Vintage Turkish Patchwork Rugs: Beautiful and Green Friendly!

Vin­tage Patch­work Rug in Autumn tones

Clayton Gray Home cus­tomers now have access to one-​​of-​​a-​​kind vin­tage patch­work rugs. These unique rugs are hand-​​stitched together in Turkey using sal­vaged pieces of vin­tage asian rugs. Indi­vidual parts of dam­aged or worn, but still beau­tiful orig­inal antique rugs from throughout the world (some over 100 years old), from Pak­istan, India, Nepal, Jaipur, Tibet, Armenia and Turkey are saved, col­lected and stitched together. The rug then goes through an over-​​dye process to give it varying shades of a cer­tain color tone. These orig­inal vin­tage Turkish pieces are very spe­cial hand­made rugs that will add color and his­tory to any room. Of course, since each patch­work is unique, color and pat­tern vari­a­tions will differ slightly, making them spe­cial in their own way.

Vin­tage Patch­work Rug in Blue tones

The ulti­mate green product for your home, vin­tage patch­work rugs are a gen­uine recy­cled product! The varying pat­terns and designs that were weaved into the orig­inal antique rugs years ago, are still vis­ible and often parts of the pat­terns are in very good shape.  After pieces are selected and then thought­fully placed to form a pleasing mosaic effect, the fin­ished product is a custom piece of history.

(above and below) On left is shown typ­ical eastern rug; on right is overdyed patch­work rug. The orig­inal eastern rug pat­tern is still vis­ible after overdye process.

A large “base­ball” stitch is used to hand-​​sew the pieces together.

Pro­duc­tion of the rugs includes being stitched to a solid backing to give the piece years of sta­bility in your home under typ­ical use. The rugs have been over dyed in varying tones and are avail­able in dif­ferent colors to work with your interior.

A won­derful way to bring a “green” floor cov­ering into your design, and still retain the fan­tastic beauty that these col­orful rugs offer.