2 x 12 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug 77279

77279 Vintage Turkish Oushak Rug Runner, 02'06 x 11'07.

Like the echo of a village prayer cast into the mountains at dusk, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug runner carries with it the rhythms of ritual, nature, and ancestral memory. Its long, narrow frame is a ceremonial path woven in ruby red and crimson, its field animated with mirrored hexagonal medallions that pulse like sacred beats along the spine of time. Each medallion bursts forth with stylized botanical flames and branching motifs, anchored by golden blossoms and charcoal guardians that lend the piece both light and gravity.

The composition exudes motion through stillness. Serrated edges of the medallions—rendered in espresso, gray, and pistachio—suggest the rugged silhouette of distant Anatolian ranges, while the fierce diagonals in lemon verbena and saffron-curry speak of energetic transformation. Amuletic ziggurat motifs float along the sides like whispered blessings: signs of strength, fertility, and warding against misfortune. Subtle shifts in rose, brick, and rust add warmth to the crimson base, invoking the sunbaked clay of Turkish highlands and the deep tradition of vegetal dyes born of local soil and flower.

A rectilinear leafy border of continuous protection encases the vibrant heart of the rug. In this border, stylized leaves and motifs dance between tones of peach, beige, and blackish-charcoal, forming an unbroken meander that both contains and liberates the inner field. The rhythm of repetition in this inner guard band balances the wilder spontaneity of the central medallions, like a melodic refrain holding together the improvisations of a folk song. Every stitch within the framework is a testament to the weaver’s inner compass—at once guided by tradition and moved by intuition.

What emerges is not merely a rug, but a textile artifact of life lived in harmony with the land and the loom. This Oushak runner is both grounded and exalted—perfectly at home in minimalist halls or richly layered interiors. It walks between worlds: between the cultivated and the wild, the sacred and the earthly, the remembered and the reimagined. To tread upon it is to move through color, culture, and the silent poetry of wool spun by hand, dyed in light, and bound by soul.

• Rendered in variegated shades of ruby red, scarlet red, crimson, rust, brick red, peach, rose, gray, coffee, espresso, blackish-charcoal, lemon verbena, greenish-saffron-curry, gold, orange, pistachio, and beige with other accent colors.
• Distressed. Age Wear.
• Abrash.
• Hand knotted wool.
• Made in Turkey.
• Measures: 02'06 x 11'07.
• Date: 1930's. Early 20th Century.