HEIRLOOM Purveyor of Rare and Unusual Rugs. Brooklyn, NYC.

Create an Atmosphere

We love assisting with special projects no matter large or small. Let us help you set the tone for your next hospitality installation or create the perfect custom piece to warm up your new commercial space.

Make an Impression

Vintage and antique rugs add warmth and create an atmosphere in almost any setting. We offer rentals for film & tv, editorials, art installations and special events like performances and weddings. Find the perfect accent for your next special event or project.

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We offer specialized cleaning and repair services that will help your rug stay vibrant and beautiful for generations to come. We offer both in-house and on-site services. Learn more.

Browse our Collection

If you can't visit in person we offer a selection of our inventory online. Check back every Monday for new additions!

Gifts under $500

SELECTED NEW ARRIVALS

A few of our newest pieces. Check out all of our New Arrivals

A handsome Ersari Turkmen carpet with a richly saturated madder-red field organized into rows of large octagonal guls, each quartered and filled with small floral devices. Between them, angular cruciform ornaments create a secondary lattice, giving the field an unusually energetic rhythm.

Velvety Ersari Turkmen - 7'1 x 8'5

$3,250.00 Sold out

A finely woven Chi-Chi rug from the northeastern Caucasus, packed with the dense, jewel-like drawing for which the group is prized. The dark chocolate-brown field is organized in horizontal bands of stepped geometric medallions alternating with tightly worked floral and abstract devices in saturated cobalt blue, brick red, ivory, soft green, and apricot.

Antique Chi Chi Rug - 3' x 4'8

$1,750.00

An exceptional Shekarlu rug with an unusually elaborate striped field, alternating saturated madder-red and deep indigo panels packed with an astonishing vocabulary of small motifs. Trees, rosettes, comb-like devices, lattices, geometric medallions, animals, and tiny human figures appear almost like a woven archive of tribal imagery, with scarcely an inch left unconsidered.

Late 19th Century Shekarlu Qashqa'i Rug - 6' x 8'5

$4,500.00

An extraordinary Armenian inscribed rug dated 1894, with a powerful sequence of geometric medallions set against a richly colored field of red, ivory, green, blue, yellow, and aubergine. The drawing is wonderfully individual, with bold hooked forms, small floral devices, and a lively multicolored border framing the composition.

Most compelling is the woven Armenian inscription, which appears to read:

“The rug of Satenik Abovian, in the year 1894.”

Antique Armenian Kazak Rug - 3'10 x 10'

$1,450.00

A wonderfully graphic Kurdish rug with a dark indigo field densely packed with rows of large botehs in coral, salmon, blue, green, ivory, and soft brown. Each boteh is filled with fine horizontal patterning, creating a lively surface of shifting color and texture.

Antique Kurdish Boteh Runner - 3'9 x 10'

$2,500.00

An exceptional Kurdish rug distinguished above all by its top-notch color and superb wool. The field is composed of lively diagonal bands, each carrying a different floral or geometric repeat and shifting through saturated brick red, deep indigo, grassy green, ivory, ochre, aubergine, and soft rose.

19th Century Colorful Kurdish Rug - 4'x 7'5

$3,500.00

FEATURED

Wari Mounted Tie Dye Gauze 600-1000 CE - 3'5 x 2'10

More than 1,000 years old, this remarkably delicate Wari textile features ivory and yellow circles against a rich ochre ground, created through a sophisticated resist-dye technique.

Its sheer gauze weave and beautifully weathered surface give the piece an ethereal presence, while the bold abstraction feels strikingly contemporary.

Professionally mounted on a custom-sized aluminum stretcher frame, this rare textile fragment is presented as a striking work of art, equally compelling for its historical significance and contemporary visual appeal

Created using a sophisticated resist-dye technique, the design reveals the remarkable precision and technical mastery of Wari textile makers. The sheer, open weave lends the composition an ethereal quality, while its beautifully weathered surface offers a tangible connection to the ancient Andean world.

