20th Century Central Asian Rugs

Floral motif Pictorial mid 20th century Tibetan rug Measures: 3'1" x 5'1".

Woven by hand with a traditional motif design. This piece has been constructed with an orange and deep blue colour palette with accents of green. The design has a repeating central p...

They do not come with an insert but a bags made to the size to accomodate insert materials. Linen in the back zipper closure dry cleaning is recomended.

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Made with hand-knotted wool and originating from East Turkestan circa 1930-50, this 5x9 Samarkand rug is an exciting entry to Rug & Kilim’s repertoire of Vintage Oriental creations. ...

It does not come with an insert but with a bag made from a plain cotton fabric to accommodate insert materials. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry cleaning is reccommended.   

A vintage 4x9 Kilim rug in beige-brown and pink, handwoven in wool originating from Afghanistan circa 1950-1960. Enjoying a unique marriage of pile and flat weave techniques lending ...

An early 20th-century Chinese run in the palest blue color Measures: 2'11'' x 5'.

Discover the elegance of India item featuring Small Rug in Circa 1990. Designed with Wool and BlueBrown, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

Colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century feauturing a bright orange field Measures: 3'2'' x 5'6''.

Discover the elegance of Afghanistan Kilim featuring Area Rugs in Circa 1990. Designed with Wool and BlueGreenRed, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

The Suzani textiles from Uzbekistan represent the most refined and elegant manifestation of the Central Asian textile art tradition. Exquisite embroideries such as this one were wove...

Nice vintage small Pakistani rug with a Turkmen geometrical design and nice colours with a blue field, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool on cotton foundation ✨✨✨ "Experien...

Featuring intricately woven motifs and emblems on a mixture of beige and pink backgrounds through the centre. A highly detailed layered border then encloses the handmade Aubusson car...

Antique Tekke Turkmen rug of traditional design, the rug is of a rich red/brown colour with cochineal highlights Circa 1900 The rug has a traditional Tekke gul design with 3 rows of...

Handmade Vintage Uzbek Bukhara Rug: Design and Craftsmanship: This rectangular rug, hailing from the 1950s, showcases the enduring allure of traditional Uzbek craftsmanship. Measuri...

74665, vintage Afghan Balouch War rug with Tribal Nomadic style. This hand knotted wool vintage Afghan Balouch War rug possibly depicts a scene of the Minaret ...

Suzani is a traditional embroidery technique that involves intricate needlework, typically with colored silk threads, to create beautiful, elaborate patterns. This one is made from ...

Stunning circa 1930's Chinese pictorial rug with a large deer and bird on a deep blue ground Measures: 2'5" x 4'6".

A huge sized rug with design in style of Farahan or Sultanabad. This beautiful rug was hand knotted. The background is in an elegant beige color with floral designs. Farahan design rugs are very looked after since they go well with many Interior styles such Traditional, Farmhouse, Hollywood Regency, Industrial, vintage Boho and Art Deco. The appearance of this rug is excellent. • Beautiful vintage rug • All hand knotted • Hand spun wool • Condition: Very good, fresh washed Our rugs are shipped from Germany. Measures: 18 x 13 ft. Ziegler Sultanabad carpets have their origins in ancient Persia. It was named after the Anglo-Swiss company Ziegler & Co. based in Manchester. From the mid-1880s it was a producer and dealer in carpets from Persia and had production facilities in the Azerbaijan / Tabriz region, Sarough Sultanabad (today Arak) and Mahal. In contrast to the more colorful rugs of earlier eras, Ziegler rugs were made in softer and often lighter tones. The knot density was medium fine, the wool quality very good. Today, original Ziegler carpets are sought-after. Ziegler carpets are currently being knotted in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India and are sold under the following names: Ziegler Carpet, Ziegler Farahan, Ziegler Mahal and Ziegler Arijana. The designs are often based on the originals, the colors are often reduced to a few shades within a carpet. This creates rugs with calm elegance, which refine a room in a modern, upscale furnishing style, ideal as a decorative but calm design element. In addition to designs from Farahan, Mahal, Sultanabad, Oushak and Khotan motifs are also used in modern Ziegler carpets. High-quality new sheep's wool is used as the base material for the wear layer. This comes from the region (Ghanzi wool) as well as from New Zealand. The color pigments are of natural origin (vegetable colors) in higher-quality qualities. Typical colors of Ziegler carpets are beige, rut, grey, blue, black and green. A special wash gives the carpets a light vintage look and a subtle sheen. Coarser and cheaper Ziegler carpets are often referred to as Chubi Ziegler carpets, fine and finest Ziegler carpets as Ariana or Aryana / Arijana Ziegler carpets. Ziegler carpets are knotted in many formats. In Europe, the most common are 180 x 120 cm or 6 x 4 ft, 200 x 150 cm or 7 x 5 ft, 240 x 300 cm or 8 x 10 ft, 300 x 200 cm or 10 x 7 ft, 360 x 270 cm. or 12 x 9 ft Our customers in the USA and Great Britain are more often looking for oversized in 15 x 12 ft...

