Inventory Number: 4279

Contemporary Design

Shomik. (by Odegard)

Origin : Knotted by artisans in Nepal from luxurious Tibetan wool.

Size : 5' 10" x 8' 4"

Price :$1950.00

Inventory Number: 3902

Kilim

Origin: Turkey, Van/Hakkari region 
Size: 4'1"X6'10"
Age: 3d quarter (?) 20th c.
Wool weft, cotton warp
Slit tapestry weave with outlining.
Condition: very good

Woven by Kurds in eastern Anatolia,this folk art kilim is part of a centuries-old tradition,
Price: $200.

Inventory Number: 1490

Kilim 
Origin: Eastern Turkey. Lake Van.
Size 2'8"x7'7"
Age: Mid 20th c or earlier.
Wool.
Slit tapestry weave.

This kilim would hang nicely over a bed, couch or desk. It is slightly curved following the way in which the weaver(a Hakkari woman) tied the warp.

Condition: very good

Price: $450

Inventory Number : 3042

Kilim rug
Origin: Turkey
Size: 5'9"X 9'10"
Age: 3d quarter 20th c.
Wool. Slit tapestry weave. Reversible. Ends are macrame.
Condition: one 2"X5" old world repair
A village kilim that would add charm to any interior. The bird-like motif in the border is a traditional reference to the vulture.

Price: SOLD

Inventory Number: 3093

Kilim rug or cover/rug
Origin: The Caucasus. Shirvan (?) area.
Size: 4'10"X9'7"
Age: early 20th c.
Wool.
Slit tapestry weave.

This style of kilim was often used in the rugged and remote Caucasian mountains as the top or cover of an ox or horse cart. Now it should be a beautiful hanging or a rug in a lightly trafficked area.
Condition: very good
Price: $1800.

Inventory Number: 1468

Kilim Rug
Origin: Turkey. Oushak ?
Size: 6'7" X 8'11"'
Age:  approximately 125 - 150 years old
Wool. Tightly spun.
Slit tapestry weave. Reversible..

In this kilim we see the colors of early pile rugs of Oushak, in beautiful natural dyes of ochre, gold and turquoise, greens and white. Possibly woven in Manastir.

A collector's rug to be preserved.
Condition: it should be backed.. 

Published: Valerie Sharaf Justin: "Flat-Woven Rugs of the World" 1980. page 198.

Price: upon request

Inventory Number: 1588

Carpet

Origin: Iran. Kerman area.

 Size:4'5X7'3"'
Age: Mid 19th c.
Wool pile on Cotton oundation (Persian knot).

Vase carpet. A classical design of upright vase and volumes of flowers. Called Kerman Laver. Very charming carpet-cannot be used in trafficked area. Best on a wall.

Condition: Over all wear. No holes.
Price: $650.

Inventory Number: 4312

Jajim/rug/cover, called Mowj
Origin: Iran, Qashqai
Size: 4'6"X6'3"

Age:End of 19th c/early 20th c.
Wool warp. Wool weft.

Twill weave. Made in two parts.
Condition: Excellent.
Beautiful saturated colors from natural dyes.
Probably made for the weaver's dowry and displayed in the black tent. See HALI:Issue 140. P.72
Price on request.

Inventory Number: 4341

Kilim rug 
Origin: Qashqai. Iran
Size: 4'10" X 7'6"
Age: 1st quarter (?) 20th c.
Warp wool. Weft wool. 
Slit tapestry weave

Condition: Very good.

A dynamic kilim; diamonds within amonds outlining medallions - characteristic of the kilims of Qashqai weavers working in summer in high pasture encampments or in their winter quarters.

Price: $2500.

Inventory Number: 1003

Mixed technique kilim
Origin: Shahsavan (?).
Size: 3'10"X7'10" . Made in five panels. Soumak wrapping and brocading on plain weave ground. Wool on cotton ground.

Age: 1st or 2nd quarter, 20th c.
Good Condition

This is a very unusual, perhaps unique, weaving. The radiating "tree of life"s, the repeated rams, and the "wine glass" border are age old symbols of their culture.
Price: $2000

Inventory Number: 3706

Kilim rug
Origin: Iran. SW. Luri tribe?

 Size: 4'10" X 9'3"'
Age: Mid 20th c.
Wool.    Slit tapestry weave

A traditional example of a weaving tradition stretching way back in history..

Condition: Excellent .
Price: $1550. 

