Central Asian Rugs

Elevate your home decor with this exquisite Red Vintage Traditional Kohtan Wool Rug - 4'6" x 9'4" handwoven rug, crafted from luxurious handspun wool. With a traditional design inspi...

Elevate your home decor with this exquisite Orange Vintage Traditional Wool Kohtan Rug - 5'4" x 10'8" handwoven rug, crafted from luxurious handspun wool. With a traditional design i...

Elevate your home decor with this exquisite Orange Vintage Traditional Kohtan Wool Rug - 5'3" x 10'3" handwoven rug, crafted from luxurious handspun wool. With a traditional design i...

The borderless, charcoal, abrashed field shows giant, floating medallions with mountainous edges, with lesser nested or patterned lozenges toward one end. Thick pile. Many elements h...

Antique Karabagh Rug Size: 6'1" × 12'5" (185 × 378 cm). An early 20th century Karabagh handmade rug features a fabulous allover design, consisting mainly of flowers, leaves and flowe...

A Mamluk wool rug in a gray field with allover floral designs. This hand-knotted modern piece has blue and beige accents that complement the design. This rug measures 16'7" x 24'.

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...

Vibrance rugs epitomize classic with a twist: traditional patterns overdyed in brilliant color. Each hand-knotted rug is washed in a 100%-natural botanical dye that reveals hidden nu...

Aziza is a warm and lustrous wool rug with a glow of earthy tones and irregular shapes. This pile weave has embossed textures and unique tassel detailing which makes this piece highl...

Beautiful hand-knotted flat-weave kilim wool rug. This rug has a light brown field in an all-over trellis design. This rug measures 12'1" x 15'1".

A Magnificently Artistic and Captivating Light Blue Background Charcoal Color Tribal Geometric Pattern Modern Area Rug, Country of Origin: Central Asia, Circa Date: Modern Rug

Contemporary Bessarabian inspired design rug in black, brown, red and white wool by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 8'10" × 12'2" (269 × 370 cm) Can a household be truly complete without a c...

Rug Number 29887 Size 9' 0" X 12' 1" Design Meliska Collection Atlas Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin Central Asia Age New

100 % hand spun wool, on a wool foundation. this is one of three pieces designed by Hans Boujaran. Rug's wool has a high saturation of lanolin that makes it very forgiving and stain...

This hand-knotted Moroccan-style rug is made from wool and showcases a captivating minimalist aesthetic. It features a naturally hued ivory background. This rug measures 8' x 10'.

The Bisous Collection by FORM Design Studio The eight carpets in the collection are inspired by the ways in which human beings express themselves: language, poetry, art, and archite...

The abrashed, medium brown field supports three columns of six, octagonal, quartered Ongurghe tribal guls each, with minor Sekis-sagdak guls even interspersed. Two major borders: on...

Meliska' is a captivating textured rug with irregular motifs inspired from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Earthy tones of ivory, taupe, cerulean blue and chocolate brown surrounded by umber brown shag work cohesively to make for a great contemporary interpretation for the modern design world. Mehraban's Atlas collection...

Maziere is a handwoven wool piece with unique design elements that mirror roman masonry. This luxurious striped brown and cream pile weave and blue-gray shag make for the perfect con...

Vibrance rugs epitomize classic with a twist: traditional patterns overdyed in brilliant color. Each hand-knotted rug is washed in a 100%-natural botanical dye that reveals hidden nu...

nr. 694 - Very pleasant and robust oriental kilim. the diagonal design, uncommon and accurate, demonstrates the skill of the weaver. Excellent quality wool. Can be set anywhere.

Malaren' is a luxurious wool rug with timeless embossed detailing. In addition to its perfect natural flat weave, Malaren has neutral tone shags that brings a lustrous texture and co...

Malaren is a luxurious wool rug with timeless embossed detailing. In addition to its perfect natural flat weave, Malaren has earthy tone shags that brings a lustrous texture and cont...

Sorkhadar is gorgeous wool with amorphous linear shapes in subtle gradations of brown, ivory, and cream. Its embossed handwoven wool features a series of free-spirited rugs that fee...

A Decorative and Artistic Light Neutral Warm Color Tribal Geometric Design Modern Room Size Rug, Country Of Origin: Central Asia, Circa Date: Modern Rug

Benhaddou is a beautiful textured rug with embossed detailing into an overall geometric and contemporary design. Line work moving irregularly brings movement and are inspired by the ...

Rug Number 29869 Size 9' 9" X 13' 8" Design Byzacena Collection Atlas Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin Central Asia Age New

Halfah' is a natural earth toned pile weave and modern day interpretation of the Moroccan world. The rugs irregular shapes and strokes resemble the fibers of nature and their ability...

Meliska' is an exquisitely textured rug with irregular motifs inspired from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Earthy tones of ivory and chocolate brown surrounded by umber brown shag w...

