Silk Samarkand Khotan Rug

1900s Samarkand 'Khotan' yellow and brown handmade wool rug Size: 4'6" × 6'10" (137 × 208 cm) An early 20th century Samarkand carpet, the yellow field with angular vines, flower head...

Vintage Samarkand ‘Khotan’ yellow hand knotted wool rug. Size: 2'7" x 4'5" (78 x 134 cm) An early 20th century Samarkand kilim rug, the ochre field with flowering branches around a c...

Vintage Khotan (Samarkand) rug Size: 4'4" × 6'4" (132 × 193 cm) The antique rugs of the oasis towns of East Turkestan are incomparable. These exotic oriental carpets from Kashgar, Yarkand and Khotan in the Chinese occupied Autonomous Region of Sikiang are collectively known as Samarkands. Typically, they are in a long and relatively narrow format with simplistic spacious designs rendered in a glossy wool, occasionally embellished with richly brocaded silk and metal-thread. The distinctive and prevailing colorations of lacquer reds, Chinese yellows, heavily influenced by the neighboring countries of China and Turkey, have been produced in this region since at least the seventeenth century. For thousands of years these lands of arid steppes, deserts and brutal mountain ranges were traversed by caravans of merchants and traders from China to Western Europe along the Silk Route. These unusual antique Samarkand carpets of Central Asia display...

Vintage Samarkand (Khotan) Rug Size: 8'9" × 9'1" (266 × 276 cm) An antique rug with an orange field beneath a restrained geometric lattice of angular floral motifs within a blue bord...

Vintage Samarkand ‘Khotan’ Rug Size: 7'0" × 12'1" (213 × 368 cm) This circa 1880 vintage Samarkand (Khotan) rug features a unique design of three large centred circular shapes contai...

High-quality Samarkand 'Khotan' Handmade Wool Rug Size: 7'0" × 13'3" (213 × 403 cm) A second quarter of the 20th century Samarkand (Khotan) rug, having a camel field with a lattice o...

Light color Khotan rug with geometric Medallions in gray, tan, pale green, rust and light blue, rug/MP-1903-10518 country of origin / type: Afghanistan / Khotan This Khotan featur...

Khotan rugs were originally produced in East Turkestan and are interchangeably referred to as Samarkand rugs due to their close proximity to the cultural city center of the same name...

Khotan rugs were originally produced in East Turkestan and are interchangeably referred to as Samarkand rugs due to their close proximity to the cultural city center of the same name...

Khotan rugs were originally produced in East Turkestan and are interchangeably referred to as Samarkand rugs due to their close proximity to the cultural city center of the same name...

Khotan rugs were originally produced in East Turkestan and are interchangeably referred to as Samarkand rugs due to their close proximity to the cultural city center of the same name...

Khotan rugs were originally produced in East Turkestan and are interchangeably referred to as Samarkand rugs due to their close proximity to the cultural city center of the same name...