Traditional Romanian Carpets

The turkish word kilim denotes a pileless textile produced by a flat weaving technique.

Traditional romanian carpets.

In the past wall carpets produced by weavers in communities of romania and the republic of moldova were used not only as decorative features and sources of insulation but also as part of a bride s dowry. Irene on nov 21 2019 5 out of 5 stars. Although this name has nothing to do with the actual location that the rug was produced all grades are produced in the traditional persian design. The most popular color.

Traditional romanian woven carpets and rugs with colorful motifs in suceava county bucovina. 6 x 9 hand knotted romanian faraghan traditional wool oriental area rug beige. Category late 19th century bessarabian antique romanian rugs and carpets. The most common romanian rugs material is wool.

This is particularly true of romania where the word for carpet is scoarta. These romanian rugs that are usually refereed to as bessarabian kilim rugs were traditionally made as gifts for family members and were often passed down through generations. Very rare and beautiful antique apron. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite.

Romanian 9x12 oriental area rug wool rust navy blue very. Fast delivery lots of background information. Antique bessarabian romanian traditional carpet kilim two sided wool rug traditional eastern european kilim rug code 100. This traditional handwoven romanian bessarabian rug has an overall beige field of four by five delicate stylized floral bouquets in a subtle paired stripe border.

Romanian carpets from oltenia bear a wide variety of motifs prominent among them horses and riders roosters dolls cuckoos stags and other various symbols. Romanian rugs use cotton or woolen foundations except for moldova rugs that use mercerized cotton. Hemp or cotton is used for the warp and wool for the weft painted in a few predominant colors usually deep blue pastel green yellow burgundy red. Well you re in luck because here they come.

Each of our romanian traditional rugs can be considered an original creation with vegetal and animal motifs combined with old traditional geometrical patterns of flat weave rugs from the south oltenia region. Romanian rug makers use the kilim technique. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about romanian rugs. When romania produces a rug it is given a grade which is named after a town river or mountain.

There are 511 romanian rugs for sale on etsy and they cost 389 11 on average. Made in 3 main regional traditions oltenia moldova and maramures these rugs represent a beautiful.