Gray and Orange Abstract Patterns "Naroon"- Out of Stock
33807Rug & Kilim’s Art Nouveau Custom Rug Design with Green Geometric Pattern 
32539Vintage Jean Picart Le Doux Pictorial Tapestry ‘Musique de Chambre’ | Rug & Kilim
32484Rug & Kilim’s Custom Ombre Rug Design in Chartreuse and Light Pink Hues
27621Oversized Vintage Dhurrie Square Rug in Blue Stripes and Geometric Border
31431Antique Heriz Bakshaish Persian Rug with Geometric Medallion - Rug & Kilim
32281Oversized Antique Ziegler Persian Sultanabad Rug with Florals, from Rug & Kilim
32246Oversized Antique Tabriz Persian Rug in Gold, with Medallion from Rug & Kilim
31973Oversized Antique Aubusson Rug in Beige with Floral Patterns, from Rug & Kilim
31847Oversized Rug & Kilim’s Oushak Rug in Gray and Beige with Cream Floral Patterns
35063Antique Bessarabian Rug, Monkey Pictorials and Floral Medallion - Rug & Kilim
31856Oversized Vintage Moroccan Tuareg Mat, with Geometric Stripes, from Rug & Kilim
Stories from the The Jahanshah Collection Archive
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
The Layered Home: 5 Ways to Rethink Floor Rugs and Wall Tapestries
The real spatial dimension does not get painted, it gets woven. Begin with hanging a piece such as Signed Vintage Lia Cook Tapestry slightly off-center on one of your main walls. Its intricate Jacquard weave and the friction created between its rayon and linen fibers will require a lot of breathing room, immediately establishing a gravitational pull of the whole room. But to balance this vertical tension, the ground beneath your feet needs to become much more rigorous. With the use of a rigorously beaten warp-faced plane such as cotton Indian Dhurrie or Antique Swedish Röllakan's interlocking tapestry weave, you create a flat but structurally resistant base. A ground made from a rigidly woven material needs to be challenged. The last textural transition will come from placing a Vintage Frazada Kilim with heavy weft interlace across your warp-faced plane. The act of overlapping your heavy weft on a rigorously
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Of Royal Culture and Inheritance: The Silk Heriz Triclinium Carpet of 1868, Perhaps the Finest Surviving Example in the World
Our founder and principal Jahanshah Josh Nazmiyal has been in the carpet industry long enough to have learned that the great pieces announce themselves before one has understood what one is looking at. The light catches the silk a particular way. Some quiet, almost biological recognition runs through the room, the way a wine of consequence stills the table before anyone has spoken its vintage. One has the sense of having interrupted a conversation already in progress. The carpet was here first; one is being received by it. The team welcomed this silk Heriz, the way Jahanshah had unrolled perhaps forty thousand carpets across the better part of his life, and we will tell you honestly that we sat down beside it for a long time before any of us said anything. There is a particular gold in the mian farsh; the great central field, that we all have seen perhaps rarely before in a quarter-century of looking. It is the gold of late-October sun on the dome of the Shah Mosque in Isfahan, the gold the Safavid silk weavers of the seventeenth century pursued and very nearly lost, the gold that the Heriz workshops of the 1860s recovered for a brief generation of patrons before the world turned and they were forgotten. To kneel beside it is to be quiet in the presence of something that does not require your understanding to be what it is.
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What William Morris, Paul Poiret, and the Bauhaus Each Understood About the Rug and What French Art Deco Proved
In the winter of 1883, William Morris stood before a room full of wool merchants, manufacturers, and assorted Victorian worthies in a lecture hall in Birmingham and said something that no one in that room was prepared to hear. The decorative arts, he told them, were not decorative at all. They were the most serious form of human making and their degradation under industrial production was not an aesthetic problem but a civilizational one. He had brought, as he often did, an Oriental carpet to make his point. Then he said, in effect: this is what we have lost the capacity to make, and until we recover it, we have no business calling ourselves a culture.
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How the World’s Most Serious Art Spaces Are Rewriting the Rules of the Floor and the Contemporary Home
There is a room at Hauser & Wirth Somerset; the gallery that occupies a converted farmhouse in the English countryside, where Pipilotti Rist installations have shared walls with Phyllida Barlow sculptures and where the building itself feels like an argument against the idea that serious art requires a white cube to be taken seriously, where a single large antique textile lies on the stone floor beneath work of radical contemporary ambition. It does not announce itself. It simply holds the room together with the authority of an object that has been doing exactly this, in exactly this way, for several centuries longer than the art above it has existed. The artists whose work hangs on those walls have spent their careers thinking about surface, material, and the relationship between an object and the space it occupies. The carpet understood all of this before any of them picked up a brush.
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The Future of High-End Interior Design in the Age of Global Tariffs: Rugs, Trade Routes, and Regulation
As seen in Galerie Magazine, the 2026 Kips Bay Decorator Show House Palm Beach features a rare and exceptional curation from the antique rugs in Rug & Kilim’s European Collection. Read More >> Design, at its highest level, has always preferred to appear untouched by politics. A room in the Hamptons. An apartment overlooking Central Park. A villa along the French Riviera. These spaces present themselves as resolved worlds; self-contained, insulated from the volatility of markets, policy, and power. And yet, over the past year, something unusual occurred. Tariffs, as abstract instruments of economic policy, began to leave visible traces within interiors. Not dramatically, not theatrically, but with the quiet persistence of something structural. Lead times shifted. sourcing recalibrated. Materials reconsidered. Conversations that were once aesthetic became quietly strategic.
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Rug & Kilim’s Burano Collection: Centuries of Styles, Woven Anew
Each Burano rug is a legacy in the making—destined to be the antiques of the next generation. Above, a custom tiger rug design from Rug & Kilim’s Burano Collection underscores the library of a country house and cottage in Sussex, England—designed by Studio Hollond. This particular rug adapts the tiger-skin pictorial to a new large scale in blue, rust orange and black tones, playing with a rich area and playful bookcase in chartreuse tones. At the intersection of historical reverence and contemporary innovation lies Rug & Kilim's Burano Collection—a nod to the timeless design reimagined for the modern connoisseur. This exceptional line of handmade masterpieces represents a paradigm shift in the realm of luxury floor coverings, offering a fusion of antique aesthetics and modern craftsmanship.
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