Wool
India, New
2'2" X 4'6" (0.66 m x 1.37 m)
Available: Shipping As Soon As Tomorrow
Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Pictorial Hooked Runner in Charcoal with Cat Motifs
Scandinavian Design & the United States, 1890-1980
By Bobbye Tigerman and Monica Obniski. — Prestel, 2020
Modernist (20th Century), Swedish/Scandinavian
This stunning book examines design exchanges between the United States and Scandinavia over nearly a century and explores the fascinating reasons why Scandinavian design has continued to resonate with Americans. Focusing on the extensive influence of Scandinavian design in the United States, this book shows how Nordic ideas about modern design and the objects themselves had an indelible impact on American culture and material life. It also considers America's influence on Scandinavian design, showing how cultural exchange is mutual by nature.
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Stories from the Modern Collection
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry Artists’ Series: In Dialogue with Elizabeth Chester
There is a particular kind of looking that a great tapestry demands, slower than painting, more physical than sculpture, closer to reading than to seeing. The eye must travel. It must follow the thread, understand the structure, and then, having understood it, surrender to the illusion that the structure has been designed to create. The greatest European tapestries have always operated this way: technically transparent to the scholar and visually overwhelming to everyone else simultaneously. It is the most demanding of the textile arts, and the one that rewards sustained attention most completely.
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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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What Makes Qashqai Kilims Unique? Inside the World of Persian Tribal Rugs and Flatweaves
As seen in Domino Magazine, featuring our Kilim rug, designed by Los Angeles design firm A1000XBetter, founded by Kirsten Blazek. Over the last four decades of collecting, studying, and preserving Kilims and Flatweaves, we have come to understand them not simply as tribal textiles, especially Qashqai kilims, which are documents authored by women whose names we will never know, yet whose design decisions resonate across centuries. Every kilim in a collection is a fragment of a larger ethnographic narrative of movement, negotiation, and encoded survival. What begins as a study in tribal design inevitably becomes a reflection on how memory operates in material form. As collectors and custodians, we have come to understand these pieces less as possessions and more as conversations—between past and present, utility and abstraction, territory and transcendence. They speak to the same values that define the most forward-thinking design philosophies: sustainability, material honesty, visual intelligence, and narrative depth.
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A Day in the Life: Inside the Venerable House of Rug & Kilim
The foundations of a great institution are laid not with brick and mortar, but with passion, knowledge, and unwavering commitment to craft. For over four decades, Rug & Kilim has strove for excellence—a family dynasty of textile connoisseurship built upon Jahanshah Nazmiyal's pioneering vision and now continued through the stewardship of his sons, Cyrus and Sina Nazmiyal. To understand textile is to understand human civilization itself. Every knot, every weft, every fiber tells us something profound about culture, commerce, and art expression. This is not merely our business—it is our obsession.
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German Tetex Rugs: The Complete Collector’s Guide
German Tetex rugs are among the most fascinating yet underappreciated textile developments of the post-war era. These textiles exemplify that rug design could speak the same revolutionary language as Mondrian's canvases or Gropius's buildings. They pose a question we couldn't stop pursuing: how did a German factory, rising from the literal ashes of war, create textiles that could hold their own against any modern canvas hanging on the wall above them? The story of Tetex rugs begins in the aftermath of World War II, when Germany's devastated economy sought new pathways to industrial revival. The Tetex company, established in the textile heartland of Saxony, emerged as a pioneering force in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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A Guide to Rollakan and Rya Swedish Rug Weaving Techniques
Scandinavian rugs and tapestries have been a part of the region's culture as early as the 12h century, evolving in form and function over time. Swedish rugs have been historically influenced from the themes and patterns of the Eastern world, especially during the tenure of the Ottoman Empire, given their entry into Sweden since the Middle Ages, through trade routes. Swedish rugs eventually became Internationally-acclaimed given their Oriental influence coupled with Scandinavian folk traditional representations. Weaving has long been integral to this region, also corroborated by the Swedish queen Hedvig Eleonora’s support of the weavers in 1696, when she ordered napkins and tablecloths from weavers in Stockholm, which assured those weavers of financial support. Followed by the construction of the first Swedish weaving loom in 1832 by Johan Theofron Munktell, Swedish hand-weaving and tapestry weaving were reconstructed to find a market within urban buyers and traders, by the women weaving group called ‘Friends of Handicraft’ founded in 1874.
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R&K Image Studio
NEWThe R&K Image Studio is a new visual workspace designed to present the Rug & Kilim collection with clarity, restraint, and precision — in your space or any space you imagine.
This tool allows you to view, refine, and prepare imagery drawn directly from the pieces in our archive. They can be visualized cleanly, isolated thoughtfully, and adjusted for presentations, proposals, and private viewings, without altering the integrity of the original work.
Modern
Wool
India, New
2'2" X 4'6" (0.66 m x 1.37 m)
$1,150
Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow
Rug & Kilim's Contemporary Pictorial Hooked Runner in Charcoal with Cat Motifs
"Josh and his team have supported my interior design work, as well as my personal projects, for over 20 years. Their inimitable combination of creativity, personal attention, professionalism and joie de vivre are irresistible."
— Claire Fleming Peters, Fleming Peters
