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Our very beautiful kilim and Oriental rug pillows have been chosen by editors of home magazines since the 1970s. Lois Long in the New Yorker said "your grandchildren will be proud to have them". Our Flemish and French antique tapestry pillows are superb, look at the three numbered #437375.

PILLOWS - TURKEY

 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4351-1

Antique kilim pillow.
Origin: Anatolia. Turkey
Size: 21"X 23"
Age: late 19th/early 20th c.
Wool. Canvas baack. Down filled.
Tapestry weave. 

This is the front of a finely woven "khorjin" saddle bag.  The dyes are rich natural hues. This would grace the floor in front of a hearth or decorate a couch.

Price: $600.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4351-2

Kilim mafrash pillow
Origin: Anatolia, Turkey
Size: 22"X 23"
Age: Late 19th/early 20th c.
Tapestry weave and continuous brocading front. Canvas back. Down filled.

This was the reverse side of the "khorjin" seen in 4351-1.It was used for storing special possessions while on migration or in the black tent. It is a very beautiful weaving that brings a memory  of folk art with it.

Price: $500.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4101A&B

Turkish Kilim Pillows

Size A: 18 X 22"
Size B: 12 X 20"

These chic kilim pillows from Karapirnar in Central Anatolia will never be out of fashion.

Price A: $325 S O L D

Price B: $300  Can be purchased separately.




 

Pillowry Inventory #4101C

Origin: Karapinar,Turkey

19"X22"

Price: $325. S O L D




 

Pillowry Inventory #4101E

Origin: Karapinar,Turkey

15"X20"

Price $300.

One more in this group is 11"X23" $300.




 

Pillowry Inventory #4100G

Kilim pillow, Anatolia,Turkey

13"X19".

Wool. Tapestry weave.

Price: $270.



PILLOWS - IRAN

 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 1365. 

Antique Indo-Isfahan rug pillow
Origin: Persia..
Size: 12"X 15"
Age: 17th c.
Knotted wool pile. Velvet back. Down filled.

From a fragment of a classic Indo-Isfahan carpet.This captures the  elegance of a significant  period carpet. It will enrich any environment.
Condition: Worn and wonderful.
Price: $550.S O L D




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 1001 

Mafrash pillow
Origin: NW Iran.
Size: 18"X 19"
Age: Early 20th c.
Wool.Hand woven. Canvas back.

This is the reverse of a figured mafrash kilim  from the Shahsavan people. Although it was woven in the early 20th century in a traditional culture, it has a stark modern design.
Price: $125.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4344 

Mafrash pillow
Origin: NW Iran.
Size: 18"X 19"
Age: Early 20th c.
Wool.Hand woven. Canvas back. 

These richly saturated colors are from natural dye materials. The face of the pillow, in soumac technique, was part of a mafrash woven by a Shahsavan woman, probably for her dowry.
PRICE;: $250.


PILLOWS: THE CAUCASUS

 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 1149 

Mafrash soumak pillow
Origin: Shahsavan
Size: 11" x 15"


From a Shahsavan bag panel. Soumak technique. Wool. Canvas back
PRICE;: $180.

 

 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 1002 

Mafrash pillow
Origin: NW Iran.
Size: 18"X 19"
Age: Midy 20th c.
Wool.Hand woven. Canvas back.

This is the reverse of a mafrash kilim  from the Shahsavan people. Lovely shades ofundyed sheeps' wool.
Price: $100.


PILLOWS - CENTRAL ASIA

 

# 1147 Turkmen rug pillow. 12"X16"

Origin: Turkmenistan. late 19th c.

Natural dyes.Wool. Hand-knotted pile. Velvet back.

Price: $180.

 

 

#1151 Turkmen rug pillow.. 12"X15"

Origin: Turkmenistan. late 19th c.

Wool. Natural dyes. Hand-knotted pile. Velvet back

Price: $180.


PILLOWS - EUROPE


 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4373

Antique tapestry pillow.
Origin: Flemish
Size: 22"X 23"
Age: Mid 17th c. (c. 1650)
Wool. Velvet back. English tassel trim. Down filled.
Tapestry weave. Hand woven on a "basse-lisse" horizontal loom.

Many great tapestries survive only in fragmentary condition. And this fragment is definitely from a great tapestry, probably part of the wide border of a tapestry that hung in a grand hall. The fruit and the fauna in rich hues will give you pleasure each time you pass their way. This is one of a group of three; they can be purchased separately.
Condition: excellent
Price: $2550 each.



