Fabric Chinese and East Asian Rugs

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

76872, vintage gold Tibetan area rug with Modern traditional style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Tibetan area rug features an all-over pattern of na...

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...

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 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 ...

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with an art deco style design and nice colours with a light purple field, orange, green, red , yellow and pu...

A late 20th-century one of a kind hand-knotted Chinese rug with a dragon motif Measures: 5'2'' x 8'1''

This hand-knotted wool rug showcases an exquisite Modern Art Deco design with a rich navy blue field accentuated by a broad goldenrod and brown frame. The intricate Chinese-style ele...

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

Nice mid century Chinese rug with beautiful Chinese design and nice colours with white, pink, blue, green and brown, entirely hand made by han...

Antique Peking rug Chinese Art Deco rug pink purple handmade Chinese rug 2x3 2'4" x 3'4" 71cm x 102cm "This is a beautiful antique...

This 21st-century East Turkestan Khotan rug, measuring 8' 8" x 11' 8", beautifully showcases the refined aesthetic of traditional Khotan weaving. The design features an elegant compo...

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

79071 Antique Chinese Peking Pictorial Rug, 02'00 x 03'11. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking pictorial rug masterfully captures the essence of traditional Chinese artistr...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Late 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Dragon Throne Back

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

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...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

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

Rhizomes 3 hand knotted rug by Charlotte Culot Edition: 8 Signed Dimensions: 155 x 190 cm Materials: Silk, wool, linen, allo Hand knotted. Available in 155 x 190 cm, 200 x 250 cm, a...

78301 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'10 x 11'06. ​Emulating sensual decadence with maximalist style and lavish texture, this antique Chinese Art Deco rug cultivates a desire for bo...

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 ...

The Older Antique Chinese Rugs, as opposed to most other productions of Chinese goods, were woven almost exclusively for internal consumption. Since ...

An early 20th century Chinese Peking rug Measures: 4'5'' x 6'8''.

Dragon Rug Wool and Silk in Imperial Style of Antique Chinese Kansu Carpet 5 claw dragons 8 x 5.4 ft A beautiful antique Imperial Dragon design rug, hand knotted using finest Chines...

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

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug in original condition. The rug is in bright orange color. Decorative floral design in different shades or yellow, green and purple. The condition is orig...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a red field, brown frame in a gorgeous all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 8'11" x 11'11".  

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

77937 Vintage Japanese Pictorial Kilim Rug Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai, 04'03 x 05'10. Japonisme meets Biophilia in this handwoven wool vintage Jap...

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...

The warm ecru field presents a widely dispersed, symmetric layout of butterflies and small floral sprays, with deep, triangular vine arabesque corners anchored by petal peonies. Ecr...

This 9x12 kilim rug from our European collection marks a modern take on 18th century Aubusson flatweave styles among our principal’s favorite curations. Handwoven in wool, the warm r...

76665 Vintage Tibetan Area Rug with Diamond Checkerboard Pattern, Harlequin Design Rug 08'10 x 11'10. This hand-knotted wool and silk vintage Tibe...

Chinese Art Deco Rug By Walter Nichols This exquisite Walter Nichols Chinese Art Deco rug is a stunning example of early 20th-cent...

Chinese Sinkiang Geometric Rug, Khotan Xinjiang Province (East Turkestan). A carpet of dyed wool pile on a cotton foundation, a mixed berry palette in hues of purple, salmon, red, an...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Silk Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

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

This exquisite hand-knotted Chinese runner rug features a wool pile on a durable cotton foundation. The rug's base color and border are both a timeless cream, which adds a touch of e...

Beautiful Nepalese Tibetan rug with simple design and orange color, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug 6' 0'' x8' 6''

Early 20th century colorful antique Khotan gallery rug. The field is a bone color, denim blue, rust accents are dominant. Measures: 5'8" x 12'11".

A Tibetan Tiger rug, hand knotted in Nepal, silk and wool pile. This traditional Tiger rug design is typically found on antique rugs called Khaden. It describes a small sized rug of...

Title: Timeless Elegance: A Handmade Art Deco Chinese Wool Carpet from the 1920s Introduction: Step into a world of exquisite craftsman...

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77585 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug, 02'04 x 04'07. This exceptional hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug captures the essence of classical Chinese symbolism and a...