14 x 15 - Navy Blue Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug - 77124

77124 Vintage Turkish
Oushak Konya Inspired Rug with Modernist Art Deco Style 13'10 x 14'09 From
Esmaili Rugs Collection. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug
features an all-over diaper pattern spread across an abrashed ink blue field.
This lavish vintage Oushak rug closely resembles the Seljuk rug designs of the
thirteenth or fourteenth centuries. The Seljuks, a dynasty of Oghuz Turkoman
origins, ruled much of the Middle East from the eleventh to the late thirteenth
century. In 1905, a group of carpets and fragments were discovered in a
forgotten corner of the Alaeddin mosque in Konya, a city in central Anatolia
that was once the capitol of the Seljuk Empire. Referred to by rug scholars as
either the Seljuk Carpets or Konya Carpets, the carpets found in the mosque
are amongst the oldest surviving hand-knotted rugs known to exist. Drawing
inspiration from the fantastic disc