Rugs by Price
Vintage Rugs by Price
Every rug here is hand-knotted, one of a kind, inspected and professionally cleaned, at every price. What changes across the tiers is size, fineness and rarity.
Four bands, one standard
Under $500
Smaller formats and honest workhorses.
$500 – $1,000
The sweet spot for a first serious rug.
$1,000 – $2,000
Larger formats and finer weaves.
Over $2,000
Room-defining pieces, oversized or exceptional.
What actually drives the price of a vintage rug
Rug pricing looks opaque from the outside, but it comes down to a handful of things, and none of them is a brand name.
Size
The dominant factor. A 9×12 contains roughly three times the wool and three times the knotting hours of a 5×8, and oversized vintage pieces in sound condition are genuinely scarce, because most were worn out where they were made.
Knot density and fineness
A finely knotted town rug from Tabriz or Nain represents far more hours at the loom than a coarser village weave, and holds much finer drawing as a result. Neither is better; they are different things to want.
Condition
Pile depth, sound edges and ends, and the extent of any restoration. A rug with even, honest wear is worth considerably more than one with holes or heavy reweaving, and we disclose both.
Wool and dye quality
Good wool ages into a depth and sheen that a machine-made rug never reaches. You can often see it in the sheen long before you can articulate it.
Buying well at any level
An honest thing to say: a rug from our entry band is not a compromised version of a top-band one. It is usually a smaller format, a coarser village weave, or a piece with more visible age, all of which are legitimate things to want. Village rugs have a directness and a confidence in their drawing that finer town rugs sometimes lack entirely.
What does not change with price is that every rug here is hand-knotted, one of a kind, inspected, professionally cleaned, and shipped fully insured, free in the US and Canada. There is no tier at which you stop getting that.
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