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Kilim & Flat Weave

Wool

NO. 33132

Turkey, c. 1950-1959

13'11" X 20'6" (4.24 m x 6.25 m)

$34,000

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Oversized Vintage Kilim in Beige & Cream Hues with Geometric Stripes - Rug & Kilim

Handwoven in wool connoting mid-century panel weaving, this 14x20 vintage kilim rug originates circa 1950-1959 from Turkey. On the Design: This exceptional kilim achieves remarkable sophistication through the deceptive simplicity of its vertical stripe design. The neutral palette demonstrates masterful understanding of tonal relationships—warm taupe bands alternating with cooler beige and cream stripes to create subtle temperature contrasts that energize the design with gold accents. Some bands appear in concentrated solid tones while others reveal subtle gradations, suggesting traditional hand-dyeing processes that produce organic color variations impossible to achieve through commercial means. The natural palette provides a perfect backdrop for both warm and cool design elements, while the vertical stripe rhythm adds directional energy ideal for elongating spaces or creating visual height. Condition This Vintage Kilim further enjoys great condition for its age and origin.

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Specifications:

Measurements: 13'11" x 20'6" ( 4.24 m x 6.25 m )
Categories: Kilim & Flat Weave, Vintage
Classification: Kilim/Flat Weave, Solid/Stripes
Material: Wool
Origin: Turkey
SKU: 33132

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

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

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

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

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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Zeki Müren, Da Silva Bruhns, and Leleu: How These Artists Transformed Rugs into the Language of Modernism

September 19, 2025

Zeki Müren, Da Silva Bruhns, and Leleu: How These Artists Transformed Rugs into the Language of Modernism

The story of modernism in textiles is often told through architecture, painting, and furniture. Yet, some of the most radical ideas of the 20th century were not framed on walls or set on pedestals—they were laid underfoot. Rugs, once treated as either anonymous craft or as inherited luxury, became a medium for modernist expression. Few figures embody this transformation more than Zeki Müren, Da Silva Bruhns, and Leleu. Each worked in distinct cultural contexts—Müren in postwar Turkey, Da Silva Bruhns in interwar France, and the Leleu firm across early- to mid-century Paris—but together they reframed rugs not as decoration but as a language: one capable of abstraction, geometry, rhythm, and modern life.

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

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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Oversized Vintage Striped Kilim

Oversized Vintage Striped Kilim

Oversized Vintage Striped Kilim

Oversized Vintage Striped Kilim

Oversized Vintage Striped Kilim

Oversized Vintage Striped Kilim

Oversized Vintage Striped Kilim

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Oversized Vintage Striped Kilim

Kilim & Flat Weave

Wool

NO. 33132

Turkey, c. 1950-1959

13'11" X 20'6" (4.24 m x 6.25 m)

$34,000

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Oversized Vintage Kilim in Beige & Cream Hues with Geometric Stripes - Rug & Kilim

Handwoven in wool connoting mid-century panel weaving, this 14x20 vintage kilim rug originates circa 1950-1959 from Turkey. On the Design: This exceptional kilim achieves remarkable sophistication through the deceptive simplicity of its vertical stripe design. The neutral palette demonstrates masterful understanding of tonal relationships—warm taupe bands alternating with cooler beige and cream stripes to create subtle temperature contrasts that energize the design with gold accents. Some bands appear in concentrated solid tones while others reveal subtle gradations, suggesting traditional hand-dyeing processes that produce organic color variations impossible to achieve through commercial means. The natural palette provides a perfect backdrop for both warm and cool design elements, while the vertical stripe rhythm adds directional energy ideal for elongating spaces or creating visual height. Condition This Vintage Kilim further enjoys great condition for its age and origin.

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Specifications:

Measurements: 13'11" x 20'6" ( 4.24 m x 6.25 m )
Categories: Kilim & Flat Weave, Vintage
Classification: Kilim/Flat Weave, Solid/Stripes
Material: Wool
Origin: Turkey
SKU: 33132

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