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Fine Antique Silk Rugs & Carpets & Textiles

Carpets made in silk are the most luxurious productions of their kind. Silk culture and silk textile production began in China, although silk rugs are unattested there until the seventeenth century. Silk textile manufacture was well established in Persia by the Sassanian Period (third to seventh centuries). Consequently, it would have been possible for the Persians of this period or those of Early Islamic times to have adapted silk to rug production. But it is so far unclear whether China or the Islamic Orient initiated the manufacture of silk carpets.

At any rate, the earliest extant all silk carpets are in fact Persian pieces of the Safavid Period. Eventually rugs with all or part silk construction came to be made in virtually all Oriental rug-producing regions - Persia, Turkey, Turkestan, Tibet, and China. In the finest examples, not only the pile but even the foundation (wefts and warp fringes) are made of silk. Silk rugs are luxurious not only because of the fine texture and the reflective, luminous properties of the pile, but also because of the quality of their color. Silk allows the dyes to achieve a richness and intensity that can never be matched by even the finest wool.

 

Antique Chinese Oriental Carpets 40494

Style: Chinese
Origin: China
Size: 2 X 2.01

This sumptuous antique Oriental silk textile from China has an exquisitely drawn classical Chinese design of staggered lotus palmettes, vines and


Antique Ottoman Embroidery Turkish Rug 41494

Style: Ottoman Embroydery
Origin: Turkey
Size: 2.02 X 2.06

This lush antique Ottoman Embroidery from Turkey has a complex, closely arrayed  design of flowerheads.


Antique Kaitag Rug 40445

Style: Kaitag
Origin: Caucasus
Size: 2.01 X 2.11

This splendidly graphic antique Kaitag embroidery from the Caucasus has a grande circular medallion of concentric borders.

Antique Tabriz Persian Rug 2471

Style: Tabriz
Origin: Persia
Size: 1.09 X 2.11

This unique decorative antique Tabriz Persian carpet is hand-made from fine wool in Persia.


Antique Azerbaijan Caucasian Rug 3245

Style: Azerbaijan
Origin: Caucasus
Size: 2.04 X 3.09

This magnificent antique Oriental Azerbaijan embroidery from the Caucasus has a star medallion sprouting diagonal rams horns and palmettes derived classical Persian rug designs.


Antique Ottoman Embroidery Turkish Rug 41488

Style: Ottoman Embroydery
Origin: Turkey
Size: 3.11 X 4.02

This lavish antique Ottoman embroidery from Turkey has a dynamic design of swaying flowers in brilliant silk.


Antique Ottoman Embroidery Turkish Rug 8053

Style: Ottoman Embroydery
Origin: Turkey
Size: 3.03 X 4.04

This boldly graphic antique Ottoman embroidery has monumental design of stylized flowerheads.


Antique Esfahan Persian Rug 8001

Style: Esfahan
Origin: Persia
Size: 3.07 X 5.00

This sumptuous antique Oriental Isfahan carpet from Persia has an allover compartment design of ogival medallions and concave pentagons in soft shades of pale rose, salmon, gray, and


Antique Kayseri Turkish Rug 1288

Style: Kayseri
Origin: Turkey
Size: 3.08 X 5.08

This lovely little antique Oriental silk Kayseri rug from Turkey has a design of small shrubs enclosed by an undulating serrated leaf trellis repeating across the delicate sandy saffron


Antique Tabriz Persian Rug 41844

Style: Tabriz
Origin: Persia
Size: 4.04 X 5.08

This unique decorative antique Tabriz Persian carpet is hand-made from fine wool in Persia.


Antique Oushak Turkish Rug 1963

Style: Oushak
Origin: Turkey
Size: 4.01 X 5.11

Circa 1900 - This lovely antique Oushak / Ushak is the descendant of classical Ottoman Turkish double niche columnar prayer rugs.