Inventory Number: 3817

Kilim cover/rug
Origin: The Caucasus. Kuba area.
Size: 4'11"X9'7"
Age: early 20th c.
Wool.
Slit tapestry weave.
Condition: some small old world repairs.
The white background of the border with its running "dragon" motif dramatically contrasts with the three diamond medallions of the field. A collectible kilim.
Condition: very good
Price: $2400..

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Inventory Number: 3994

Kilim rug
Origin: The Caucasus. Kazak district.

 Size: 6'7"" X 8'4"'
Age: Late 19th -Early 20th c.
Wool.    Slit tapestry weave

Hexagons containing rams' horn motifs.This design is woven by Azeri Turks who relocated to this mountainous area two hundred years. ago.Natural local dyes.

Condition: Excellent .
Price: $2600..

Inventory Number: 3473

Brocaded Rug.

Wool

Origin : Yomud. Turkmen. Afghanistan

Size : 4' 7" x 7'

Price: $750.

Inventory Number: 4004

Kilim rug
Origin: Afghanistan. Maimana

 Size: 6'7 X7'5"'
Age: 3d quarter 20th c.
Wool.    Tapestry weave. Reversible

Woven by Turkmen, Hazara and Uzbeks of the area and marketed in Maimana.

A sturdy rug with a warm pallette and attractive geometric design.

Condition: Excellent .
Price: $1250.

Inventory Number:4347

Kilim rug
Origin: Afghanistan. Maimana.

 Size: 5'X 8'
Age:mid 20th c.
Wool. Natural sheep color warp.   

Tapestry weave, some slit tapestry weave, reversible. Sturdy.

Condition: Excellent .
Price: $850.

Inventory Number: 3436

Needlework rug
Origin: Unknown. ProbablyWesern Europe
Size: 6'1"X9'4"
Age: c.1910.
Wool weft, wool warp
Hand worked in a technique resembling knitting.Canvas backing.
Condition: excellent

Lovely soft coloration not well photographed..

Price: $900

Inventory Number: 3898

Needlework rug
Origin: Portugal
Size: 6'8"X10'
Age: Mid 20th c.
Linen warp. Wool weft. 
Chain stitch embroidery.
Condition: excellent.
Portuguese embroidered carpets were renowned in the 18th and 19th centuries. This charming emroidered rug was probably commissioned by an interior designer for a client. 

Price: $1500.

Inventory Number: 4068

Kilim cover/rug
Called "Bessarabian"
Origin: Moldavia (?) Eastern Europe
Size: 5'5"X9'2"
Age: Dated and signed: 1939
Warp is cotton. Weft is wool.
Double interlocked tapestry weave.

Dark brown or black field with floral motifs and floral borders are characteristic of the kilims of Bessarabia, an area that was once a part of Romania and now appears on no map. These kilims like this were woven in monasteries for the grand houses of the "boyars".

SOLD.

Inventory Number: 4180

Kilim rug
Origin: Bulgaria
Size: 6'7"X9'10"
Age: middle 20th c.
Wool weft, linen warp
Slit tapestry weave. Reversible
Condition: excellent

The elegant design of this kilim was probably based on designs in Western European magazines. Woven in an atelier by village women.

Price: $2500.

Inventory Number: 3392

KILIM
Origin: Pirot. Yugoslavia 
Size: 4'4"X6'11"
Age: Beginning of 20th c.
Wool warp. Wool weft. Natural dyes.
Slit tapestry weave. Reversible.
Condition: excellent.

A similar kilim is in the Museum Ponislavlja in Pirot.  The director of the Museum tells us that the tulip motif is locally called "tongue of the mother-in-law".

This beautiful kilim should grace an important wall.

Price: $1950

Inventory Number: 3535

Kilim rug
Origin: Eastern Europe                                                       
Size: 6'3" X 8'8"'
Age: Mid 20th c.
Wool.    Slit tapestry weave

The fire symbol set on the red field is the mystery of this pretty kilim.  Is the fire symbol Zoroastrian? Masonic? The floral design could have been copied from a 19th c European pattern.

Condition: Excellent .
Price: THIS RUG IS MISSING. ANY INFORMATION WILL BE APPRECIATED. 

Inventory Number: 1668

Rug/Blanket (Hanbel)
Origin: Morocco. Middle Atlas
Size: 5'6" X 9'
Age: Mid-20th c.
Wool . Cotton details
Skip plain weave, a kind of brocading used in North Africa.

