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Vintage

Wool

NO. 27291

3'10" X 6'10" (1.17 m x 2.08 m)

$3,300

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Vintage Persian rug in Beige with Horse Pictorials by Rug & Kilim

This vintage 4x7 Persian rug is a rare tribal piece, hand-knotted in wool circa 1950-1960. The design favors a beige field that hosts three horse pictorials in rust and silver-gray with black accents. It’s a collectible piece of primitivist folk art with the old-world charm nomadic Persian rugs exemplify. This mid-century pictorial rug is furthermore in good condition for its age and origin. It’s ready for the floor, and its versatile size offers vast possibilities in wall-hanging projects as well.

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Measurements: 3'10" x 6'10" ( 1.17 m x 2.08 m )
Categories: Vintage
Classification: Classic/Traditional, Pictorial, Tribal
Material: Wool
SKU: 27291

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September 23, 2026

What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs

Every great rug begins long before the loom. It begins on the animal, in the place, in the particular conditions that made the fiber what it is. And among all the wools that have ever been spun into a carpet, few can rival the wool of the Tibetan highlands, a material whose superiority is not a matter of marketing but of altitude, climate, and the unhurried logic of the natural world. The sheep of the Tibetan plateau live at elevations that would defeat most living things, thin air, brutal cold, a growing season measured against a sky closer than it has any right to be. Nature's answer to that severity is the fleece. To survive the plateau, the animal must grow a wool of exceptional density and, crucially, of exceptional lanolin content; the natural oil that coats each fiber, repels water, resists soil, and lends the finished yarn a luster and resilience that lowland wools cannot approach. What is hardship for the animal is a gift to the weaver.

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September 3, 2026

The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation

Antique 17th Century French Beauvais Tapestry with Floral Vase - Rug & Kilim, NO. 36829 We had a tapestry acquisition unfolding itself in the studio a while ago. Josh and the team just stood there, silently admiring the way the light caught the threads. This was the Antique French Beauvais Tapestry (SKU 36829). It was handwoven in wool, with natural silk accents, circa 1700. When you look at something like that, you do not just see fabric. What you see is the garden of wool and dreams. The precise interlacing of the wefts gives a picture of a gigantic floral vase placed atop an architectural entablature. The botanical imagery is absolutely mesmerizing. There is so much wealth and mystery to it all.

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June 8, 2026

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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May 15, 2026

Savonnerie, Aubusson, Gobelins: The Three Ateliers That Defined What Europe Believed a Rug Could Be

In the final years of the sixteenth century, the treasury of France was hemorrhaging. Not to war alone though there had been enough of that but to the East. French silver was flowing steadily toward Persia and the Levant in exchange for knotted-pile carpets, objects of such refinement and such authority that no European workshop had yet produced anything capable of competing with them. Henri IV, who had survived the Wars of Religion and the bankruptcy of a kingdom to sit on the French throne, was not a man inclined to accept a problem he could solve. He installed Pierre Dupont — weaver, entrepreneur, and the most technically accomplished carpet-maker in France in the galleries of the Louvre itself, in workshops beneath the palace's own roof, with a single instruction: make something that does not require us to send money to Persia.

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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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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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Vintage

Wool

NO. 27291

3'10" X 6'10" (1.17 m x 2.08 m)

$3,300

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Vintage Persian rug in Beige with Horse Pictorials by Rug & Kilim

"Rug & Kilim is one of our favorite sources when looking for quality handmade rugs. Their team go above and beyond to find &/or make the rugs that fit our clients needs as well as their dreams."

— Becca Ford, Emily Lindberg Design

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Specifications:

Measurements: 3'10" x 6'10" ( 1.17 m x 2.08 m )
Categories: Vintage
Classification: Classic/Traditional, Pictorial, Tribal
Material: Wool
SKU: 27291

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Stories from the Vintage Collection

What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs

The Evolution of Floral Motifs in Antique Rugs and Kilims: Mapping the Pomegranate, Tulip, and Carnation

Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry Artists’ Series: In Dialogue with Elizabeth Chester

Savonnerie, Aubusson, Gobelins: The Three Ateliers That Defined What Europe Believed a Rug Could Be

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

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

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