Mid-20th Century More Carpets

20619, vintage Berber Moroccan Azilal rug with tribal style. Abrashed sandy-beige hues provides the perfect backdrop for the vivid colors featured on this vintage Berber Moroccan Azi...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 4" x 12' 4".

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

Vintage Turkish Oushak runner in neutral & warm colors with Tribal Medallions, rug TU-MTU-4870, country of origin / type: Turkey / Oushak, circa mid-20th. Measures: 3'2 x 10'8.

This fabulous hand-knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

Tribal vintage Oushak rug with geometric medallion design, rug TU-TOZ-3353, country of origin / type: Turkey / Oushak, circa 1940 Measures: 3'11 x 6'10.

This fabulous hand-knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

Rare Bauhaus carpet by Antonin Kybal designed in 1930s. Measures: 557cm x 137cm Professionally cleaned.

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 10" x 4' 8".

This fabulous hand-knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

60883-60887 pair of matching vintage Persian Heriz Runners with Mid-Century Modern style. With a timeless design and Mid-Century Modern style, this matching pair of hand knotted wool...

77771 Vintage Navajo Kilim Yeibichai rug with Southwestern Folk Art Style 02'07 x 05'03. Full of tiny details and a bold expressive design combin...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century in blue. Measures: 2' 11" x 4' 10".

1960s authentic handwoven vintage Moroccan Berber tribal rug, nicely aged and faded orange washed cors.Handwoven by The Berber tribes in Morocco with traditional geometric tribal des...

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim accent rug in square format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 6" x 7' 4".

A vintage American Rag rug in throw/scatter size handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 3" x 6' 5".

77872, vintage Navajo Kilim rug with Two Grey Hills style9. With its bold expressive design, incredible detail and texture, this hand-woven wo...

Gray blue, soft green, soft red Persian Heriz with geometric medallion design, rug M14-0513, country of origin / type: Iran / Heriz, circa 1930 This Persian Heriz features a class...

78053 vintage Persian Heriz rug with Tribal style 02'08 x 04'10. Full of tiny details and a bold expressive design combined with lively colors and tribal style, this hand-knotted woo...

Vertical stripe design flat-weave Kilim from Turkey vintage in orange, red, brown, gray, and cream, rug TU-NED-605, country of origin / type: Turkey / Kilim, circa 1950. Woven dur...

Vintage Oushak gallery rug from Turkey in with flower motifs, rug TU-MTU-7, country of origin / type: Turkey / Oushak, circa 1950 Measures: 4'7 x 11'10.

Vintage Gallery runner from Turkey with Medallion design in various tones of tan, sand, taupe and light brown rug/TU-MTU-4889. Measures: 5'4 x 10'7.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 8".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 5' 1".

A mid 20th century Turkish rug with a colorful red and green palette Measures: 2'10'' x 4'1''.

Are you looking for a vintage piece to uplift your space? Then Look no further! Both the colour, design and construction of this fine wool rug make it the perfect accent piece. This ...

