Old Turkish Oriental rug | 277 x 129 cm | Nr. Z-3099

Geometric old Turkish Oriental rug, light red with border

Origin	Turkey
Dimensions	277 cm x 129 cm (= 3.5733 m²)
Construction	hand-knotted
Material	Pile: wool (hand-spun, natural dyes) Weft & Warp: wool
knots per m²2	150.000
Pile height	5mm
Year of manufacture	1930
Colour	Light red, olive green
Edition	one-of-a-kind piece

Origin

The pattern of this Oriental rug is inspired by classic Persian rug designs. This rug was knotted in Turkey. This old Turkish Oriental rug is around 90 years old and a true collector's piece. It comes from the province of Conya, also written Konya, in Turkey.

Pattern

The ornate border forms a wonderful contrast with the centre and shapes the transition at the edge of the rug.

The abstract, geometric composition gives this Turkish Oriental rug its understated elegance. The pattern flatters the design of the room and never draws attention away from the furniture, the decor and the architectural elements. It sits beautifully in any setting and subtly rounds off the furnishings of a room.

The background of this Turkish Oriental rug is light red. The border is worked in olive green, light grey and multicoloured tones.

Condition

This Turkish Oriental rug has a story to tell. It was hand-knotted around 1930. It has been thoroughly cleaned and is in good but only partially restored condition. The edges are damaged in places. The pile is worn in some spots. The fringes could do with a repair. We haven't fully restored this Turkish Oriental rug because we feel it has a special charm just as it is. If that's what you'd like, we'll gladly carry on restoring it for you. We can bring almost any rug back to near-perfect condition.

Material

The technique used to make the materials for this Turkish Oriental rug's pile is over 200 years old. The wool was dyed with natural colours and spun by hand. Dyeing with natural or plant dyes is more complicated, more expensive and more time-consuming than dyeing with chemical colours. For a luminous red, for example, you need around one kilo of ground madder root as dyestuff per kilo of wool. For a strong yellow that isn't too pale, you even need two kilograms of the dyestuff weld per kilo of wool. Spinning the wool is just as time- and labour-intensive. And fewer and fewer people still know how to spin wool by hand.

But the effort is worth it: because it is dyed with natural colours, the high-quality wool keeps its natural lanolin content. Wool that has been naturally dyed and hand-spun creates fascinating, shimmering patterns. The charm of hand-spun wool, with its slight irregularities and natural shades, unfolds as a contrast in modern interiors, but just as well in rooms furnished in a more traditional or country-house style. The foundation (weft and warp threads) of this Turkish Oriental rug is made of new wool.