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Vintage

Cotton

NO. C-7113

India

9'2" X 11'9" (2.79 m x 3.58 m)

$10,560

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Vintage Dhurrie Rug in Indigo Blue Tones with Natural Abrash, from Rug & Kilim

This 9x12 rug is a rare vintage Dhurrie rug from an exciting new mid-century curation by Rug & Kilim. Handwoven in a cotton flatweave, it originates from India circa 1950-1960, and enjoys a deep saturated blue field with a natural abrash. On the Design: Admirers of the craft will note this piece as a collectible—among few large-size Indian Dhurries from this period. It hosts an indigo blue field which hosts a natural and tasteful abrash that’s inherent to its many beauties—one of the irreplaceable beauties of classics and part of the subtle beauty to this otherwise comfortable, simple piece. It’s a work of warm, welcoming presence and smart balance alike, with vast design applications today. Condition: This vintage Dhurrie Kilim further enjoys good condition for its age and origin.

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Measurements: 9'2" x 11'9" ( 2.79 m x 3.58 m )
Categories: Vintage
Classification: Dhurrie, Kilim/Flat Weave, Solid/Stripes
Material: Cotton
Origin: India
SKU: C-7113

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Stories from the Vintage Collection

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

September 9, 2026

On the Changing Nature of Money, and a Quiet Shift in How the World’s Great Collections Are Built

As seen in Milieu Magazine’s Summer 2025 Issue, designed by Studio Meghan Eisenbergh, features an antique Amritsar rug from Rug & Kilim’s collection.View More >> Something has changed in the psychology of collecting, and it has changed quietly. For most of the modern era, the serious collector acquired for love, for scholarship, for the pleasure of living with beautiful things, and the question of value, while never absent, sat politely in the background. That arrangement has quietly inverted. Across the last two years, industry surveys have recorded a striking figure: the share of high-net-worth collectors intending to sell from their holdings has fallen from more than half to roughly a quarter. The collector of this moment is not looking to liquidate. They are looking to hold. And they are increasingly treating the objects they acquire not as expenditures but as architecture, as a considered, diversified structure of wealth that also happens to be beautiful.

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June 29, 2026

Vintage Andean Frazada Kilim and the Three Thousand Years of Living Memory Held in Its Weave

The most sophisticated rooms in America are being furnished, increasingly, with an object its makers never intended to sell. The Andean frazada, a handwoven kilim produced for centuries in the high villages of Peru and Bolivia for one reason only, to survive the cold, has become one of the most quietly coveted textiles in contemporary design. Collectors who could specify anything are choosing these. The reason has nothing to do with trend, and everything to do with what a frazada actually is. To understand a frazada, you must first understand the altitude. Above four thousand meters in the Andes, higher than any peak in the contiguous United States, in air so thin that newcomers move slowly and sleep poorly for days, the cold is not a season. It is a constant. It arrives every night, regardless of the calendar, and it has arrived every night for as long as people have lived in these mountains. The frazada was the answer to that cold: a thick, dense, hand-woven wool blanket, made not for sale, not for export, not for the floors of distant apartments, but for survival. For warmth. For the bed of a family that would not otherwise make it through the dark.

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May 13, 2026

The Rug That Made the Room: Ten Interiors Where the Carpet Was the Only Decision That Mattered

Every serious designer knows the moment. You walk into a room that is not yet finished; the furniture placed but provisional, the walls painted but unconvinced, the light doing its best with what it has been given and something stops you. Not the chandelier. Not the art. The floor. A carpet lies there with the particular authority of an object that has already decided what the room is going to be, and is waiting, with complete patience, for everything else to catch up. The furniture will be chosen in response to it. The color of the walls will be negotiated against it. The art will be hung at a height that the carpet's scale has already determined. The room, in the most literal sense, begins underfoot.

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July 28, 2025

How are Dhurries Becoming the Sustainable Statement Pieces in High-End Interior Design?

True refinement no longer announces itself through opulence—it is embedded in texture, form, and the story beneath the surface. Among the world’s most enduring yet misunderstood textiles, the dhurrie stands apart as an exemplar in restraint, geometry, and cultural transmission. Woven entirely by hand on horizontal looms, these flatwoven masterpieces predate dynasties, outlast empires, and quietly inhabit the palaces of Rajasthan, the salons of Lutyens’ Delhi, and the barefoot minimalism of Belgian farmhouses. For centuries, the dhurrie has served as both artifact and architecture. It reemerges as a sovereign symbol of restraint, heritage, and functional poetry.

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October 31, 2024

Cobalt Blue: The 2025 Color of the Year

In a decisive shift from the subdued palettes that have dominated recent years, Cobalt Blue emerges as 2025's defining color, marking a return to bold chromatic statements in luxury interiors. This announcement follows several major debuts at Milan's Salone del Mobile and Paris Déco Off, where leading houses from Pierre Frey to Dedar showcased collections heavily anchored in deep, saturated blues. Historically, this powerful color traces its legacy to lapis lazuli—once more precious than gold itself. Medieval artists reserved this hue for their most important commissions, particularly in religious masterpieces where it adorned the Virgin Mary's robes. The color's prestige carried through to the courts of Europe, where it became synonymous with both temporal and spiritual power.

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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

Cotton

NO. C-7113

India

9'2" X 11'9" (2.79 m x 3.58 m)

$10,560

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Vintage Dhurrie Rug in Indigo Blue Tones with Natural Abrash, from 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: 9'2" x 11'9" ( 2.79 m x 3.58 m )
Categories: Vintage
Classification: Dhurrie, Kilim/Flat Weave, Solid/Stripes
Material: Cotton
Origin: India
SKU: C-7113

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Stories from the Vintage Collection

On the Changing Nature of Money, and a Quiet Shift in How the World’s Great Collections Are Built

Vintage Andean Frazada Kilim and the Three Thousand Years of Living Memory Held in Its Weave

The Rug That Made the Room: Ten Interiors Where the Carpet Was the Only Decision That Mattered

How are Dhurries Becoming the Sustainable Statement Pieces in High-End Interior Design?

Cobalt Blue: The 2025 Color of the Year

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

R&K Image Studio

Vintage Dhurrie Rug in Indigo Blue Tones with Natural Abrash, from Rug & Kilim

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