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Try a Handmade Oushak Rug for Warm Spice Tones and Softness Underfoot

Handmade Oushak Rug
Try a Handmade Oushak Rug for Warm Spice Tones and Softness Underfoot
Oushak rugs are elegant and incredibly soft, and work well with a range of styles — is it any wonder they are a favorite of decorators? Here’s how to identify these beautiful carpets and where they come from. Oushak rugs are named after the city of Uşak, Turkey, which was a center of rug production beginning in the Ottoman Empire and continuing to this day. In the past these magnificent rugs were known simply as Anatolian, but today collectors and scholars are able to more specifically classify them apart from other Turkish rugs. More…