Traditional Romanian Carpets

Romanian carpets from oltenia bear a wide variety of motifs prominent among them horses and riders roosters dolls cuckoos stags and other various symbols.

Traditional romanian carpets.

This is particularly true of romania where the word for carpet is scoarta. 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. Traditional romanian woven carpets and rugs with colorful motifs in suceava county bucovina. 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. 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. 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. The turkish word kilim denotes a pileless textile produced by a flat weaving technique.

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Made in 3 main regional traditions oltenia moldova and maramures these rugs represent a beautiful. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about romanian rugs. Romanian rug makers use the kilim technique. The most common romanian rugs material is wool.

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A variety of techniques were needed to produce the pieces with impressive motifs. Romanian rugs use cotton or woolen foundations except for moldova rugs that use mercerized cotton. Most of the romanian traditional rugs are flat weave kilims probably influenced centuries ago by the ottoman s techniques. Certain patterns also indicated where the weaver was from.

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 9x12 oriental area rug wool rust navy blue very.