Central Asian Rugs

Handmade Antique Afghan Baluch Rug: Design and Aesthetics: Originating from the 1920s, this rug carries a rich history and timeless appeal. Measuring 118cm x 149cm (approximately 3....

nr. 301 - Small roses buds in a net of green leaves covering the blue background of the kilim. All enclosed in a blue frame containing small roses. Excellent workmanship by Kurdish ...

A vintage Chinese square rug in predominant shades of midnight blue. The wool is very soft and all the colors are natural. Measures: 5'7” x 6'2”.

An incredible early 1940s Central Asian Khotan rug with a unique all-over mirrored crimson tree-of-life and pomegranate pattern on a variegated brown background. The border is comple...

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Persian Malayer Accent Rug in earth tones from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century size 4'2" x 6'6"

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An antique East Turkestan Khotan accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 9" x 8' 11"

Orange and blue make up the main colors of this fine handmade wool area rug, constructed in the 1950s. The central design features a rich orange...

Nice mid century Chinese beijing rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco design and nice colors with blue, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience t...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 3x7 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

This Turkmenistan Yomud tribe ceremonial horse blanket is crafted from brown felt wool and dates to the early 20th Century. It features a mix embroidered tribal patterns and motifs a...

This traditional Ziegler rug is one of our more luxurious rugs made on own looms by our master weavers of Afghan rugs. This cream rug is made with organic vegetable dyes all handspun...

Pretty mid century Turkmen Baluch rug with a stylized designs and nice colours with red, purple, orange, brown, white and black, entirely hand knotted with wool on cotton foundation....

nr. 514 - Private collection ---------- Another nomadic carpet from my private collection. This has four peacocks in the center with the characteristic tail, a symbol of nobility and...

nr. 640 - Private Collection ---------------------- The background of the carpet is in the natural écru color of thew wool, but the design is polychrome and very pleasant, with noma...

nr. 464 - My private collection ---------------- Typical nomadic carpet of Central Asia: polychrome lighting bolts enclosed in a deer border. It is in all respects a work of modern art.

nr. 496 - From my Private Collection ---------------------- Nomadic vintage rug with camels and roosters. Ideal for a country house, on the floor or hanging, but also in the city, a...

nr. 916 - From private collection ------ Unusual old horse saddle , simple and elegant, typical of a particular nomadic tribe in Central Asia. Id you can't use it,, at least hang it ...

nr. 829 - From my private collection ---- Soft and almost shiny wool, very simple but hightly effective design. One of the most unique and beautiful nomadic carpets in my long exper...

nr. 927 - From my Private collection ---------- An high palm tree with dates and multicolored birds stands out on a coral red background. All enclosed in a simple large unusual frame...

nr. 650 - Private Collection ------ Another nomadic carpet from my private collection. Two large roosters under a plant (or palm tree) dominate the field, where there are also two d...

Measures: 5'4 x 10'8 Antique Khotan Rug by Keivan Woven Arts with Repeating Medallion Design. rug EMB-9709, country of origin / type: Turkistan / tribal, circa 1900/early 20th centu...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2x5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

An accent size early 20th century Persian Malayer rug in light blues and peach tones Measures: 4'6 x 6'15".

Midcentury Samarkand navy blue and beige handmade wool carpet. Size: 4'0" × 6'2" (121 × 187 cm) This beautiful vintage rug is a Classic example of the exceptional artistry from Samar...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2x5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2x5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2x5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2x5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2x5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2x5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

78010 Antique Afghan Bashir Rug, 05'07 x 12'06. Embark on a journey where tribal mystique seamlessly intertwines with the relaxed refined ambiance of a rustic lodge in this meticulou...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2x5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

Vintage Brown Turkmen Rug Runner 3' X 8'7. Vintage Turkmen hand knotted Rug Runner with the traditional browns, cinnamon and ivory colors.

Mid-20th century Khotan 'Samarkand' handmade wool rug in purple, red and yellow. Size: 4'11" × 9'2" (149 × 279 cm) A second quarter of the 20th century Samarkand rug, the purple fiel...

Pretty mid century Turkmen Baluch rug with a stylized designs and nice colours with a yellow field, red, brown, purple, white and black, entirely hand knotted with wool on cotton fou...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2×4 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...

Pretty small vintage Pakistani rug with nice geometrical design in style of Turkmen rugs, and beautiful colours with pink field, pink, orange , white and black, entirely and finely h...

Pretty small vintage Pakistani rug with nice geometrical design in style of Turkmen rugs, and beautiful colours with beige field, pink, blue , white and black, entirely and finely ha...

Pretty small vintage Pakistani rug with nice geometrical design in style of Turkmen rugs, and beautiful colours with beige field, pink, blue , white and black, entirely and finely ha...

Pretty small vintage Pakistani rug with nice geometrical design in style of Turkmen rugs, and beautiful colours with blue field, pink, yellow, white and black, entirely and finely ha...

Tekke carpets are instantly recognizable for their distinctive stamped elephant foot patterns, even more so the early pieces, well known for their bold, visually arresting drawings. ...

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Drawing inspiration from celebrated Austrian Deco rug patterns, this custom modern rug joins the European Collection, a design affectionately dubbed ...

Vintage hand-knotted all silk rug with a silk pile on a silk foundation circa the 4th quarter of the 1900s in a dark green and ivory colors. The rug is in a geometric medallion pattern with an ivory/cream color background and border in dark green. The center medallion and the corner spandrels are also in dark green colors. The accent colors throughout the field and border include brown, black and tan. Dimensions: 5’ 5” x 8’ 8” Date of Manufacture: 4th Quarter of the 1900s Place of Origin: Afghanistan Material: Silk pile on a silk foundation Condition: Good Afghan Silk Rugs...

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Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2×4 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

Pretty vintage small Turkmen Baluch rug with beautiful tribal design and nice colours, entirely hand knotted with wool on wool foundation Small wears ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of...

Handwoven in wool, circa 1950-1960, this 2×5 vintage Afghan tribal kilim, is a collectible tribal piece that may have been used as table covers in nomadic daily life, much similar to...

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It does not come with an insert but a bag made to the size to accommodate insert materials. Linen in the back. Zipper closure. Dry Clean only.

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