Wari Mounted Tie Dye Gauze Head Covering 600-100CE - 3'5 x 2'10

$2,500.00

DEAL OF THE MONTH

Vintage Angora Tulu Rug - 3'7 x 5'6
$950-

A wonderfully tactile Angora Tulu rug distinguished by its exceptionally soft, shaggy pile and striking geometric composition. Woven in a restrained palette of undyed Angora goat hair, the rug features a rich, earthy field of charcoal brown and warm taupe, punctuated by an ivory central medallion with jagged, irregular colors.

Vintage Angora Tulu Rug - 3'7 x 5'6

$950.00

A striking Miao batik wall hanging or coverlet on a deep indigo ground, densely animated with birds, butterflies, fish, flowers, and curling vines in white wax resist. The imagery draws on a rich symbolic vocabulary associated with the natural world, fertility, abundance, renewal, and continuity.

Miao Batik Coverlet or Wall Hanging - 4' x 5'6

$950.00

A Collection of Coptic Textiles woven between the 5th - 7th Century

An exceptionally early Coptic textile fragment, woven more than 1,400 years ago, preserving richly patterned tapestry bands against a warm linen ground. Deep red fields are animated with scrolling vegetal forms and inset medallions containing highly stylized floral, animal, and possibly scarab-like motifs in ochre, green, cream, and dark brown.

5-7th Century Coptic Textile Fragment - 15" x 9.5"

$1,250.00

5th-7th Century Coptic Textile Fragment - 8" x 5"

$750.00 Sold out

A remarkably understated Coptic textile fragment, woven on a warm brown linen ground and patterned with repeated horizontal bands of small linked motifs in deep blue-green, with traces of red.

Rather than the bold tapestry panels more often associated with Coptic textiles, this piece has an appealingly spare, almost minimalist quality. The repeating forms create a quiet rhythm across the surface, their irregularities revealing the hand of the weaver.

5th-7th Century Coptic Textile Fragment - 14" x 9"

$1,250.00

A wonderfully animated fragment of late antique Egyptian tapestry weaving, densely worked with stylized zoomorphic and vegetal forms with small geometric compartments in muted red, blue-green, rose, ochre, brown, and black.

The imagery is compressed into horizontal registers, with individual motifs appearing almost like tiny pictograms. Its fragmentary survival only heightens that quality, turning what was once part of a larger textile into an unexpectedly modern, almost collage-like compos

5th-7th Century Coptic Textile Fragment - 8" x 7"

$850.00

More New Arrivals

A wonderfully unusual handwoven rug with a soft aqua ground and an intricate allover network of small geometric forms in taupe, gray, and faded blue. The dense central field is surrounded by a much more open border populated with quirky, almost pictographic motifs in brick red and charcoal.

Contemporary Turkish Rug - 7' x 9'9

$4,500.00

A wonderfully graphic vintage latch-hook rug with a repeating grid of aqua panels, each centered by a playful abstract motif in soft blush, salmon, and deep blue. The warm brown ground gives the composition structure while allowing the almost cellular, biomorphic forms to float across the surface.

Vintage Latchhook Rug - 3'10 x 4'10

$950.00

A wonderfully charming American folk-art hooked rug depicting a horse, house, tree, and seated cat across a long, narrow landscape. Its appeal lies in the wonderfully intuitive drawing and deliberately unconcerned sense of scale: the horse nearly rivals the house, while the cat sits monumentally beside a tree scarcely larger than itself.

Early 20th Century Hooked Rug - 1'8 x 4'4

$950.00

Contemporary @ Heirloom - Now through OCTOBER 24th

Shradha Kochhar - elongating Time

Shradha Kochhar (b. Delhi, India) is a Brooklyn-based textile artist and educator whose practice explores material memory, cotton histories, invisible labor, and intergenerational healing. She is best known for hand-spun and hand-knitted khadi sculptures made with kala cotton, an indigenous Indian cotton variety, creating sculptural archives of personal and collective South Asian narratives.

NOW THROUGH OCTOBER 24TH

Shradha's immersive installation features work she created specifically for this exhibit. Carefully curating each piece from Heirloom’s collection, from Coptic textile fragments, 19th-century Caucasian rugs, to Pre-Columbian textiles and two exceptional Shekarlu Qashqa'i rugs, Shradha brings a distinct visual language to the space, creating a dialogue between the chosen works and her ethereal knitted essays, which float through the space like a dream or a memory.

Elongating Time