77779, vintage Navajo Kilim rug with Two Grey Hills style. With its bold expressive design, incredible detail and texture, this hand-woven woo...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 8" x 3' 9" The Craft of the hand-knotted carpet in China, and the surrounding areas including Mongolia and Tibet, extends into the early centuries of the first millennium, C.E., but we really have a firm grasp only beginning in the later 16th century with large, very coarsely woven carpets, often depicting dragons, created for the Imperial Forbidden City palaces. Chinese carpets have always been commercial and there are no tribal groups responsible for any of the carpet weaving strains. When the Ming Dynasty fell in 1644, with no Imperial patrons, production moved to the city of Ningxia in north central China where several workshops turned out more finely woven pieces for the Mandarins of the administrative Ch’ing bureaucracy and well-to-do merchants. Ningxia was the major Chinese carpet center up through most of the 19th century, with first allover and then medallion designs on cotton foundations in medium weaves. Palettes were initially limited to yellows, dark blue and cream, but later widened to include reds, browns and even green. These antiques were the first Chinese carpets to be exported to the West and they fitted in well with the craze for Chinese blue-and-white porcelain in the second half of the 19th century. Ningxia also wove shaped and rectangular small rugs for saddle underlays, chair (“throne”) seats and shaped backs, pillar carpets with dragons or monks for Buddhist monasteries, and long divided runners for monastery meditation halls. These small rugs are among the most collectible of all Chinese weavings. Weavers from Ningxia set up workshops in the capital Peking (Beijing) in the 1860’s and began weaving Western room sizes for export, primarily to America. In blue – and – white and polychrome palettes, with round wreath medallions, precious objects, seasonal flowers, paeonies, lotuses, fretwork, clouds, butterflies and bats, all relatively spaciously drawn. The round “Shou” (Good Luck) character is also a prominent decorative motif. There are also a few Peking landscape pictorials with pagodas, houses, bridges, waterscapes and boats. Peking carpets were woven right up until WWII and production began again after the Cultural Revolution around 1970. They are moderately well-woven, on cotton foundations, exactingly executed and indisputably Chinese. Many are in the blue-and-white style. Nothing else looks like a Peking carpet and for a Chinese “look” in a room, they are absolutely indispensable. Sizes range from scatters and a few runners, through the popular 9’12’ size, to large carpets over 20’ which must have been special orders. The earliest Peking Revival carpets are pliable and fairly thin, but they became heavier and more compact in the 20th century, in competition with Art Deco carpets from Tientsin. The modern, post- 1970, pieces are in the traditional Peking style, but are a little too regular and neat. Exactitude has been favored over character, as hard to explain that as it is. There are a number of all-silk and silk-and –metal thread pieces, many with inscriptions purporting to link them with rooms in the Imperial palaces, bringing very substantial auction prices, but none are really antique. The genre emerged after WWI and the present demand comes from mainland Chinese. The silk piles often Stand in pattern relief against flat woven gold metal thread grounds. The inscriptions are apocryphal, the rugs are flashily opulent, perfect for nouveaux riches. The Art Deco period between the two World Wars saw a distinctive carpet industry developing in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northeastern China. These are highly prized for their transitional design character, neither overtly Chinese, nor abstractly modern/contemporary. Woven exclusively for export, usually by and for American firms, such as Nichols and Elbrook, they are totally in the “Jazz Age Modern” style of the 1920’s, often without borders, with abstract or abstracted patterns, and only with, at best, a few Chinese-y pattern elements. Vases asymmetrically placed in the corners are features of some of the more Chinese-y carpets. Open fields with floral sprays and branches growing in from the edges are anther design innovation. Often, Chinese motives have been re-imagined in more sharp-edged, abstract manners. Some have no references whatsoever to natural elements. The patterns are sharp and the rugs are never subdued, soft or restrained. The rugs are heavily constructed, with crisp, unfading dyes and medium to medium coarse weaves on cotton foundations. All are extremely well-executed, with none of the vagaries, variations or twists found on even high-quality Persian rugs. The majority are in the 9’ by 12’ format and a surprising number can be found in top condition. There also was a substantial production in Peking from, especially from the Fette factory. Elliptical and round carpets, and lighter, often pastel colors, were a specialty. Nothing looks like an Art Deco Chinese and they work well with traditional Chinese furniture and the most modern decor as well. These is no substitute for a good Chinese Art Deco carpet. Chinese carpets also include small scatters from Tibet, with high quality wool, floating dragons and allover textile patterns. The colors of vintage and modern pieces are bright, but there are antique small rugs...

A vintage Turkish Art Deco style accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 8' 6".

77776, vintage Navajo Kilim rug with Two Grey Hills style. With its bold expressive design, incredible detail and texture, this hand-woven woo...

This large rug is a handwoven Serbian Kilim woven in the early 20th century. The design features a striped bold geometric pattern featuring contrasting red, beige, blue and green. The design and colours are featured together to make the perfect accent piece suitable for Classic and contemporary homes. Kilim rugs have been used for generations on both floors and walls for decor and warmth and created by nomads out of necessity to keep them warm. Constructed with only the most delicate handspun, organically dyed wool and cotton. The techniques and materials used to create a durable piece suitable for any high traffic area in your home or office. Traditional antique rug pirot Kilim...