Berberis is an interplay between neutral tones and soothing muted colors into a modern-day interpretation of the Moroccan world. This rug's play of textures, linework, and simplicity...

Handwoven in wool, originating from Afghanistan circa 1950-1960, its 2x5 size and design may signify origins as a table design—sometimes used for dining given their durability compar...

Rug Number 28098 Size 10' 0" X 14' 0" Design Bonbons Collection Bisous Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin Nepal Age New

A Decorative Ivory Cream Color Background Large Size Modern Rustic Tribal Grid Pattern Geometric Design Area Rug, Country Of Origin: Central Asia, Circa Date: Modern Rug

Vibrance rugs epitomize classic with a twist: traditional patterns overdyed in brilliant color. Each hand-knotted rug is washed in a 100%-natural botanical dye that reveals hidden nu...

Inspired by the grounding foundations of Earth's natural colors and pure materials, the Zameen Collection features a wide array of Mid-century modern motifs in soft neutral tones. Ha...

nr. 524 - Old nomadic kilim from Kurdestan; wool dyed with natural substances and geometrical design: simple but effective. Nice size that can be set anywhere. Now with a good price...

Contemporary Samarkand traditional design handmade wool rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 13'0" × 16'7" (396 × 505 cm) Few contemporary rugs can rival the beauty of this stunning Samark...

Vintage Samarkand Handmade Wool Rug Size: 8'11" × 10'3" (271 × 312 cm) A knotted Khotan/Samarkand wool rug in very good condition consistent with age and wear. It was hand-made in t...

The eight carpets in the collection are inspired by the ways in which human beings express themselves: language, poetry, art, and architecture. Bisous is intended as a celebration--a...

A Captivating Bold Graphic and Primitive Tribal Geometric Design Modern Room Size Area Rug , Country of Origin: Central Asia, Circa Date: Modern Rug

Hand-knotted wool, this 5x7 contemporary rug draws inspiration from botanical designs—where a mix of blues with floral patterns creates the look of a pond or marsh at night On the D...

The natural ecru field shows five columns of vertically connected, small octagonal, quartered guls, with columns of floating small chemche secondary guls between. Wide border system...

Contemporary floral Bessarabian design handmade wool rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 13.7" × 14.10" (414 × 452 cm). This enchanting modern rug, although presently made, is permeated ...

Rug Number 27019 Size 9' 1" X 12' 1" Design Le Secret, Bisous Collection Collection Bisous Material Wool & Silk Texture Pile Weave Origin Nepal Age New

Modern Bassarabian Botanic design hand knotted wool rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 13'0" × 20'5" (396 × 622 cm). This stunning Bessarabian rug is a dream come true of any art lover...

Tamarix is made of luxurious wool and is made of timeless design elements. It's weaving of earthy colors and modern design elements are what makes the Atlas Collection so unique and ...

Contemporary oversized Floral Bessarabian inspired rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 19'10" × 23'10" (604 × 726 cm). The area rug before your eyes is not only beautiful but also intrigu...

Vibrance rugs epitomize classic with a twist: traditional patterns overdyed in brilliant color. Each hand-knotted rug is washed in a 100%-natural botanical dye that reveals hidden nu...

Rug Number 17490 Size 2' 2" X 3' 0" Design D5390 Collection Muted Re-Creations Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin Afghanistan Age New

Mid-20th century Samarkand red, blue handmade wool rug. Size: 4'6" x 7'9" (137 x 236 cm). Samarkand rugs have an unusual warmth to them that manages even the most barren looking room...

Large Samarkand style geometric hand knotted wool rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 14'7" x 19'8" (444 x 599 cm). This majestic beauty is the essence of the best oriental weaving art. ...

Vintage Samarkand 'Khotan' brown, blue handmade wool rug. Size: 4'7" × 9'7" (139 × 292 cm) The city of Samarkand is well known for being the Islamic centre for scholarly study where ...

Meliska' is an exquisitely textured rug with irregular motifs inspired from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Earthy tones of ivory and chocolate brown surrounded by umber brown shag w...

Rug Number 30097 Size 9' 8" X 13' 4" Design Iriqui Collection Atlas Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin Central Asia Age New

Rug Number 30213 Size 12' 2" X 14' 11" Design Meliska Collection Seasons, Atlas Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin Central Asia Age New

Inspired by the grounding foundations of Earth's natural colors and pure materials, the Zameen Collection features a wide array of Mid-century modern motifs in soft neutral tones. Ha...

Contemporary Traditional inspired floral design rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 13.4" × 19.1" (406 × 581 cm). Inspirations for contemporary rugs can sometimes be found in the most un...

Rug Number 30960 Size 10' 0" X 14' 0" Design Malayer Collection Domicile Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin Central Asia Age New