Turkish Hereke Carpet, circa 1900-1920, 2449y

This NW Turkish city carpet is finely and evenly woven, with a short, resilient pile in a repeating small-scale floral all-over pattern on the green field. The palette is light with ...

From the area of Turkey around 40 miles from Istanbul producing the finest of rugs. It is believed that the Imperial looms were established in Hereke, circa 1840. This soft and gentl...

Antique Persian Hereke Carpet, c. 1900 This oversized Hereke carpet from Turkey draws an intricate design of palmettes and cloud bands within a lattice against an indigo field. Turn-of-the-century Hereke pieces such as this often employ a series of designs derived from classical Persian carpets of the sixteenth century. This may at first seem peculiar, as these pieces were woven under imperial Ottoman...

Stunning antique Hereke Carpet (Anatolian). A court manufacturer was set up in the Izmit, Kerman weavers where imported to train the local weavers, therefore Kerman designs predomina...

Four ragged, hooked palmette columns alternate with Yaprak verticals on the dark Turkey red field. The numerous borders are all narrow.

Light colored as most east Anatolian Sivas rugs are, this city carpet features a beige-grounded cartouche, lozenge lattice enclosing multi-flower plants, simple palmettes and equally...