Fabric Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Handmade vintage rug from China made in beige wool. The rug is from the end of 20th century in original good condition. - Condition: Original good, - circa 1970s, - Size: 2....

Nice Sinkiang rug late 20th century with beautiful geometrical design and light colors with beige, blue, pink, green, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundations. ✨...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 11'' x 11' 7" - 272 x 353 cm )

A unique Art Deco carpet distinguished by a sparse and subtle floral tone-on-tone pattern in shades of garnet and amaranth. Rugs of this type were commissioned by Nichols & Co. in Ti...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' X 8'6" - 183 x 260 cm )

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Kansu Carpet ( 11'6" x 12' - 350 x 365 )

76703, vintage Persian style rug with traditional style. Opulent and whimsical, this hand knotted wool vintage Persian style rug with traditi...

1920s Chinese Art Debackground measuring 9' x 11'9" Green background with yellow border.

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 9'0" x 11'6".

Mid-18th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 13'6" x 13'10" - 411 x 422 )

1930s Square Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'8" x 12' - 355 x 365 cm )

Chinese Deco Rug Doris Leslie Blau Size: 12'0" × 13'5" (365 × 408 cm) Circa: 1940 Age: Vintage Origin: China Style: Art Deco This exquisite rug is part of the diversified Doris Lesli...

1920s Round Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 3' - 92 x 92 cm )

An antique Chinese Peking long gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century in shades of cream and blue. Measures: 5' 9" x 16' 3" 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...

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Carpet with Phoenix 5'6" x 9' - 168 x 274

A charming Chinese Art Deco rug with a gray field surrounded by a violet border. The field depicts a flowering cherry tree perched above a scholars rock at the edge of a garden. The ...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x9 rare antique Chinese Peking rug, circa 1850-1860, is one of the provenance’s most special pictorial rugs in the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design...

Antique Chinese - Peking rug, size: 9'0" x 11'6".

Tsukdruk rugs are possibly the most representative examples of the Tibetan nomadic weaving tradition. Woven with lanolin-rich highland wool, these come in narrow strips constructed o...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'6" x 13'2" - 290 x 402 )

Discover the exquisite charm of this mid-20th century Chinese Khotan rug, featuring a captivating geometrical design in vibrant yellow, green, and red hues. Entirely hand-knotted wit...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 cm ) with a fuchsia color background

Beautiful antique Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a brown color field. This Khotan rug has pink, orange, and dark brown accents in a gorgeous geometric multi-medallion pattern. T...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Oval Carpet ( 4' x 6'10" - 122 x 208 )

30575, new contemporary Chinese Art Deco style rug inspired by Walter Nichols. Channeling the famed Walter Nichols style of the 1920s and 1930s, this hand knotted wool new contemporary Chinese Art Deco rug...

The only huge carpet known to have left the Imperial Palace in Beijing's Forbidden City, formerly in the Perenchio collection, is the famous Tiffany carpet, 9.99 metres long and once 9.68 metres wide, but since reduced to 7.20 metres wide. The carpet was originally made in three parts to fit around the columns of an unknown hall, and was reportedly last used in China in the private temple of the Empress Dowager Cixi. It was purchased for Louis Comfort Tiffany of New York, who owned it for more than thirty years. The Tiffany carpet is currently attributed to the end of the Ming dynasty and is thought to have been made in the first part of the 17th century. The field pattern is composed of a repeating design of rows of lotus flowers on a soft beige ground, originally deep red, overlaid in the centre with a medallion formed by a blue line edged in ivory and pinched in the four corners. The field is enclosed by two borders on the same colour, which reappears beyond the borders to create a wide band around the outer edge. The inner border is composed of a lattice of stepped squares filled with a swastika, with a large rosette at each intersection. The outer border is a double version of the swastika fret. A section of the field is shown here, and a few other fragments survive. The Tiffany carpet clearly forms a link between the carpets made during the late 16th century and those made in the late 17th century. Examples with an identical flower design or the same specific ‘heavy’ weave are now referred to as the ‘Tiffany’ type after this most important carpet. Other carpets of this type include one in the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City and one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The Tiffany type...

