Fabric Chinese and East Asian Rugs

A 2nd quarter of the 20th century Tibetan Animal Pictorial Carpet Size 3' x 5' 7" (91 x 170 cm).

1920s Chinese Peking Carpet

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 )

1920s Antique Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" X 11'6" - 266 x 350 ) Floral pattern with Navy background.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'2" - 275 x 340 )

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...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 5' 0" x 7' 11", showcases an elegant oval composition with a rich lavender field that exudes warmth and sophistication. The bord...

A rare and unusual red ground Chinese rug decorated by an infinite repeat pattern composed of a network of geometric devices derived from silk brocades of the Ming period. Examples o...

Chinese Silk & Metal Thread Rug – Imperial Garden Scene – 307 × 243 cm (10' 1" × 7' 11") This rare and exquisite Chinese rug, measuring 307 × 243 cm, is woven from silk and enriched ...

19th Century W. Chinese Kansu Runner Carpet 3'8" x 17'3".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 14'2" x 19'9" - 432 x 602 )

Enchanting floral design early 20th century Chinese Art Deco carpet in an odd size wide gallery room size format. Measures: 7'6'' x 14'5''.

An early 20th-century Chinese Peking carpet in tan and blue colors featuring a whimsical motif. circa 1920 measures: 4'1'' x 5'9"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet Size: 9' x 11' 6"

This antique Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-knotted with wool and features a burgundy red field with a navy blue multicolor floral design. The classic Chinese floral pattern is elegant...

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...

Oval Art Deco Chinese rug in original good condition. The rug is made in wool, quite thick and soft.  

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a muted cranberry field surrounded by a wide indigo border, and all overlaid with multi-colored peonies and lotus flowers, wi...

Handmade in wool, a delicious 8x10 needlepoint rug from Rug & Kilim’s coveted European style rug collection. This transitional rug enjoys an awe inspiring floral pattern in beige-bro...

An early 20th Century Chinese rug with an animal motif on a navy field Measures: 4'4'' x 6'10''.

With a minimalist floral pattern inspired by a rare botanical design with bamboo trees in green and blue, on a beige field and gold border, this 12x15 Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-kn...

A beautiful contemporary abstract modern design rug, hand knotted using finest Chinese mulberry silk in 8 x 6 ft size. By Djoharian Design. Modern desiger rug Qashqai Lion...

A terrestrial/aquatic dragon rises from stylized waves while a celestial dragon descends from fungus whorl clouds with two flaming pearls in the plain areas of this black on black Ar...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'9" x 11'6"- 267 x 351 )

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Throne Back Dragon Rug 2' 3" x 2' 3" - 68 x 68

Designed by Adam Charlap Hyman and inspired by 17th-century cabinets of curiosity, Tigre is a fanciful, uniquely modern take on a tiger trophy rug. Featuring black and natural-colored stripes formed from hand-coiled abaca...

51403 Blue and beige vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Chinoiserie style. Embodying European sensibility with an artful balance between warm and inviting, this hand-knotted vintage Tur...

Antique Dragon rug Chinese Peking Khotan SilkTapestry Brown 4'3" x 6'3" 130cmx191cm Circa 1880 "This incredible rare Antique piece is a fine ...

77206 vintage Chinese floral needlepoint rug with French Country style. Various flower species grace the windows of an all-over compartment sty...

A rare and unusual Chinese rug decorated with an all-over pattern of eight-petalled rosettes, joined together to form a lattice in the negative of which is the longevity motif, that ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10" x 11'6" - 270 x 350 )

Deco Crane is a small runner rug is part of Joseph Carini's collection of 3x6s carpets. Inspired by Art Deco sensibility and East Asian designs, this carpet is a wonderful colorful a...

