Early 20th Century Central Asian Rugs

An antique Central Asian Tekke rug. From the most important Turkmen weaving tribe in Turkmenistan, this blood red nomadic rug displays five columns of ele...

an early 20th century tribal ersari rug in green and brown with a mini khani pattern often found in 19th century caucasian rugs Details rug no. j3942 size 10' 3" x 12' 10" (312 x 39...

Antique Textile Suzani 7'1'' x 8'5''.

Exceptional Antique Art Deco rug Extraordinaire Fine Mandarin Walter Nichols Purple 9' x 11'6" 275cm x 351cm Circa 1920 "This is an Amazing One of a kind Antique Art Deco Walter...

1920 Walter Nichols Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug Handmade Tree of Life 9x12 1920 9' x 11'6" 275cm x 351cm "This is a magnificent unique antique Art Deco rug. It has a fine qu...

Hand-knotted in a luxurious wool pile and originating from China circa 1920-1930, this 16x20 antique Chinese Art Deco Rug is an especially rare and collectible oversized addition to ...

A phenomenal room size full pile condition Chinese Art Deco Rug from the 1930s. Measures: 9' x 11'6''.

9x12 Rare Antique Art Deco Rug Chinese Rug Chinese Rug 1920 Handmade Circa 1920 9'1" x 11'5" 275cm x 361cm "This is a magnificent unique antique Art Deco rug. It has a fine quali...

Culturally Rich Antique Uzbek Suzani Embroidery Textile, Country of origin: Uzbekistan, Circa date: 1900

Made with hand-knotted wool and originating from China circa 1920-1930, this 10x13 antique Chinese Art Deco Rug is a rare and exciting new curation in Rug & Kilim’s collection of Chi...

9x12 Rare Antique Art Deco Rug Chinese Rug Chinese Rug 1920 Handmade Circa 1920 9' x 11'10" 275cm x 361cm "This is a magnificent unique antique Art Deco rug. It has an incredibl...

"Exquisite early 20th-century Chinese rug featuring a stunning design. The centerpiece boasts a majestic dragon surrounded by four animals on a beige field, adorned with intricate bl...

Antique Art Deco Rug Handmade Chinese Rug 10x13 1920 9'9" x 12'8" 298cm x 386cm "This is a beautiful antique art deco rug with simple motifs. This piece has a great neutral colorwa...

an early 20th century Samarkand Khotan Rug with an all over vase design highlighted with bright pink and lime green accent colors. Details rug no. j4367 size 5' 7" x 11' 9" (170 x ...

Full plush pile Chinese Batou Animal Pictorial design rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century Measure: 4'4'' x 6'9''.

Vintage Bezalel handmade wool rug Size: 11'2" × 11'5" (340 × 347 cm) An early 20th century Bezalel antique rug, the caramel field with a spacious all-over lattice of stepped lozenges...

High-quality Vintage Bessarabian abstract handmade wool rug. Size: 9'3" × 9'10" (281 × 299 cm) A Bessarabian rug, the taupe field with stars and an enlarged diamond framing a central...

Antique Suzani Rug 6'2" x 7'11.

A grand example with very fine silk embroidery.

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from China circa 1920-1930, this 8x10 antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a rare collectible from the 1920s Chinoiserie style period pieces, and one ...

Finely embroidered and unusual with a large medallion.

A practical variation on the flat-weave Kilim, this Caucasian coverlet, or jajim, features a bold, inherently versatile pattern of multi-width stripes perfectly suited for Mid-Century Modern interiors. Ochre and umber stripes with narrow outlines decorate the fiery cinnabar ground while creating a stylish and sophisticated pattern yet totally understated. These graphic stripes, which would be equally at home in a western design repertoire, still manage to retain their rustic sensibilities. Hidden variations give the seemingly balanced stripes an inconspicuous asymmetric repeat. Pinstripe accents in neutral hues of white and walnut brown emphasise the boldly banded stripes and offset the high-chroma ground. Like many of the most sought-after tribal textiles, this Caucasian Jajim has natural modernity and a Minimalist aesthetic imbued with ethnographic qualities that enliven modern interiors. This piece is in great condition, ready for use in any home interior. Handmade Kilim rugs, antique wool Jajim...

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...

It is silk embroidery on a silk background.

It does not come with an insert but comes with a bag made to the size and out of cotton to accommodate the filling for each. The backing is made of linen. Please note: filling is ...

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.