A very decorative pair of pillows made from an antique rug fragment. Original filling included. The original backing appears to be made of burlap cloth or "toile de jute". Very go...

Both the colour, design and construction of this fine wool rug make it the perfect accent piece. This piece is an excellent large medallion design woven in cream and deep blue on a r...

Beautiful mid century Chinese beijing Art Deco design rug with beautiful design and nice colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotto...

Measures: 6'8 x 9'5. Vintage Hand Knotted Tukomen Ersari Rug in Red Background With Gul Design. Keivan Woven Arts; rug W22-0207, country of origin / type: Turkestan / Ersari, circa ...

This 10x11 vintage Afghan Kilim is believed to be a traditional Ghalmouri rug, handwoven in wool circa 1970-1980. On the Design: Admirers of Ghalmouri Kilims may appreciate this ...

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...

A 20th century Chinese silk rug, with a simple Art Deco design, very decorative and finely hand knotted with silk velvet on silk foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of luxury an...

A vintage Central Asian tribal Turkoman room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 10" x 12' 4".

Hand-knotted in wool and originating in East Turkestan circa 1930-50, this 5x9 Vintage Samarkand Rug is among the most exciting new curations from Rug & Kilim’s collection of rare cl...

Discover the elegance of Afghanistan Moroccan featuring Over Size Rug in Circa 1990. Designed with Wool and BrownIvory, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

This is an early 20th C over all densely embroidered Suzani from Tashkent , Uzbekistan. It has been fused and lined with plain cotton fabric.  

Karim Rashid - 'Abstract 003 Blue' Rug 6' x 9' Material: 100% Wool Enhance your home with an extraordinary rug designed by Karim Rashid. One of the most prolific designers of our...

Block printing in uzbekistan called ‘ chitgarlik’ and the block printer called a ‘chitgar’. Uzbek block prints unlike the most prints from Persia, and india are done on a coarse ha...

Nice little vintage Turkmen Baluch rug with beautiful geometrical and tribal design and nice colours, entirely hand knotted with wool on wool foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome...

Chinese Nichols art deco scatter size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 3' x 5'

Full pile large Chinese Art Deco rug plum border, blue field Measures: 10' x 19'1".

Dragon Rug Pillar Column Rug Chinese Dragon Hallway Stairway Runner Dragon Rug - they were used as pillar column rugs. Chinese temple design for hall...

A fine-quality antique Tibetan throw-size pictorial rug. Would make for a great wall hanging too Measures: 2'5" x 5'

53619 Vintage Muted Turkish Oushak Rug, 04'08 x 07'00. Antique-washed Turkish Oushak rugs with subdued colors are Oushak rugs that have undergone a specialized washing process withou...

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....

It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry Cleaning is reccommended.  

Cotton embroidery on a cotton background.

This is an early 20th C over all densely embroidered Suzani from Tashkent , Uzbekistan. It has been fused and lined with plain cotton fabric.  

They do not come with inserts but bags made to the size to accommodate insert materials. Linen in the back. Zipper closure.

It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry Cleaning is reccommended.  

Late 20th-century narrow Tibetan Runner Measures: 1'7'' x 8'4''

Karim Rashid - 'Abstract 003 Grey' Rug 6' x 9' Material: 100% Wool Enhance your home with an extraordinary rug designed by Karim Rashid. One of the most prolific designers of our...

It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry cleaning is reccommended.      

Ivory background is rarer to comedy among the vintage suzanis. The work is very good. 1970s.

Pretty mid century Chinese Beijing rug with nice Chinese Art Deco design and beautiful colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experienc...

A handsome early 20th century Central Asian Khotan rug with three circular medallions in the center amidst a field of stylized flowers and trees-of-life surrounded by a border contai...

It is made from an Early 20th C.. Ikat fragment. It does not come with an insert. Cotton in the back. Zipper closure. Dry Clean only.

A 2nd quarter of the 20th Century Tibetan Rug featuring an animal pictorial motif on an orange ground color Measures: 2'10" x 5'2''.

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 cleaning is recommended.

Nice antique Suzani from Uzbekistan early 20th century entirely hand embroidered with beautiful design and colors, silk embroidered on cotton foundation.

They do not come with inserts but bags made to the size to accommodate insert materials. Linen in the back zipper closure Dry cleaning is recommended.

An early 20th century Chinese Peking Dragon motif rug with a spacious open field design on an ivory ground Measures: 7'3'' x 9'7'' Chinese dragons are an important and powerful...

Measures: 5' x 7'7. This enchanting east Chinese rug incorporates five symbols of longevity: the deer, the crane, a tree, rocks and water. Originally of Chinese origin, the symbols took on a secular presence within Tibetan art. The four corners contain objects that are artistic and scholarly in nature. The rug was probably intended to bring the owner the good fortune of a long life matched with great intelligence and artistic ability. Antique Chinese pictorial rug with deer...