Vintage Rugs
Vintage has also been synonymous with who we are since our beginning, particularly for our unparalleled Kilim collection, but with the rise of Mid Century collection, the term vintage carpet has become very popular—especially exciting because often times many of the carpets have also been treated, washed, dyed over, sheered, and modified—and has created a very successful category. We’re especially very proud of our vintage Kilims and Turkish rugs curated for our expansive collection of both area rugs and runners alike.
Rug & Kilim maintains our own facilities for cleaning and restoration exclusively for carpets we’ve sold to ensure their lasting beauty and care long after a piece leaves our collection.
- Under 6 x 9
- Runners
- 6 x 9
- 8 x 10
- 9 x 12
- 10 x 14
- 12 x 15
- Over 12 x 15
- Turkish
- Swedish
- Morocco
- Persian
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38158Vintage Turkish Kilim Runner with Folk Designs in Red & Orange - Rug & Kilim
38155Vintage Turkish Runner with Mosaic Waves in Red & Beige - Rug & Kilim
38103Vintage Turkish Kilim Rug with Stripes in Warm Beige & Gray - Rug & Kilim
38089Vintage Chaput Kilim Runner with Vibrant Blue, Red & Pink Stripes - Rug & Kilim
38157Vintage Turkish Pictorial Rug in Emerald Green with Eagle Design - Rug & Kilim
38154Rug & Kilim’s Vintage Turkish Runner in Multicolor with Pixelated Design
38156Vintage Turkish Runner in Beige & Red with Pictorial Design - Rug & Kilim
32322Vintage Moroccan Rug in Beige with Black Diamond Medallions, from Rug & Kilim
38191Vintage Art Deco Rug with Classic Fan Motifs in Brown Hues - Rug & Kilim
38176Vintage Portuguese Needlepoint Rug with Floral Design in Warm Hues - Rug & Kilim
38066Vintage Persian Mazandaran Kilim Extra Long Runner in Beige & Cream - Rug & Kilim
38043Oversized Vintage Hooked Rug with Florals in Gold on Beige Field - Rug & Kilim
38042Oversized Vintage Hooked Runner with Medallion & Pastel Florals - Rug & Kilim
37950Vintage Gabbeh Rug with Majestic Lion Pictorials in Multicolor - Rug & Kilim
34114Vintage Moroccan Tuareg Rug with Geometric Motifs in Brown - Rug & Kilim
37443Vintage French Rug in Brown with Stylized Geometric Pictorials - Rug & Kilim
35535Vintage Persian Bidjar Kilim, Pinstripe Design in Beige and Chocolate - Rug & Kilim
37462Oversized Vintage Turkish Anatolian Rug with Floral Medallion - Rug & Kilim
37436Vintage French Rug with Stepped Motifs in Beige & Brown - Rug & Kilim
37955Oversized Vintage Turkish Shag Rug with Stripes in Beige Hues - Rug & Kilim
37957Vintage Turkish Mid-Century Modern Runner with Vibrant Geometry - Rug & Kilim
37959Vintage Turkish Mid-Century Modern Rug with Geometric Design - Rug & Kilim
37385Vintage French Art Deco Rug with Blue, Ivory & Brown Geometric Design - Rug & Kilim
37885Vintage Persian Solid Flatweave in Red with Charcoal Border - Rug & Kilim
37887Vintage Italian Braided Rug with Multicolor Striped Design - Rug & Kilim
37889Vintage Dutch Runner in Raspberry with Textural Geometric Design - Rug & Kilim
37399Vintage Turkish Geometric Runner in Red & Blue Medallion Design - Rug & Kilim
37403Vintage Soumak Dragon Rug with Dragon Soumak-Inspired Medallions - Rug & Kilim
37397Vintage Turkish Anatolian Rug with Floral Medallion Design - Rug & Kilim
37404Vintage Turkish Anatolian Rug in Indigo & Red Geometric Lattice - Rug & Kilim
37381Vintage Turkish Hereke Rug with Brown Classic Geometric Design - Rug & Kilim
37392Vintage Turkish Anatolian Prayer Rug with Ivory Mihrab Design - Rug & Kilim
37156Vintage Oushak Rug with Floral Medallion & Turkish Botanical Design - Rug & Kilim
37241Vintage Chinese Pictorial Runner with Eight Immortals Design in Pastels - Rug & Kilim
37413Vintage Turkish Distressed Anatolian Rug with Paisley Medallion - Rug & Kilim
37411Vintage Turkish Anatolian Rug with Twin Bold Geometric Medallions - Rug & Kilim- 37416Vintage Turkish Anatolian Prayer Rug with Ornate Border Design - Rug & Kilim
37429Vintage Turkish Anatolian Rug with Geometric Lattice Design - Rug & Kilim
37395Vintage Turkish Anatolian Prayer Rug with Geometric Mihrab Design - Rug & Kilim
37393Vintage Turkish Anatolian Prayer Rug with Ivory & Gold Mihrab - Rug & Kilim
37428AVintage Turkish Anatolian Prayer Rug with Polychrome Design - Rug & Kilim
37426Vintage Turkish Anatolian Prayer Rug with Olive Green Mihrab Design - Rug & Kilim
37391Vintage Turkish Anatolian Prayer Rug with Multicolor Mihrab Design - Rug & Kilim
37424Vintage Turkish Anatolian Rug with Bold Geometric Panel Design - Rug & Kilim
36979Vintage Moroccan Tuareg Mat with Bold Tribal Designs in Beige & Red - Rug & Kilim
Stories from the Vintage Archive
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
On the Changing Nature of Money, and a Quiet Shift in How the World’s Great Collections Are Built
