Chinese and East Asian Rugs

China has a long tradition of carpets and the original ones, probably used as merchandise, are dated at over 2000 years ago. The art of knotting carpets was however, introduced somewhere around the 15th century in China. The patterns on some of the older Chinese carpets...

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a champagne colored field surrounded by a white cranberry border, and overlaid with ...

A 3rd quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a dragon motif on a beige field Size: 4'4'' x 6'10''.  

On the lookout 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 has been delicately woven with a symmetrical pattern made up of brown and mustard accents on a subtle cream background. The border has been decorated with a repeating pattern design and is finished with a fringed edge. Constructed with only the best locally sourced materials with traditional techniques, this fine wool rug is sure to last for generations. The fine materials used include hand-spun wool and cotton that have been organically dyed with vegetable dyeing techniques. This rug is in excellent condition. Ready for use in any home or office environment. Traditional needlepoint rug...

This fine wool mat is the perfect front or back door accessory. Woven by hand with fine wool and cotton that has been dyed with organic vegetable dyeing techniques. The design features a simple beige background with a modern square stripe design. Our mats are handmade, woven not printed & are finished with a non-slip backing that keeps them in place to perform better than any other entrance mat made today. Suitable for both classic and contemporary home interiors. Both the colour palette and design are sure to uplift any small space. Excellent condition, ready for use in any home or office environment. Our team source only the finest interior accessories, with years of experience, let our team help you find the perfect accent pieces for your home interior. Our inventory includes a range of modern rugs, vintage rugs and antique rugs. With a huge range of colours and sizes available now. Small area rug...

Our MYSTIQUE COLLECTION impresses with a select palette of timeless colors and fine, carefully selected material. These fine pieces of contemporary art are hand-knotted by skilled ar...

A specific cluster of northern Indian rugs are inspired by antique Chinese weavings, and are often referred to as Indochine. Here wee see a very subtle palette on an ivory background...

Very beautiful large mid century Chinese rug, entirely and very finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation with pretty Chinese Art Deco design and beautiful colors, wi...

Art Deco Chinese design rug in beige, brown, taupe colors. Measure: 4 x 7 ft. The brown outlines of rosettes as well as the meandering brown lines running through angular leaves all...

A fabulous 1930’s Tibetan rug with a simple cloudband design on an open red field surrounded by a red and gold key border. Lovely wool quality and great colours! Size: 2.12m x 1.24m ...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a dragon in black, blue, red, goldenrod, and light blue-grey over a cream-white borderless field. Measures: 1' 3" x 1' 6" 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 vintage Portuguese Arraiolos needlepoint wool rug with a green field. This piece has fine details in a beige and yellow layout on a gorgeous floral pattern design. This...

A fabulous 1930’s Tibetan rug with a simple cloudband design on an open red field surrounded by a red and gold key border. One of a pair! Size: 2.11m x 1.24m (6ft 11in x 4'ft 1in) Th...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a champagne colored field surrounded by a contrasting champagne colored border, and both overlaid with indigo and pink cherry...

This late 19th century hand-knotted carpet features unique and vibrant Chinese Peking Dragon motifs throughout. Would make an excellent statement piece in a dressing room.

The straw beige field displays a characteristic three moon medallion pattern, with two moons enclosing octogramme motives. Supporting scatter with butterflies, leaves and flower arr...

Ningxia Pillar Rug, 2nd Half 18th Century Additional Information: Dimensions: 3'3" W x 13'4" L Condition: Cut and rejoined in two places. Slight lo...

Peking Carpet, Late 19th Century Additional Information: Dimensions: 11'2" W x 14'0" L Condition: Very good

Chinese-made pure wool and silk rug. The interplay of the two materials wool and silk give the rug a special glow that effectively recalls the tiger's fleec...

Our sun-faded rugs are all one-of-a-kind, hand-knotted, 50-70 year-old vintage pieces. They each boast their own singular handmade aesthetic drawn from the centuries-old Turkish rug-...

Made exclusively for Boralevi Gallery, entirely hand-knotted in Nepal from a work by Angela de Nozza. The juxtaposition of the hues and the elegant decoration are epressions of the...

Small hand-knotted wall carpet in China with silk weft, warp and fleece, refined in workmanship and colors, reproduces a work by Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow 1866 – Neuilly-sur-Seine 19...

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Kang Carpet ( 6' x 10'3" - 175 x 415 ) Ningxia or Suiyuan, North Central China K’ang Carpet Structural Analysis Warp: cotton, off-white, natural, handspun, Z-4-S; Weft: cotton, off white, natural, winder plied, Z-3-S. handspun, two shoots alternating; Pile: wool, Z-3 or Z-4; Knot: PL,no alternate warp depression, 5 ½ per horizontal inch x 5 per vertical inch = 27 ½ per square inch; Sides: recovered; Ends: n.o. Weft/knots: 50/50, even. Peach border, medallion and corners corroded; sapphire blue highest. Remarks. The golden yellow field employs the classic “grains of rice” pattern with brown pips, centered by a broadly drawn peach scalloped peony medallion and en-suite corners. The matching peach tone border has inward facing peonies in one, two or three colors with short arabesque segments between. There is no corner resolution with diagonal palmettes. The inner medium dark blue border is pearled and the outermost stripe is plain as is characteristic of rugs of the period. The peony corners are bold and direct, without a plethora of intrusive minor elements. The central peony wreath is pared down as well to the most important motives. The contrast in scale between the rice grains, a size independent pattern and the vastly larger scale medallion and corners is particularly striking. The rice pattern...