79168 Antique Blue Chinese Art Deco Rug, 07'10 x 09'08. In the golden hush of the 1920's, when East met West in a symphony of style and spirit, this hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug was born—a woven reverie crafted in the famed looms of Tianjin or Beijing. With its deep indigo blue field, it evokes the velvet hush of twilight skies over Peking’s imperial rooftops, a stillness pierced only by the whisper of silk robes and the distant chime of temple bells. Suspended across this tranquil sea are three circular medallions, blooming like celestial seals—guardians of symmetry, echoing ancient Chinese roundels...

Rug Number 31404 Size 8' 0" X 9' 8" Design Peking Collection Antique/Vintage Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin China Age Antique

A Tibetan tiger rug, hand knotted in Nepal. This traditional Tiger rug design is typically found on antique rugs called Khaden. It describes a small sized rug of about 3 x 6 ft that was used in Tibet to decorate columns or seat pad. Often these Khaden rugs had Lotus design or Tiger stripes. Many of them were made in a town called Kampa Dzong in Tibet, today in China. Tiger motifs are also found in antique Chinese rugs. Our collection of Tibetan Tiger rugs is made in different material combinations. The displayed rug is made of 100% Tibetan hand spun wool. Total pile height about 1/2-inch, Knot density 60 Tibetan knots per square inch. It has a beige background color and motifs in turquoise, pink, green, red and olive I have one at home using it as Yoga Mat...

Antique Circa 1923 Taupy-Gray Chinese Art Deco Hand Knotted Rug 8'10 X 11'2. As the term implies, true Chinese Deco carpets were woven in a s...

Dragon design rug wool and silk in style of Chinese Kansu carpets 5 x 3.3 ft. A beautiful contemporary dragon design rug, hand knotted using finest Chinese mulberry silk (80%) and...

A pillow made from an early 20th century Chinese Peking rug with a pictorial motif. Measures: 15" x 21".

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a tone-on-tone gray field surrounded by a wide gray border, and indigo scholar's vases in opposing corners each potted with auspicious...

A fine Peking type carpet woven by an honeycomb arrangement of polychrome lozenges with an almost random color distribution. Carpets of this type are representative of an early 20th...

Exquisite Beijing Chinese rug adorned with a captivating design and vibrant colors. Meticulously hand-knotted with wool velvet on a cotton foundation. The intricate pattern, featurin...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 2' 3" x 4' 6", showcases a minimalist yet sophisticated design. Featuring a solid blue field with subtle tonal variations, the r...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 4'' - 275 x 345 cm )

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 5' 10" x 8' 7", features a striking composition with a deep burgundy field that exudes warmth and elegance. The spacious central...

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with an art deco style design and nice colours with a beige orange field, pink, orange, purple, green, yello...

Beautiful oversize antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a Goldenrod field, navy -blue frame in an all-over classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures 12' x ...

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with an art deco style design and nice colours with a beige field, pink, orange, purple, green, grey and blue, entirely hand knotted with wool on co...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug, size: 2'6" x 5'0".

19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 12' x 15'6" - 365 x 472 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet, Size: 8'x9' 6"

A 3rd quarter of the 20th-century highly decorative Tibetan rug with a large double dragon motif. Size: 3'3'' x 5''7'.

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a bold fuchsia ground overlaid with myriad auspicious peonies and flowers, ...

31331 Modern Chinese Art Deco Dragon Rug, 09'11 x 13'05. This hand-knotted wool modern Chinese Art Deco dragon rug is a mesmerizing work of art, intricately designed to capture the e...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'6" - 245 x 290

A blue ground rug with an ascending pattern of stylised clouds woven by Nichols & Co, a leading American company based in Tianjin known for its very sturdy and hardwearing rugs, usua...

A Carini Classic, this Tiger Caramel is the perfect accent rug for your space! Designed by Joseph Carini, this has been a mainstay in his collection for over 20 years. Shown here in ...

A colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century with a colorful dragon motif Measures: 3'1'' x 5'1''.

This beautifully handwoven Aubusson rug is sure to make a great accent piece in any room it’s introduced too. An ivory blue color makes up the background of this elegant area rug. Th...