As seen in Milieu Magazine’s Summer 2025 Issue, designed by Studio Meghan Eisenbergh, features an antique Amritsar rug from Rug & Kilim’s collection.View More >> Something has changed in the psychology of collecting, and it has changed quietly. For most of the modern era, the serious collector acquired for love, for scholarship, for the pleasure of living with beautiful things, and the question of value, while never absent, sat politely in the background. That arrangement has quietly inverted. Across the last two years, industry surveys have recorded a striking figure: the share of high-net-worth collectors intending to sell from their holdings has fallen from more than half to roughly a quarter. The collector of this moment is not looking to liquidate. They are looking to hold. And they are increasingly treating the objects they acquire not as expenditures but as architecture, as a considered, diversified structure of wealth that also happens to be beautiful.
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Vintage Andean Frazada Kilim and the Three Thousand Years of Living Memory Held in Its Weave
The most sophisticated rooms in America are being furnished, increasingly, with an object its makers never intended to sell. The Andean frazada, a handwoven kilim produced for centuries in the high villages of Peru and Bolivia for one reason only, to survive the cold, has become one of the most quietly coveted textiles in contemporary design. Collectors who could specify anything are choosing these. The reason has nothing to do with trend, and everything to do with what a frazada actually is. To understand a frazada, you must first understand the altitude. Above four thousand meters in the Andes, higher than any peak in the contiguous United States, in air so thin that newcomers move slowly and sleep poorly for days, the cold is not a season. It is a constant. It arrives every night, regardless of the calendar, and it has arrived every night for as long as people have lived in these mountains. The frazada was the answer to that cold: a thick, dense, hand-woven wool blanket, made not for sale, not for export, not for the floors of distant apartments, but for survival. For warmth. For the bed of a family that would not otherwise make it through the dark.
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The Rug That Made the Room: Ten Interiors Where the Carpet Was the Only Decision That Mattered
Every serious designer knows the moment. You walk into a room that is not yet finished; the furniture placed but provisional, the walls painted but unconvinced, the light doing its best with what it has been given and something stops you. Not the chandelier. Not the art. The floor. A carpet lies there with the particular authority of an object that has already decided what the room is going to be, and is waiting, with complete patience, for everything else to catch up. The furniture will be chosen in response to it. The color of the walls will be negotiated against it. The art will be hung at a height that the carpet's scale has already determined. The room, in the most literal sense, begins underfoot.
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From the Rothschild Collection: On Provenance, Collecting, and the Rugs That Outlast Everything
In April 2016, three rugs arrived at Christie's King Street in London that had not been seen in public for over a century. They had not been exhibited. They had not been published. They had not, so far as the scholarly record indicates, been shown to anyone outside the family that owned them since before the First World War. They were Kerman Vase carpets, woven in southeastern Persia in the seventeenth century, acquired by Ferdinand de Rothschild before his death in 1898, passed to his sister Alice, then by descent to her nephew James, and held quietly, privately, with the particular discretion that distinguishes the greatest collections from merely expensive ones for one hundred and eighteen years.
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How U.S.–Iran Tensions Are Reshaping the World of Fine Rugs: From Safavid Courts to Sanction Regimes
There is a room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where a sixteenth-century Persian carpet stops people mid-stride. Because something in the object itself; its scale, its silence, the particular authority of a thing that has already outlasted three empires makes the ordinary pace of a museum visit feel suddenly inappropriate. The Emperor's Carpet, as it is known, was commissioned in Safavid Iran, passed to Peter the Great of Russia, gifted to the Habsburg Emperor Leopold I in 1698, held by the Austrian Imperial House until 1921, acquired by the Met in 1941, and displayed publicly only twice in the following sixty years because its condition was too fragile to risk. It has survived more political systems than any collector alive today will ever witness. It knows something about geopolitics that no sanctions framework, no bilateral negotiation, no executive order has yet managed to articulate.
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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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