Although Spain is not generally thought of as a rug producing region, Spanish carpets represent the most venerable and honored tradition of rug production in Europe, going back to the time when much of Spain was part of the Islamic world. Still, Spanish rugs were not Moorish products; native Spanish weavers had already learned the technique of making rugs by the fourteenth century, and they have continued to do so up to the twentieth century. Spanish pieces have a weave like no other pile carpets; they are truly knotted, not looped, in staggered rather than superimposed rows. Their coloration has always been soft, with dominant ivory grounds and pastel greens and yellows. Although some early carpets from Spain imitated those of Ottoman Turkey, they soon developed a distinctive, uniquely Iberian or European style of vinescroll ornament. Early pieces are highly desirable to collectors, while nineteenth and twentieth century examples make excellent room-size decorative rugs.
Related Rugs: Alcaraz
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16 Rugs Found in Spanish Rugs
This lovely fragment of a classical Spanish Alcaraz carpet displays a lovely acanthus vinescroll pattern in a classicizing Renaissance style.
This lovely fragment of a classical Spanish Alcaraz carpet displays a lovely acanthus vinescroll pattern in a classicizing Renaissance style
This charming Spanish rug features an all-over pattern of European palmettes arranged in a repeating pattern set against a latticework background.
Woven in Spain circa 1920, this unique European carpet features an Oriental medallion with botanical spandrels and complementary borders featuring lotus blossoms and vinescrolls with flourishing tendrils.
Created in Spain, this festive antique rug features a double star medallion surrounded by protection symbols and familiar figures drawn in a uniquely Spanish style.
One can still make out a boldly stylized leafy vinescroll on the deep yellow gold ground in this fragment of an early Spanish carpet.
This luxurious, long-piled Spanish carpet reflects a tradition of purely European designs.
Delightful sunflowers featuring boldly colored petals set on a clear white field create an artful pattern that lends a painterly air to this Spanish Art Deco rug.
This splendid antique Alcaraz carpet has staggered palmettes and acanthus vines in deep sage green spreading majestically across a rich butterscotch ground.
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This highly unusual antique Spanish carpet is adapted from a classical Persian design of palmette, arabesque vinescrolls, and cloudbands.
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