Antique Turkish Rug Size: 2'9" × 6' Date: 1870s Material: Wool on Wool A small village rug from central or eastern Anatolia with a raw, unpolished character that places it firmly in the tribal end of the Turkish weaving tradition. The format — three stacked octagons on a madder field — is a layout common to several Anatolian tribal groups, used for both floor rugs and utilitarian weavings. Each octagon has a different ground colour: the top in deep navy filled with abstracted architectural or figural devices in gold and ivory, the centre in warm camel with a sparse scatter of small geometric motifs, and the lower in indigo with diamond and hook forms in ivory and orange. The variation in ground colour across the three medallions gives the piece an informal, improvised quality — the sense of a weaver making decisions as she went rather than following a fixed pattern. Small tribal symbols and S-forms populate the madder field between and around the octagons. The border is a simple ivory band with a running angular vine in navy, flanked by narrow guard stripes. The palette — madder, navy, camel, and ivory — is well-preserved, and the wool has the dense, slightly coarse quality typical of Anatolian village production. The top edge shows some original kilim end, which confirms the age and authenticity of the piece. Honest, characterful, and genuinely old.