Handwoven in wool, this 7x9 flatweave rug “Acanthus” from China features floral patterns that are often seen in botanical illustrations throughout Aubusson, Tudor, Bessarabian and ot...

Made in hand knotted wool from the custom Classic Burano Collection by Rug & Kilim, this 2 × 3 this 2 × 3 rug is available as a gift-sized rug for both flooring and wall-hanging proj...

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in turquoise color. The rug decorated in Art Deco floral design. It is in original good condition. ?-condition: original good, -circa 1920...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark indigo border surrounded a gray oval medallion overlaid with multi-colored peonies, lotus, chrysanthemum, and sherry b...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 4' x 6'8'' - 122 x 203 )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 10'2" - 245 x 310 )

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...

This 20th century Khotan rug is an antique piece featuring a red field and center medallion adorned with multicolor accents. This rug measures 2'11" x 6'1".

1930s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 3' x 11' - 90 x 335 )

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 8'1'' x 9'5'' - 246 x 287 )

74841, distressed antique Khotan Gallery rug with Pomegranate design. With its striking appeal and architectural elements of naturalistic forms, ...

77557 antique Chinese Art Deco rug with Pictorial design. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco pictorial rug features a variety of traditional Chinese motifs spread across...

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 ...

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with goldenrod and green field. This Chinese rug has a red frame and multi-color accent in a gorgeous all-over traditional Chinese fl...

Antique Chinese Peking School Blue & White Oriental Wool Carpet C1930 Measures - 147.5"L x 103.5"W x 1"D

77407, distressed antique Chinese Peking rug with Traditional chinoiserie style 08'10 x 11'06. This hand knotted wool distressed antique Chinese Peking area rug...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a bright gold field surrounded by a wide orange border, both overlaid with multicolored lotus and peonies, and butterflies.

Hand knotted on a luscious 9 x 12 scale from China circa 1950-1960, this vintage Art Deco rug hails from Rug & Kilim’s coveted Antique & Vintage Collection. R...

This vintage Tibetan rug, dating to the early 1900s, showcases a striking combination of symbolic design and vibrant color. At its heart, three large-scale lotus flowers emerge from ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'9" - 279 x 358 )

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark golden orange field with a central pagoda medallion, garden pavilion...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'3" x 17'2" - 343 x 523 )

A very rare small format, very finely knotted antique rug from the oasis of Kashgar, located in eastern Turkestan. Distinguished by a unique soft red background and by an all-over pattern consisting of a trellis containing a directional floral blossom motif characteristic of the Indian Mughal Dynasty...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 3' x 4'8'' - 92 x 142 )

A stunning Tibetan rug in checkerboard design. This traditional checkerboard 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, Dragons or Tiger stripes. Many of them were made in a town called Kampa Dzong in Tibet. Our collection of Tibetan rugs offers new, vintage and antique Tibetan rugs. The displayed rug is made of 50% Tibetan hand spun wool and 50% fine Chinese mulberry silk. Total pile height about 1/2-inch, Knot density 60 Tibetan knots per square inch. This rug has a fantastic feel, very soft and smooth. We can reproduce this design in sizes up to 45 x 16 ft on order. Other color combinations are possible. Goes great with Art Deco or Hollywood Regency interior design, but will be an eye catcher in any room, no matter if it is a living room, dining room or bedroom. Interior designers welcome. Very fine wool and silk quality. Current production of the Djoharian Design...

Antique Handmade Art Deco/Peking Chinese Circular Rug, 7'8" , c-1900, woven pile rug with fine natural dyed wool, in light blue background color and traditionally floral design, this rug is in good condition, reduced in size. This wonderful Art Deco Peking circular carpet...

77435 antique Antique Chinese Palace rug with Persian Tabriz style. With timeless appeal, refined colors, and architectural design elements, this ha...

Chinese - Ningxia, Size: 12' 9"x 13'0"

This is a mid-20th century hand knotted Khotan rug with a tan color and medallion geometric design. The rug measures 3'8" x 8'3".