Antique Heriz Serapi Persian Rugs 40995

Style: Heriz-Serapi
Origin: Persia
Size: 4.04 X 6.00

This sumptuous little antique Oriental silk Fereghan carpet is a masterpiece of Persian weaving with its exceptionally fine Herati design.


Antique Turkish Rug 41346

Style: Turkish
Origin: Turkey
Size: 4.02 X 6.00

Antique Silk Kayseri Rug from Eastern Central Turkey, circa 1900


Antique Bidjar Persian Rug 8002

Style: Bidjar
Origin: Persia
Size: 4.08 X 6.03

This opulent antique Oriental Bijar rug from Persia has a jewel-like design of classical  medallions and arabesques.


Antique Kashan Persian Rug 3242

Style: Kashan
Origin: Persia
Size: 4.05 X 6.03

This exquisite antique Oriental Kashan rug from Persia is graced with a lush profusion of flowering vines reminiscent of the best Kashmir shawls.


Antique Heriz Serapi Persian Rugs 40829

Style: Heriz-Serapi
Origin: Persia
Size: 4.09 X 6.03

This sumptuously elegant antique Oriental Serapi carpet from Persia has an allover Mina Khani pattern surrounding a small central quatrefoil medallion.

Antique Kashan Persian Rug 40943

Style: Kashan
Origin: Persia
Size: 4.04 X 6.08

This unique decorative antique Kashan Persian carpet is hand-made from silk, wool and metallic thread.


Antique Polonaise Persian Rug 40787

Style: Polonaise
Origin: Persia
Size: 4.11 X 6.11

Antique Silk Polonaise Rug from Persia, seventeenth century


Antique Dalmatic European Rug 40450

Style: Dalmatik
Origin: Europe
Size: 4 X 7.00

This incomparably lovely antique Dalmatic or liturgical vestment from the hapsburg Period in Austria has a graceful design of naturalistic foliage sprawling gently across an ivory


Antique Kerman Persian Rug 2991

Style: Kerman
Origin: Persia
Size: 4.09 X 8.01

This antique Kerman carpet by the great master Aboul Ghasem Kermani is nothing less than extravagant in its design and coloration.


Antique Turkish Rug 41346

Style: Turkish
Origin: Turkey
Size: 4.02 X 6.00

Antique Silk Kayseri Rug from Eastern Central Turkey, circa 1900


Antique Yarkand Oriental Rugs 2975

Style: Yarkand
Origin: East Turkestan
Size: 3.07 X 8.11

This unique decorative Antique Yarkand Silk Saph carpet is hand-made in East Turkestan.


Antique Khotan Oriental Carpets 40613

Style: Khotan
Origin: East Turkestan
Size: 4.08 X 9.07

This unique decorative antique Khotan Oriental carpet is hand-made in East Turkestan.


Antique Heriz Serapi Persian Rugs 3087

Style: Heriz-Serapi
Origin: Persia
Size: 6.08 X 9.11

This elegant all silk antique Oriental Heriz carpet from Persia has a delicate filigree design of oval medallions and eight-pointed stars and a beautiful vine scroll border.


Antique Indian Oriental Rug 3278

Style: Indian
Origin: India
Size: 8.08 X 11.01

On this sumptuous antique Oriental Indian carpet a central medallion outlined in blue is surrounded by ever larger undulating forms.


Antique Hereke Turkish Rug 41567

Style: Hereke
Origin: Turkey
Size: 9 X 13.02

This stunning antique Oriental Hereke carpet from Turkey presents us with a decorative image of paradise rendered as a centralized pattern of whispy vines.

Antique Tabriz Persian Rug 7991

Style: Tabriz
Origin: Persia
Size: 10.07 X 14.05

This unique decorative antique Tabriz Persian carpet is hand-made from fine Silk in Persia.


Antique Heriz Serapi Persian Rugs 7996

Style: Heriz-Serapi
Origin: Persia
Size: 12 X 18.06

This opulent antique Oriental silk Heriz carpet from Persia has lush arabesque interlacing tendrils swirling across the ivory ground.