An early 20th century Chinese Pictorial rug Measures: 3'7' x 5'3''.

An exotic color room size Chinese Art Deco Rug from the 1930s. Measures: 8'10" x 11'6''

Hand-knotted in wool and believed to originate from China circa 1920-1930, this 16x28 antique Chinese rug is a rare oversized masterpiece, and an exciting new curation from our colle...

A tribal balouch rug from the early 20th century in brown and orange accents, circa 1930 Measures: 2'6” x 3'10”.

This is an Antique Chinese Rug Peking woven in China during the first quarter of the 20th century circa 1900 -1920s and measures 163 x 94CM in size. This rug has a highly unique desi...

Beautiful Antique Marbediah Israeli handknotted wool rug with a Roseberry color field. This piece has a beige frame and multicolor accents in an all-over geometric floral design. ...

A very unusual design for its group.

This suzani is embroidered on a silk background. It is an early 20th c example of probably Ferghana Valley suzanis in Uzbekistan.

This suzani is an example to the group of suzanis done in Tashkent Uzbekistan, are called ‘moon sky’ (Ai palak). Technically ther are all done in basma stitch...

It is a finely embroidered example with a bold design. Silk embroidery on cotton.

A neat example of its group, this Suzani is in very good condition.

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.

This wall hanging is all over hand-embroidered Suzani design, silk & cotton ground and the embroidery thread is 100% silk. Suzani, which means "embroidery" in Uzbek, began around ...

1st Quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a large-scale dragon motif. The wool is soft, Texture and patina are fabulous. Can also make for a suitable wall hanging. Measure...

2nd quarter of the 20th century Tibetan Rug with 4 deers on orange ground Details rug no. j3424 size 3' 2" x 5' 1" (97 x 155 cm)

Silk embroidery on a silk background. It could use a lining and it can be done upon request.

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 ...

An early 20th-century Chinese Pictorial rug with an animal motif in light blue, navy and ivory Measures: 2'3' x 4'5''.

Unusual for its group with this particularly graphic and bold design. In reasonably good condition apart from some corrousion in the embroidery done in white silk on the negative space.

an early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco Square Rug 8'1'' x 9'6''

pair of small kilims, which were perhaps originally the sides of two saddlebags, later eliminated because were worn out. They were woven by nomads with the wool they had available: f...

This early 20th-century vintage Turkmen Tekke area rug features a sophisticated allover geometric medallion pattern, known as “Tekke Guls” artfully arranged on a warm brick-red groun...

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...

An accent size early 20th century Persian Veramin rug in predominantly blue Measures: 4'4" x 6'4".

An accent size early 20th century Persian Veramin rug in predominantly brown Measures: 4'6" x 6'5".

Rare Tibetan antique carpet from my private collection - blue ground with three floral medallions - rich coral geometrical border with little flowers ...

Antique Tibetan carpet from my private collection: dark grey with three big pink flowers - The blue color has a special long preparation proce...

This large antique Bokhara rug was handwoven in the Early 20th Century. It is remarkable for its beautifully aged surface, giving it an appearance of a weathered painting. The design...

Rust-orange, brown, red and ivory make up the main colors in this elegant wool Jajim. Wove by hand with a stripe geometric design. Both the color and pattern make this piece easy to ...

It does not come with an insert but comes with a bag made to the size and out of cotton to accommodate the filling for each. The backing is made of linen. Please note: filling is n...

This truly tribal antique felt represents one of the oldest crafts practiced by man since the domestication of sheep and one vital to life on the often harsh Eurasian steppe. Central...

Handknotted in wool and originating in East Turkestan circa 1920-1930, this oversized 13x18 antique Samarkand Rug is among the most exciting new curations from Rug & Kilim’s collecti...

Made with hand-knotted wool in China circa 1900-1910, this 9x11 antique Chinese rug is a rare Peking rug of exceptional beauty and quality—an exciting new curation from Rug & Kilim’s...

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...

What looks to be an early 20th century tiny rug mat from central Asia, most probably from the Khotan region from East Turkestan. A lion standing alone on ivo...

Ancient saddlebag of Central Asian nomads. The corners are already mended, but I didn't want to intervene: it seemed right to me this way. It has beautiful original colors. nr. 857.

nr. 243 - - This is an antique typical nomadic rug that nomads sit under the leather saddle. It's antique, so there are no longer the two side strips to put around the horse's neck....

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

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".

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...

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

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...

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

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

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....