Vintage Khotan Rug

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 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: 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...

Vintage Samarkand 'Khotan' Handmade Wool Rug Size: 5'4" × 8'10" (162 × 269 cm) Vintage Samarkand (Khotan) rug features an elaborate all-over design of floral and linear abstractions ...

Vintage Samarkand 'Khotan' Pale Dusty Pink, Beige, Brown Handmade Wool Rug Size: 5'2" × 10'7" (157 × 322 cm) A second quarter of the 20th century Samarkand (Khotan) carpet, the tan f...

Vintage Samarkand 'Khotan' camel and brown handwoven wool rug. Size: 6'3" × 11'4" (190 × 345 cm) The city of Samarkand is well known for being the Islamic centre for scholarly study ...

Khotan rugs are 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 rug...

One of a kind Khotan rug with a peculiar purple tone with a traditional geometric medallion design.

1930s vintage hand knotted wool Khotan rug with a tan/beige field and a medallion design. This rug measures 6'9" x 10'4".

Khotan rugs are 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 rug...

Khotan rugs are 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 rug...

Khotan rugs are 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 rug...