 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4374

Antique tapestry pillow.
Origin: Flemish
Size: 22"X 23"
Age: Mid 17th c. (c. 1650)
Wool. Velvet back. English tassel trim. Down filled.
Tapestry weave. Hand woven on a "basse-lisse" horizontal loom.

Many great tapestries survive only in fragmentary condition. And this fragment is definitely from a great tapestry, probably part of the wide border of a tapestry that hung in a grand hall. The fruit and the fauna in rich hues will give you pleasure each time you pass their way. This is one of a group of three; they can be purchased separately.
Condition: excellent
Price: $2550 each.



 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4375

Antique tapestry pillow.
Origin: Flemish
Size: 22"X 23"
Age: Mid 17th c. (c. 1650)
Wool. Velvet back. English tassel trim. Down filled.
Tapestry weave. Hand woven on a "basse-lisse" horizontal loom.

Many great tapestries survive only in fragmentary condition. And this fragment is definitely from a great tapestry, probably part of the wide border of a tapestry that hung in a grand hall. The fruit and the fauna in rich hues will give you pleasure each time you pass their way. This is one of a group of three; they can be purchased separately.
Condition: excellent
Price: $2550 each.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4356

Michelangelo Pillow
Origin: Italy
Size: 20"X20"
Age: New
Velvet. Cotton. Down filled.
Image is silk screen transfer.

Price: $480



 

 


Pillowry Inventory Number: 4235
Tapestry and velvet pillow
Origin: France.
Size: 18"X 18"
Age: Early 20th c.
Hand woven tapestry panel inset in velvet.

The antique tapestry panel is surrounded by early trim and the pillow is finished with variegated ball fringe.

Price: $375.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4236.

Antqieu tapestry and velvet pillow
Origin: France..
Size: 17"X 18"
Age: Tapestry - 10th c..
Tapestry woven panels in velvet surrouds. 

Price: $375.


 

 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4357. 

Michelangelo pillow
Origin: Italy.
Size: 20"X20"
Age: New.
Image is silkscreen. Velvet. Down filled.

A handsome head painted by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. This head, an "ignuti" was one of a group forming the corners of a frieze. .

Price: $480.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4316&4315. 

Antique Tapestry pillow
Origin: Brussels.
Size: 14"X 15"
Age: 17th c. (300 years old)
Tapestry weave.Woven on a "low warp loom". Velvet backs. Down filled.

From a fragment of a rare Brussels tapestry depicting a medieval battle scene. This is from a section called "trophies of war".

PRICE: $975.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 3648 

Antique Tapestry pillow
Origin: France. Aubusson.
Size: 24" X 26""
Age: 1st quarter 19th c..
Wool.Woven rep back. Down filled.
Condition: Excellent

 The flat-woven carpets of Aubusson were documented from the middle 1700s.This is a beautiful fragment from one of the Napoleonic "Empire" period.

Price: $1900.

The small pillow in the photo is 7"X15" Price: $150. 




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 3811.8 

Needlepoint pillow

late 19th c.

size: 13"X17"

PRICE: $180.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 3475

Antique Needlework pillow
Origin: France.

Size: 20" X 18 1/2""
Age:19th c..
Wool.Antique linen.
Condition: Excellent

This pillow is a panel from a French needlework carpet, very stylish in the late nineteenth  century during the art nouveau period.

Price: $800.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 4339 

Antique Silk Brocade pillows

Size: 19 X 19""
Silk brocade with brocade backs. These pillows are more blue than gray as this photo show.

Price: $400 each.  Available separately.



PILLOWS - WESTERN HEMISPHERE

 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 1694.

Navajo mat pillow
Origin: Navajo reservation; SW United States.
Size: 23"X 26"
Age: Early 20th c.
Hand spun wool. Back is cotton canvas.
Single interlocking tapestry weave.
Browns and ivory are undyed sheep colors.

This is not a fragment but a complete mat, woven by a Navajo woman for the trading post, probably for sale to a cowboy.
Condition:some red has run onto background.
Price: $175.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 2684.

Navajo mat pillow
Origin: Navajo reservation. SW United States.
Size: 18"X 19"
Age: Early 20th c.
Hand spun wool from native sheep Tapestry weave.

The stacked triangle forming the medallion on this weaving is a powerful symbol in Navajo weaving.
Condition: Some orange has run onto background.
Price: $150.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 2950

Pillow face.NAVAJO.

Size: 1'8"X1'7"

Germantown wool. c. 1890.

Price: $250.




 

Pillowry Inventory Number: 2681

NAVAJO pillow face

Size: 1'5"X 1'7""

Germantown wool. c.1890

Price: $190.