







Antique Tapestry Runner Rug (4' x 9')
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One-of-a-kind rugs, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Free shipping from the USA, delivered in just a few days.
One-of-a-kind rugs, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Free shipping from the USA, delivered in just a few days.
Dimensions: 4'7" x 9'6" (140 cm x 290 cm).
Circa: 1890.
This antique circa 1890 Tapestry rug is a handmade, one-of-a-kind pictorial weaving with a romantic pastoral landscape framed by a towering tree, distant ruins, and finely rendered botanical details. Its softly faded palette of taupe, ivory, blue, and brown gives the composition an elegant old-world character, while the intricate woven imagery and elongated format make it especially distinctive for collectors of European decorative textiles. An ideal statement piece for a hallway, entryway, or office.
Faded neutral tones of taupe, ivory, slate blue, brown, camel, charcoal, and rose, with a taupe field.
Tapestry is a flatweave textile tradition in which the weft threads — which carry the design — do not run continuously across the full width of the cloth but are woven back and forth only as far as each color area requires, producing characteristic vertical "slits" between color areas. This technique allows for extraordinary pictorial complexity and has been used for millennia to create some of the greatest textile art in the world.
The great European tapestry traditions of Flanders (Brussels, Tournai), France (Aubusson, Gobelins), and England (Mortlake) produced monumental narrative tapestries for the walls of palaces and cathedrals. Antique tapestry panels and fragments are now sought as wall art, bringing historical richness and extraordinary visual depth to contemporary interiors.























