Beautiful Early 19th Century Antique Chinese Ningxia Shabby Chic Rug, Country Of Origin: China, Size: 5 ft 10 in x 11 ft 3 in (1.78 m x 3.43 m), Circa Date: 19th century

This contemporary box design with cool and inviting colors that are a combination of green, beige, sand and ivory colors makes for the perfect modern ...

Antique Peking rug 8'10'' x 11'11''.

This is an authentic handmade rug. It was made in China around the 1940s. The overall color pallet is ivory over. The materials are wool pile with cotton foundation. The colors are f...

A modern Turkish tantric accent rug from the 21st century with a pictorial design of a flayed man over a black field. Original versions were employed by ...

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan room Size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 11" x 12' 0".

Antique Peking rug. Measures : 8'10'' x 11'10''.

Introducing a magnificent masterpiece of the oriental world - the Imperial Palace Silk and Metal Rug! Hand-woven during the end of the 19th century pr...

Modern Surface Subtly floral brown, beige handmade silk rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 9'0" × 12'0" (274 × 365 cm). The great diversity of contemporary rugs, makes them one of the ...

A 2nd quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a pheonix dragon motif on a brown field Size: 3' x 5'8''.

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

Hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation. Signed by weaver, circa 1990 Dimensions: 6'6" x 8'5" Origin: China Condition: Excellent Fie...

A gorgeous early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with the most spirited champagne colored field surrounded by a wide fuchsia border, and all overlaid with multicolored peonies, chr...

Step into the enchanting world of timeless elegance with our exquisite Art Deco Rug, a true marvel from the 1920s that embodies the charm of a bygone era. Meticulously crafted in Chi...

This antique, circa 1900, Chinese Peking rug has an ivory field with an overall design of indigo-blue angular scrolling vine issuing light blue and indigo-blue flowerheads, in an ivory and indigo-blue interlocking lattice-weave border, inner ivory broad stripe with spaced double floral...

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, measures: 3'2" x 5'0".

An 4x6 rug inspired by Tudor flat weave styles, and the next addition to Rug & Kilim’s classic-style European Collection. Handwoven in fine wool. Further on the Design: This is an ...

30552, new contemporary Chinese Art Deco rug inspired by Walter Nichols. Channeling the famed Walter Nichols style of the 1920s and ...

This magnificent Chinese carpet knotted in the last century with silk and metal thread on a cotton warp and weft measuring 176x123 cm, is designed with the dual possibility of being ...

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 8" Chinese Rugs & Carpet: 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...

This transitional tribal handwoven rug boasts a beautiful Hawaiian style end to end multi-color motif on an ivory field. Size - 6' x 9' Color - Multi-color Type - Transitional ...

Rare Vintage Art Deco Rug Silk Chinese Rug Art Nouveau Handmade Rug Pink 8x11 244cm x 336cm "Magnificent silk vintage Chinese Art Deco-Soft t...

Hand-knotted wool & silk pile on a cotton foundation. Circa 1990 Dimensions: 12' x 15'2" Origin: China Field Color: Pale-Green, Camel Border Color: Black Accent Colors: Lig...

Very beautiful mid century Chinese beijing rug with beautiful Chinese Art Deco design and nice light colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ...

Contemporary S7 Tibetan Handmade rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 8'0" × 10'0" (243 × 304 cm) Tibetan rugs come in a wide range of sizes and designs. In recent years local weavers be...

Pictorial Antique Chinese Foo Dog Area Rug, Country of Origin: China, Circa date: 1880. Size: 6 ft x 7 ft 4 in (1.82 m x 2.23 m)   

Contemporary Flower Garden Beige Silk rug by Suzanne Lovell for Doris Leslie Blau Size: 9'0" × 12'0" (274 × 365 cm) Inspiration comes from many places, and this one was inspired by a...

Very beautiful mid century Chinese beijing rug with nice design with pictorial and beautiful colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Exp...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking 100 Antiques Carpet 7'3" x 8'4" - 220 x 255

Beautiful antique Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a beige color field. This Khotan rug has brown, yellow, and peach accents in a geometric multi-medallion design. This rug measur...

Designed by Adam Charlap Hyman and inspired by 17th-century cabinets of curiosity, Ballena is big on black-and-natural style. Hand-coiled abaca gives this...

Colorful late 20th century Tibetan rug Measures: 3'1" x 5'7".

Spectacular palace size Art Deco rug, circa 1920/1930's. The rug features a tan, or mustard, center field bordered in blue , then mustard again, it has a restrained floral motif thr...

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Dragon Pillar Carpet (2' 9'' x 9'-85 x 275 cm)

A design story of legacy and grace. A tribute to his grandparents, this was a particularly special rug for Omar to design. Fluidity, duality and functionality Hesina personifies a wi...