A vintage Turkish Art Deco runner handmade during the mid-20th century.

A vintage Persian flatweave room size carpet, with a modern design in black, handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 9" x 12' 2".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 4' 11".

77688 Vintage Persian Mahal rug with Rustic Modern Style 04'00 x 06'04. Effortless beauty and rustic sensibility, this hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Persian Mahal rug gives a liv...

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 8" x 5' 6".

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 3" x 10' 8".

A vintage Persian Veece small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 7' 1" x 11' 5".

52065, vintage Turkish Oushak extra-long hallway runner with Art Deco style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak runner with tribal style features a multiple border design ...

77527, vintage Navajo Kilim rug with Two Grey Hills style 03'00 x 05'11. With its bold expressive design, incredible detail and texture, this ...

A vintage Persian Veece large room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 9" x 14' 3".

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 9" Chinese Rugs & Carpet: The craft of the hand-knotted carpet in China, and the surrounding areas including Mongolia and Tibet, extends into the early centuries of the first millennium, C.E., but we really have a firm grasp only beginning in the later 16th century with large, very coarsely woven carpets, often depicting dragons, created for the Imperial Forbidden City palaces. Chinese carpets have always been commercial and there are no tribal groups responsible for any of the carpet weaving strains. When the Ming Dynasty fell in 1644, with no Imperial patrons, production moved to the city of Ningxia in north central China where several workshops turned out more finely woven pieces for the Mandarins of the administrative Ch’ing bureaucracy and well-to-do merchants. Ningxia was the major Chinese carpet center up through most of the 19th century, with first allover and then medallion designs on cotton foundations in medium weaves. Palettes were initially limited to yellows, dark blue and cream, but later widened to include reds, browns and even green. These antiques were the first Chinese carpets to be exported to the West and they fitted in well with the craze for Chinese blue-and-white porcelain in the second half of the 19th century. Ningxia also wove shaped and rectangular small rugs for saddle underlays, chair (“throne”) seats and shaped backs, pillar carpets with dragons or monks for Buddhist monasteries, and long divided runners for monastery meditation halls. These small rugs are among the most collectible of all Chinese weavings. Weavers from Ningxia set up workshops in the capital Peking (Beijing) in the 1860’s and began weaving Western room sizes for export, primarily to America. In blue – and – white and polychrome palettes, with round wreath medallions, precious objects, seasonal flowers, paeonies, lotuses, fretwork, clouds, butterflies and bats, all relatively spaciously drawn. The round “Shou” (Good Luck) character is also a prominent decorative motif. There are also a few Peking landscape pictorials with pagodas, houses, bridges, waterscapes and boats. Peking carpets were woven right up until WWII and production began again after the Cultural Revolution around 1970. They are moderately well-woven, on cotton foundations, exactingly executed and indisputably Chinese. Many are in the blue-and-white style. Nothing else looks like a Peking carpet and for a Chinese “look” in a room, they are absolutely indispensable. Sizes range from scatters and a few runners, through the popular 9’12’ size, to large carpets over 20’ which must have been special orders. The earliest Peking Revival carpets are pliable and fairly thin, but they became heavier and more compact in the 20th century, in competition with Art Deco carpets from Tientsin. The modern, post- 1970, pieces are in the traditional Peking style, but are a little too regular and neat. Exactitude has been favored over character, as hard to explain that as it is. There are a number of all-silk and silk-and –metal thread pieces, many with inscriptions purporting to link them with rooms in the Imperial palaces, bringing very substantial auction prices, but none are really antique. The genre emerged after WWI and the present demand comes from mainland Chinese. The silk piles often stand in pattern relief against flat woven gold metal thread grounds. The inscriptions are apocryphal, the rugs are flashily opulent, perfect for nouveaux riches. The Art Deco period between the two World Wars saw a distinctive carpet industry developing in Tientsin (Tianjin) in northeastern China. These are highly prized for their transitional design character, neither overtly Chinese, nor abstractly modern/contemporary. Woven exclusively for export, usually by and for American firms, such as Nichols and Elbrook, they are totally in the “Jazz Age Modern” style of the 1920’s, often without borders, with abstract or abstracted patterns, and only with, at best, a few Chinese-y pattern elements. Vases asymmetrically placed in the corners are features of some of the more Chinese-y carpets. Open fields with floral sprays and branches growing in from the edges are anther design innovation. Often, Chinese motives have been re-imagined in more sharp-edged, abstract manners. Some have no references whatsoever to natural elements. The patterns are sharp and the rugs are never subdued, soft or restrained. The rugs are heavily constructed, with crisp, unfading dyes and medium to medium coarse weaves on cotton foundations. All are extremely well-executed, with none of the vagaries, variations or twists found on even high-quality Persian rugs. The majority are in the 9’ by 12’ format and a surprising number can be found in top condition. There also was a substantial production in Peking from, especially from the Fette factory. Elliptical and round carpets, and lighter, often pastel colors, were a specialty. Nothing looks like an Art Deco Chinese and they work well with traditional Chinese furniture and the most modern decor as well. These is no substitute for a good Chinese Art Deco carpet. Chinese carpets also include small scatters from Tibet, with high quality wool, floating dragons and allover textile patterns. The colors of vintage and modern pieces are bright, but there are antique small rugs...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

