Wool
Sweden
3'2" X 4'11" (0.97 m x 1.50 m)
Available: Shipping As Soon As Tomorrow
Vintage Swedish Rug with Polychromatic Geometric Pattern | Rug & Kilim
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- Measurements: 3'2" x 4'11" ( 0.97 m x 1.50 m )
- Categories: Vintage
- Classification: Classic/Traditional, Geometric, Shag/High Pile, Swedish/Scandinavian
- Material: Wool
- Origin: Sweden
- SKU: 33962
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Stories from the Vintage Collection
Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.
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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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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The Total Art: Vienna’s Century, From the Gold Frieze to the Contemporary Era
In the dining room of a banker's house in Brussels there is a wall of gold. Klimt designed it; the Stoclet Frieze, a tree of life branching across marble and enamel and coral, a dancer on one side and an embracing couple on the other, the couple a direct rehearsal for the painting the whole world would later know as The Kiss. But to stand in that room, were one ever permitted to, is to understand that the frieze is not the point of it. The point is that the frieze, the marble, the cutlery, the door handles, and the carpet underfoot were all conceived as a single object by a single mind. The Palais Stoclet, built by Josef Hoffmann between 1905 and 1911 and now sealed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is the most complete surviving statement of the idea that organised an entire Viennese century: the Gesamtkunstwerk, the total work of art, in which nothing; not the spoon, not the dress, not the floor, ranks below the painting on the wall.
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Swedish Rya Rugs in Art, Architecture, and Culture: The High Art of Scandinavian Textiles
There are moments in design history when an object transcends its origins and becomes elemental — a distilled form of cultural continuity, tactile intelligence, and silent authorship. The Swedish Rya rug is one such object. At once sculptural and symbolic, utilitarian and conceptual, it occupies a singular position at the intersection of textile art, Nordic heritage, and the 20th-century design canon. Rya rugs — with their distinctive long pile, deep textural vocabulary, and chromatic abstraction — are no longer merely archival textiles. They are now being recontextualized by leading curators, collectors, and architects as fine art pieces, ceremonial heirlooms, and textural interventions in high-design interiors.
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Viola Gråsten and the Rewilding of Scandinavian Rugs and Tapestries
Viola Gråsten, dress and fabric in “Oomph” pattern produced by NK Textilekammare, designed 1952, purple and grey-green colors. These pieces loaned by Anna Lindqvist to the Malmö museum in May 2016. Viola Gråsten’s flatweaves did not merely complement the Nordic room — they destabilized it. With wild color harmonies and asymmetric abstractions, she injected emotional modernism into a design language long defined by balance and modesty. What unfolded was not just a shift in aesthetic, but a cultural dissonance — one woven in wool, but felt in the bones. In a sunlit Stockholm apartment, filtered light falls across a jagged field of magentas, ochres, and smoky teals. A Gråsten flatweave — untamed in pattern, unrepentant in color — cuts across the pale serenity of ashwood floors and clean-lined furniture. It hums, not in defiance, but in revelation.
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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
Sweden
3'2" X 4'11" (0.97 m x 1.50 m)
$4,500
Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow
Vintage Swedish Rug with Polychromatic Geometric Pattern | 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
- Measurements: 3'2" x 4'11" ( 0.97 m x 1.50 m )
- Categories: Vintage
- Classification: Classic/Traditional, Geometric, Shag/High Pile, Swedish/Scandinavian
- Material: Wool
- Origin: Sweden
- SKU: 33962
