Wool Chinese and East Asian Rugs

19th Century Chinese Perking Carpet ( 11'10" x 15'8" 360 x 470 )

A vintage Tibetan rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 6" x 16' 1".

77101, a surrealist style tapestry after Joan Miro's 'Femme et Oiseaux' Woman and Birds, 1966. The painting was the last of a series the artist comple...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 9'0" x 11'3".

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet with " 100 Antiques Pattern " ( 5' 6'' x 10' 7'' - 167 x 322 cm )

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 13'6" x 16'6" - 412 x 503 )

Handmade vintage Art Deco Chinese rug in sky blue and beige shades. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original condition, the rug has some stains. - Condition: orig...

Handmade antique collectible Chinese Ningxia rug in yellow shade. The rug is in original condition, has age wears. -Condition: original, age wear,...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 5'9" x 6'8".

A vintage Chinese pictorial accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century of horses prancing in a field over a dark midnight blue background. Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 6".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' 6" x 6' 10" - 106 x 208 cm )

Handmade vintage narrow Chinese runner from the end of 20th century. It is in original condition, has some signs of age. ? -condition: original, some ...

77631 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols 08'10 x 11'06. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco ...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with Fuchsia color and 8'9" x 11'4" size.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'1'' x 9'7'' - 245 x 292 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 8'0" x 9'10".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' 1'' x 3' 3'' - 63 x 99 cm )

1920s Pictorial Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4' 6''x 9' 1'' - 137 x 276 )

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rugs, size: 9' 0'' x 11' 8''.

Nice little Chinese beijing rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco design and beautiful colors with blue, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

A vintage Chinese Peking throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cream border and light blue field. Measures: 2' 6" x 4' 3" 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...

Beautiful 20th century Chinese pictural rug, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury and craft...

77809 vintage Chinese Floral Kilim rug with English Country cottage style 04'02 x 06'03. Cleverly composed and distinctively well-balanced, this hand-woven wool vintage Chinse floral...

Antique Chinese Peking rug, Size: 4' 10'' x 8' 6''.

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'6" x 11'7" - 290 x 353 )

The open pearl grey field has a diagonally asymmetric pattern of a grape arbour in the top left and a pagoda in a rocky landscape in the lower right. The dark border adds a neat fram...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10'2'' x 12'6'' - 310 x 380 )

19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet with Tone-on-Tone Pattern 9'2'' x 11'8'' - 280 x 355

Antique Chinese - Peking rugs, Size: 8' 10'' x11' 10''.

Antique Chinese Peking rug , Size: 9' 0'' x 11' 5''.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 3'2'' x 4'10'' - 97 x 147 )

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 4' 6'' x 7' 6'' - 137 x 2528 cm )

Antique Chinese - Peking rugs, size: 9' 3'' x 12' 2''.

Chinese Art Deco. Measures: 9'2" x 11'6".   

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 9' 2' x 11' 10''.

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with Fuchsia color and 9'2" x 11'8" size.

1920s Chinese Peking Carpet (4' x 6' 9'' - 122 x 206 cm )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, Size: 2' 6'' x 8' 10''.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 4' x 6'8'' - 122 x 203 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 9'0" x 11'6".

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 9'0" x 12'0".

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'8" - 280 x 355 cm )

An antique Peking rug originating from China circa 1920-1930. Hand-knotted wool, the 8x9 rug exhibits exemplary Chinese Deco sensibilities with a pervasive p...

A charming Chinese Art Deco rug with a gray field surrounded by a violet border. The field depicts a flowering cherry tree perched above a scholars rock at the edge of a garden. The ...

Beautiful square scatter size golden antique Chinese rug, country of origin / rug type: Chinese rug, date circa 1900. Size: 2 ft 6 in x 2 ft 6 in (0.76...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 8" x 5' 11".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 5' x 7'9'' - 153 x 236 )

Hutton Wilkinson is one of the world’s reigning masters of high style decorating. He first trained with, and then became the business partner of, the ...

Antique Chinese - Peking rugs, size: 8' 0'' x 9' 7''.

Beautiful late 20th century Chinese rug with nice Chinese Art Deco design and light colors with yellow, green, blue and pink, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundat...

1920s Oval Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5'2" x 7'8" - 157 x 233 cm )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, Size: 9' 0'' x11' 4''.

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 11" x 6' 0".

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 8'10" x 11'8".

Are you looking for a new carpet to enhance your living room or bedroom? This Beautiful rug could make the perfect accessory. This elegant wool needlepoint is a classic example of a modern Portuguese style rug woven by hand in China in the early 21st century. The design features a symmetrical central pattern woven in accents of pink, red and beige on a subtle cream background. This has been framed by a repeating scroll pattern woven in the same colours, finished with a fringed edge that encloses the whole piece. This attractive wool rug was constructed with only the finest hand-spun wool and cotton that have been dyed with organic vegetable dyeing techniques that have been used for generations. Master weavers employ traditional techniques in the construction creating highly durable carpets that are sure to last for decades if cared for correctly. This piece is in excellent condition, ready for use in any home. Traditional Handwoven Needlepoint Area Rug...

Rare square little Chinese Ningxia carpet, simple and elegant for everywhere.