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Antique

Wool

NO. 37431

Caucasus, c. 1900-1919

3'6" X 7'3" (1.07 m x 2.21 m)

$4,300

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Antique Caucasian Runner with Folk Designs in Warm Earthy Hues - Rug & Kilim

Handwoven in wool and originating circa 1900-1919, this 4x7 antique Caucasian runner features a central dark medallion spine flanked by stacked hooked diamond lozenges on an ivory field with rich polychromatic tribal accents.Its naturally aged patina lends depth to a timeless tribal aesthetic. On the Design: A compelling architectural statement from the Caucasus region, this turn-of-the-century antique runner illustrates the disciplined spatial layout and graphic vigor characteristic of early tribal weaving. The framework is built around a long, dark slate-blue rectangular core that functions as a central spine down the middle of the field. Embedded within this dark column is a sequential procession of stacked, eight-pointed star lozenges, offering a dense focal anchor that contrasts sharply with the surrounding elements. Flanking the central column is an open, warm ivory field populated on both sides by a procession of polychromatic hooked diamond motifs. Drawn with sharp, stepped outlines, these traditional protective talismans appear in saturated shades of crimson red, terracotta, deep indigo, teal, and muted olive green. The interplay between the dark central axis and the light, motif-filled flanks creates a dynamic visual rhythm along the layout. Framing the entire canvas are multiple narrow guard borders and an outer reciprocal latch-hook band, securing the layout with structural precision. Displaying beautiful natural color variation and an authentic, age-softened patina, this antique runner offers a refined and historical expression of Caucasian tribal weaving. Condition: This antique Caucasian runner enjoys good condition for its age and origin.

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Specifications:

Measurements: 3'6" x 7'3" ( 1.07 m x 2.21 m )
Categories: Antique
Classification: Anatolian, Classic/Traditional, Distressed, Geometric
Material: Wool
Origin: Caucasus
SKU: 37431

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July 17, 2026

Zeki Müren and the Carpet as Self-Portrait: The Pasha Who Designed His Own Floor

In the showroom of Hüseyin Kaplan, in the Sultanahmet quarter of Istanbul beneath the minarets of the old city, there are more than five hundred carpets that belong to no classical category. They are not Hereke, not Oushak, not the courtly Ottoman medallion weavings that the connoisseur expects from this geography. They are jewel-toned and abstract, shot through with an abstract confidence, and they bear, some of them, the signed ones, a name woven into the border that any Turk and most serious collectors would recognise instantly. They are the work of Zeki Müren, and they constitute one of the most singular bodies of design the twentieth-century carpet has produced.

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May 19, 2026

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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April 29, 2026

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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April 28, 2026

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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March 12, 2026

Bessarabian Rugs and Kilims: A European Textile Tradition at the Crossroads of Art, Empire and Design

In a quietly elegant London dining room, a vintage Bessarabian Kilim unfolds beneath the table like an unexpected conversation. Its geometry—subtle yet assertive—draws the eye before one quite realizes why. Inspired by the visual language of early twentieth-century design, the rug nods gently toward the stylized symmetry of Art Deco while remaining unmistakably rooted in a much older European weaving lineage. The effect is a foundation that feels both deliberate and effortless, an object whose presence quietly animates the room. Those who spend time studying interiors often admit a particular fondness for photographs that capture rooms in use rather than in perfection. The slight shift of a chair, the shadow of evening light on polished wood, a glass forgotten after supper—these small evidences of life soften even the most composed design. In such moments, a rug becomes more than a decorative surface. It becomes the mediator between architecture and living.

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March 10, 2026

The Ukrainian Rugs and Kilims: The Floral Carpets Designers Are Rediscovering

To speak of Ukrainian rugs and kilims is to speak of a culture where textiles were never merely decorative objects but expressions of identity, memory, and landscape. Across centuries, Ukrainian carpets evolved within a unique cultural geography that bridged the worlds of Central Europe, the Ottoman East, and the Russian Empire. The resulting aesthetic language—rich with floral symbolism, rhythmic geometry, and painterly color—reflects the same cultural currents that shaped Ukrainian painting, poetry, and decorative arts. In village homes, noble estates, and eventually museum collections, these carpets became quiet witnesses to history. Their patterns echo fields of wildflowers across the Ukrainian steppe, their colors recalling the deep reds and earth tones that dominate traditional folk painting. Today, designers and collectors increasingly recognize Ukrainian rugs as part of a broader artistic tradition that connects textiles to the visual arts, literature, and interior architecture of Eastern Europe.

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Antique

Wool

NO. 37431

Caucasus, c. 1900-1919

3'6" X 7'3" (1.07 m x 2.21 m)

$4,300

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Antique Caucasian Runner with Folk Designs in Warm Earthy Hues - Rug & Kilim

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Specifications:

Measurements: 3'6" x 7'3" ( 1.07 m x 2.21 m )
Categories: Antique
Classification: Anatolian, Classic/Traditional, Distressed, Geometric
Material: Wool
Origin: Caucasus
SKU: 37431

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Stories from the Antique Collection

Zeki Müren and the Carpet as Self-Portrait: The Pasha Who Designed His Own Floor

What William Morris, Paul Poiret, and the Bauhaus Each Understood About the Rug and What French Art Deco Proved

How the World’s Most Serious Art Spaces Are Rewriting the Rules of the Floor and the Contemporary Home

How U.S.–Iran Tensions Are Reshaping the World of Fine Rugs: From Safavid Courts to Sanction Regimes

Bessarabian Rugs and Kilims: A European Textile Tradition at the Crossroads of Art, Empire and Design

The Ukrainian Rugs and Kilims: The Floral Carpets Designers Are Rediscovering

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