This large oriental carpet is a beautiful example of Turkish carpets woven in the early 20th century. The all-over design of this vintage rug has...

This elegant hand made wool runner rug was constructed in 1960. The fine central design features a rich red background with brown, cream and black accents that make up the sophistica...

Vintage Turkish flat-weave Tribal Modern kilim with embroideries in multi colors, rug / TU-NED-4716. Measures: 5 x 9'9 Rendered in star shapes with a spotted and speckled ass...

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

A vintage Persian Shiraz rug in small runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 6' 0".

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

74512 Vintage Beni Ourain Moroccan Rug, 05'09 x 10'00. Crafted with precision and care, Beni Ourain rugs are meticulously hand-woven by the skilled women of the Beni Ourain and vari...

78065, vintage Persian Heriz rug with Mid-Century Modern style 12'09 x 19'05. Warm and inviting with Mid-Century Modern style, this hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Heriz rug featur...

Vintage Kilim, Sweden, mid-20th century. Size: 4 ft 6 in x 6 ft 8 in (1.37 m x 2.03 m)

This fabulous hand-knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 6' 7" Turkish rugs & carpets: Until the Great Persian Carpet Revival in the later 19th century, the “Oriental rug” was Turkish. For nearly six centuries, Turkish rugs, both scatter, room size, and even larger, thoroughly dominated the European import market. Whereas the Persian carpet can be divided into urban, village, and tribal types, in Turkey and its predecessor the Ottoman Empire, rugs almost exclusively came from village weavers and from a small number of urban workshops. Ninety percent village, nine percent city, one percent tribal. Turkish weavers have, with very few exceptions, always worked with the symmetric (Turkish) knot. Wool foundations are standard practice among both town and village weavers. The exceptions, very finely woven 20th century and recent Herekeh silks from near Istanbul, and early 17th century Ottoman Court rugs from Bursa, constitute only a tiny part of the total. Always pricey, they appealed and still appeal to the clients who want lots of knots and perfect execution instead of individual personality. The urban workshops have been centered around the western Turkish city of Oushak and its attendant port town of Smyrna. Oushak weaves with the trends in fashion. When color saturated medallion carpets were needed, Oushak was ready in the 17th and 18th centuries. When coarse red and blue carpets...

77689 vintage Turkish Sivas rug with Traditional style 03'11 x 05'08. With its effortless beauty and rustic sensibility, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Sivas rug beautifully ...

This fabulous hand-knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

53575 Vintage Turkish Kars Gallery rug 05'09 x 12'08. With its warm hues and beguiling beauty, this hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Kars gallery rug will take on a curated lived-in...