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NO. 23330

Turkey

5'4" X 9'6" (1.63 m x 2.90 m)

$7,400 - Check Availability i

Distressed Brown rug fragment on blue flat weave by Rug & Kilim

Name: Distressed Brown rug fragment on blue flat weave by Rug & Kilim
Brand: Rug & Kilim
SKU: 23330
Availability: InStock

Hand-knotted in fine wool,a 5x10 fragment rug bearing distressed aesthetics resting calmly on a blue-gray flatweave. The fragment prevails in bright yellow, beige & red complementing a natural high low atop the flatweave—capable of adorning a variety of projects, best suited for wall hangings or as a conversation piece, though possible for certain projects underfoot. From a bold new layering technique by Rug & Kilim, recreating classic pieces in a refreshing, yet reverent style with limitless possibilities.

"For years, R&K has been a favorite source for Kemble Interiors when we need antique, vintage, and custom designed rugs. Their inventory is deep and well displayed online and working in person is always such a pleasure too!"

— Celerie Kemble, Kemble Interiors

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Specifications:

Measurements: 5'4" x 9'6" ( 1.63 m x 2.90 m )
Categories: Accessories, Kilim & Flat Weave
Classification: Classic/Traditional, Distressed, Fragment, Geometric, Kilim/Flat Weave, Textural/High Low
Origin: Turkey
SKU: 23330

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Stories from the Accessories Collection

Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.

November 3, 2026

The Art of Bespoke Design by Rug & Kilim: How a Painting, a Fabric, or a Fragment Becomes a Custom Rug

Every custom rug begins with a question that sounds simple and is not: what does this room want to stand on? The answer, in the finest commissions, rarely arrives as a specification. It arrives as an object. A client brings in a painting they have loved for thirty years. A designer adores a length of antique silk, or lays down a sample of a document fabric, or produces a photograph of a fresco glimpsed on a wall in Ravenna. The brief is a feeling, held in another medium, waiting to be carried into wool or silk or sometimes, exotic fibres. This act of carrying is the true art of the custom rug, and it is far older and more serious than the word “custom” suggests. It is translation, in the fullest literary sense: the movement of meaning from one language into another, with everything gained and lost that translation implies. It is also, increasingly, the way the most celebrated interiors in the world are made. When AD100 designer Heidi Caillier needed flatweaves for a coastal retreat, when Fawn Galli reimagined a historic Beaux-Arts townhouse on the Upper West Side, when a Jacques Grange penthouse called for a hand-knotted silk carpet, the floor did not come off a shelf. It was translated into being, object by object, idea by idea.

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October 27, 2026

On Gift-Sized Rugs and the Art of Placing Them with Intention

There is a certain kind of design confidence that reveals itself not in the grand room but in the modest one. Anyone with means can lay a great carpet beneath a grand piano or across the floor of a double-height salon. The room does half the work; the scale flatters the object. It takes a far subtler eye to bring a jewel of a weaving into the kitchen, along the narrow run of a hallway, beneath the feet at a bedside, into the threshold where guests first stand, the working, in-between, unglamorous spaces of a home that most people surrender to practicality without a second thought. The designers whose interiors endure understand that these are precisely the spaces where taste declares itself most clearly. The small rug is the connoisseur's signature.

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October 22, 2026

Art Nouveau Rugs: The Intersection of Decorative Arts and Modern Design

Among the most influential artistic movements of the modern era, Art Nouveau occupies a unique place at the intersection of art, architecture, design, and craftsmanship. Emerging in Europe during the final decades of the nineteenth century, the movement sought to dissolve traditional boundaries between fine art and decorative art, creating a unified aesthetic language inspired by nature, movement, and organic beauty. Within this broader creative revolution, Art Nouveau rugs emerged as some of the most sophisticated and expressive textile works ever produced. Unlike the historical revival styles that dominated much of the nineteenth century, Art Nouveau embraced innovation. Designers looked beyond historical ornament and instead turned to the natural world for inspiration. Flowing vines, botanical forms, floral motifs, curved silhouettes, and rhythmic asymmetry became defining characteristics of the movement. Rugs created within this design philosophy transformed the role of carpets from decorative accessories into integral architectural and artistic elements.

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October 20, 2026

The Artists Behind European Tapestry: A Guide to the Names Worth Knowing

There is a persistent misconception about tapestry, and it is worth correcting at the outset: that the weaving is the whole of the art. It is not. Behind every great European tapestry stands an artist, the author of the design from which the weavers worked, and the history of the medium is in large part the history of these figures. To collect tapestry seriously, or simply to understand it well, is to know their names. What follows is a guide to the artists who matter most, arranged as the tradition itself unfolded, from the royal workshops of the old regime to the modern revival that made tapestry, once again, one of the most ambitious art forms in the world.

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September 25, 2026

Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting

Anyone can acquire a rug. To collect one, to bring it into a serious collection with the confidence that it belongs there, requires a discipline, and that discipline rests on three questions. Across four decades of building one of the most significant archives in the country, this house has come to evaluate every object through the same three. They are the difference between buying and collecting, and they are worth setting down plainly, because they apply as readily to a Safavid fragment as to a signed Aubusson, and because they are the same three questions, at bottom, that a curator at the Metropolitan or a specialist at Christie's brings to any object of consequence.

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July 1, 2022

A Glossary of Handmade Rugs and Kilims: Understanding Terms, Types and Techniques Past and Present

Referring to the art style characterized by using shape and color withdrawn from traditional repetition or realism. Abstract rugs — sometimes referred to as art rugs — capture an expressive nature that reads as a very modern style, though many abstract rugs draw inspiration from works of the same art style in the mid-century. One of the more widely known mid-century lineages of this style is abstract expressionism, named for the literal "expressionists" of the 1950s. Some of the most notable names behind this style include Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Referring to a lineage of nomadic Persian rugs (sometimes referred to as “Avsar” in the alternate spelling). Afshar rugs hail from the eponymous tribe in the region of Northeastern Iran.

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Accessories

NO. 23330

Turkey

5'4" X 9'6" (1.63 m x 2.90 m)

$7,400 - Check Availabilityi

Distressed Brown rug fragment on blue flat weave by Rug & Kilim

"Josh has been able to dredge up some of the rarest and most beautiful carpets for our nerdy and stringent requirements. And we have had a grand time together assembling collections for clients."

— Ralph Harvard, Ralph Harvard Inc.

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Specifications:

Measurements: 5'4" x 9'6" ( 1.63 m x 2.90 m )
Categories: Accessories, Kilim & Flat Weave
Classification: Classic/Traditional, Distressed, Fragment, Geometric, Kilim/Flat Weave, Textural/High Low
Origin: Turkey
SKU: 23330

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Stories from the Accessories Collection

The Art of Bespoke Design by Rug & Kilim: How a Painting, a Fabric, or a Fragment Becomes a Custom Rug

On Gift-Sized Rugs and the Art of Placing Them with Intention

Art Nouveau Rugs: The Intersection of Decorative Arts and Modern Design

The Artists Behind European Tapestry: A Guide to the Names Worth Knowing

Provenance, Structure, Intelligibility: The Three Pillars of Serious Collecting

A Glossary of Handmade Rugs and Kilims: Understanding Terms, Types and Techniques Past and Present

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Distressed Brown rug fragment on blue flat weave by Rug & Kilim

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