Earthy Colored Vintage Scandinavian Finnish Pile Rug, Country Origin: Finland, Date; This Vintage Pile Rug Is Dated 1924 – This extraordinary Finnish Arts and Crafts carpet with its striking design of allover medallions harks back to medieval Scandinavian textiles, and perhaps to Turkmen / Yomut rugs as well. Deep blue green octagons with cruciform ornaments are set against a rust cocoa ground with similar cruciform fillers in this striking vintage rug. A bold zig-zag border adds a different and unexpected element that nicely complements the finer ornament of the field.
There are two more aspects of this vintage Finnish Scandinavian pile rug, that sets it aside from the rest of the rugs from Scandinavia. The first is the fact that it is quite large as most of the other rugs woven around the same area and time period tend to be smaller than 8 x10. The second aspect that further adds to the uniqueness of this historical vintage Finnish Scandinavian rile rug is the fact that it was woven as a knotted pile rug and not like most of the rugs that were created using flat weaves and kilim rug weaves.