Probably made by a weaver of the Zemmour tribe. This hanbel is finely woven.
Condition: Good.

Price: $975.

Inventory Number: 2524

Rug/Blanket (Hanbel)
Origin: Morocco. Middle Atlas
Size: 3'9" X 7'7"
Age: Mid-20th c.
Wool . Cotton warp
Skip plain weave. .

Distinctive coloring of the Beni MGild tribe
Condition: Very Good.

A fine collectible flat-weave.

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Inventory Number: 2476

Rug/Blanket (Hanbel). Zemmour
Origin: Morocco. Middle Atlas
Size: 5'2" X7'.7"
Age: Mid-20th c.
Wool . Cotton details
Skip plain weave.

Condition: Good.

Price: $950.

Inventory Number: 1290

Blanket//rug
Origin: Tunisia
Size: 5'11" X7'4"
Age: 3d quarter 20th c.
Wool . Soft. Undyed sheep colors.
Plain weave.Interlocked tapestry weave.

Condition: Good.

Price: $500.

Inventory Number: 21

Reydeyv 

Origin: Found in the market in Tripoli. Woven by Libyans settled in Tunisia
Size: 5'5"X9'2"
Age: Mid 20th c.
Wool warp..Wool and cotton weft (white is cotton).  Weft substitution weave (a kind of brocading) and dovetailed tapestry weave.                            
Condition: Very good.

A gay "folk art" rug with motifs of gazelles marching across the red/orange, black and ivory bands.
Sturdy for floor use or a vivid hanging.

Price: $900.

Inventory Number: 1285

Kilim rug (Bisat)
Origin: Egypt. Village near Cairo.
Size: 5'6" X 7'4"'
Age: 1930s.
Wool weft, Cotton warp..
Slit tapestry weave.                                                          
Condition: Good.Small repairs.

An art deco design, perhaps copied from a magazine of the period.  Bisat is the local name for traditional flat-weaves woven in villages on the Nile near Cairo.

Published in"FLAT-WOVEN RUGS OF THE WORLD" by Valerie Sharaf Justin.Van Nostrand Reinhold.1980.  See page 198.
Price: $900.

Inventory Number: 15
Tent divider (hamel)
Origin: Saudi Arabia.
Size: 6'4" X 8'
Age: 2nd or 3d quarter, 20th c.
Wool  warp and weft..
Warp-faced plain weave bands and warp substitution weave bands; woven separately, sewn together off the loom. .

This heavy weaving is made to be used as a divider between the womens' and the  mens' section of the black tent of the Bedouins.

Price: $1050.

Inventory Number: 20

Rug (Oudref)
Origin: Tunisia
Size: 4'6" X 6'
Age: Mid 20th c.
Wool.
Plain weave with weft substitution, a brocading technique.

Woven in an oasis (oudref) in the Tunisian desert "in each brown-earth dwelling one or more looms are to be found..the women work at them without let up in all seasons, carding, spinning, weaving from sunrise to sunset.  "
Condition: very good
Price: $975.

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Inventory Number: 2240

Blanket
Origin: Rio Grande area. SW United States.
Size: 4'6"X6'3"
Age: 1880-1900.
Handspun wool warp and weft.
Banded plain weave with extra center warps, a defiining feature.
Condition: Very good.
Woven in the Spanish Colonial culture, Rio Grande blankets were originally used as wearing blankets during the day and for bedding at night. A collectible textile.

Price: $1350.

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Inventory Number: 3651

Pictorial rug
Origin: Mexico, D.F. (Federal District)
Size: 5'4"X9'
Age: Probably 1930s.
Wool weft.

Dovetailed tapestry weave.
Condition: very good.
This fascinating rug documents Mayan culture. Among the mythic and historic symbols, the god TONATIUH appears in several blocs.

Price: $1050

Inventory Number: 3213

Blanket/rug. Navajo
Origin: Southwestern United States
Size: 4'X6'
Age:  c. 1890..
Native wool. undyed. hand spun

This weaving is as soft and flexible as a wearing blanket and as rugged as a rug. The stark geometry reflects the landscape of the reservation as experienced by the woman weaver.

Price:$ 975.

Inventory Number: 3250

Coverlet / RagRug
Origin: Canada

Size: 5'X710"'
Age:  c. 1900..
Made in two parts. One central seam

Good condition.

Price:$ 350.