Wool Chinese and East Asian Rugs

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco mini round rug. 3'6'' x 3'10''

Authentic 19th Century Samarkand Handmade Wool Rug Size: 9'2" × 11'4" (279 × 345 cm) The antique rugs of the oasis towns of East Turkestan are incomparable. These exotic oriental vin...

A Chinese Rug circa 1940. Hand knotted, made of 100% wool yarn.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

Modern Beige High-low Knotted Wool Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size : 12'2" × 12'1" (370 × 368 cm). Contemporary are among the most popular types of carpets and it is not difficult to s...

A Chinese Deco Rug circa 1930. Hand knotted, made of 100% wool yarn.

Vintage Samarkand handmade wool rug Size: 4'4" × 8'4" (134 × 256 cm) Made in Samarkand, the Uzbekistani city which in the past was located on the Silk Road, this antique samarkand ru...

A pillow made from a worn 19th century worn antique Chinese rug. 20'' x 20''

Rug Number 26410 Size 9' 10" X 14' 3" Design Aubusson Collection Flat Weaves Material Wool Texture Flat Weave Origin China Age New

High-quality Red Samarkand, Khotan Hand knotted wool rug. Size: 7'0" × 12'10" (213 × 391 cm) This vintage rug shows the incredible diversity and supreme craftsmanship of the weaving ...

Chinese dragons, the dragon is an important astrological symbol in the eastern zodiac and is considered the most powerful. This mystical creature celebrated in legends is the only my...

Contemporary grey terra rug in natural wool by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 8'0" × 14'0" (243 × 426 cm).

A Chinese Art Deco Rug circa 1930. Hand knotted. Made of 100% Wool yarn.

Beautiful Antique Turkish Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a light brown color field. This Khotan has multicolor accents in a gorgeous all-over medallion floral motif. This runner ...

:: Roundel center medallion of quatrefoil oriented lotus flowers atop a predominantly open field with two pairs of butterflies. Unusual size and proportions for type and age. Colors and shades include: Sky blue, pale saffron yellow, dusty rose, navy blue, cobalt blue, ivory, and more. Condition notes: Areas of pile, knot heads and foundation. Tatter to sides and ends. Recently professionally cleaned ready for in-home use! Many years of enjoyment to come with this hand knotted Chinese Peking rug runner...

Vintage Chinese Peking Runner Art Deco 2'5" x 10'7" 74cm x 323cm "This is a very unique vintage Art Deco peking rug. It has beautiful rare colorway. This piece has incredible design...

An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...

Full plush pile Chinese Batou rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century featuring the wall of China Measure: 4'7'' x 6'

1930s Chinese Art Deco Palace Size Rug Details rug no. j2845 size 11' 11" x 22' 9" (363 x 693 cm) Most found in Room size formats in...

An amazing early 20th century Chinese Art Deco runner with a beautiful pale champagne colored field surrounded by a wide grey border. Auspicious peonies dot the field with potted vases...

An authentic early-20th-century Chinese rug with a spacious open field floral design on a navy ground. Measures: 8'11'' x 11'6''.

Antique Chinese golden yellow handwoven wool rug Size: 13'6" × 21'0" (411 × 640 cm). A traditional Chinese Ningxia rug, the golden yellow field with lotus blossoms and leafy branches...

A Chinese Deco Rug circa 1930. Hand knotted. Made of 100% Wool yarn.

Antique Geometric Chinese Rug Size: 11'4" × 17'7" (345 × 535 cm) An antique Chinese carpet dating back to circa 1930. Its main field displays a grid of small, rhomboidal geometric sh...

Elevate your home decor with this exquisite Orange Vintage Traditional Wool Kohtan Rug - 5'4" x 10'9" handwoven rug, crafted from luxurious handspun wool. With a traditional design i...

One-of-a-kind Antique Chinese Beige, Brown Handmade Wool Runner Size: 5'6" × 17'5" (167 × 530 cm).

Hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation. Circa 1900 Dimensions: 9'3" x 11'7" Origin: China Condition: Excellent Field Color: Brown Border Color: Brown Accent Colors: Lig...

Hand-knotted wool circa 1925, a 9x12 antique Chinese art deco rug - latest to join Rug & Kilim’s antique collection. On the Design: This is a rare work from the Nichols style curat...

Scatter size Chinese Peking rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century with an animal pictorial motif Measures: 1'11" x 3'7".

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

Contemporary Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet ( 7'10" x 10'5" - 238 x 317 )

Elevate your home decor with this exquisite Vintage Kohtan Rug - 5'7" x 8'8" handwoven rug, crafted from luxurious handspun wool. With a traditional design inspired by the field patt...

Rug Number 25998 Size 4' 5" X 6' 2" Design Peking Collection Antique/Vintage Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin China Age Antique/Vintage

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'5" - 280 x 350 cm )

8' x 10' Multicolor Chinese Kilim Rug. Very good condition.

Beautiful Asian textile with foo dogs in 100% wool. This would be great in any room decor. Wonderful details and colors.

1920 Antique Tribal Kelim Flatwoven KilimGeometric 10x16 10'2" x 15'6" 310cm x 472cm "Very cool antique tribal Kilim with a rare geometric overall pattern and fantastic, color pale...

Rare Vintage Art Deco Rug Silk Chinese Rug Art Nouveau Handmade Rug Pink 8x11 244cm x 336cm "Magnificent silk vintage Chinese Art Deco-magnificent jewel tones paired with an in...

Vintage Chinese Art Deco brown handmade wool rug Size: 9'0" × 17'2" (274 × 523 cm) A modernist second quarter of the 20th century Chinese rug, the open oatmeal field with a border of...

Antique Peking Chinese rug, measures 8' X 10'. Weaving in Peking began around 1900 during the revival of Chinese carpet manufacturing when the other weaving areas such as Ningxia mov...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with mint green field with a basket filled with multi-colored peonies in the center.

A Chinese Art Deco Rug circa 1930. Hand knotted. Made of 100% Wool yarn.

This antique Khotan rug has a shaded raspberry-red field with scattered angular floral stems and flowerheads around a pair of roundels with a central apricot lozenge and a golden-yel...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant fuchsia field surrounded by thin orange, wide indigo, and thin fuchsia borders, and all overlaid with multi-color...

Handwoven in wool, this 6x9 kilim is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th-century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: This rug enjoys...

Handwoven in wool, this 3x10 Kilim runner is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: Inspire...

Handwoven in wool, this 6x9 kilim is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th-century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: This rug enjoys...

Handwoven in wool, this 9x12 kilim is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th-century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: This rug enjoy...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 8'8" - 188 x 264 )

Step into a world of rare elegance with our exquisite Art Deco Rug, a true marvel from the 1920s that carries the allure of a bygone era. Crafted with precision in China, this rug is...

This rug deisgn is based on antique Persian rug designs, but using a contemporary color palette. The main characteristic of this rug is the noticeable abrash (color change), a new te...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with myriad auspicious imagery including five bats, a phoenix, fish, a scholar's vase, and various flowers, all symbols of prosper...

An incredible early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a rich crimson field surrounded by a thin gold inner border and a wide dark indigo border. Overlaid across the entire field...

This rug deisgn is based on antique Persian rug designs, but using a contemporary color palette. The main characteristic of this rug is the noticeable abrash (color change), a new te...

This rug deisgn is based on antique Persian rug designs, but using a contemporary color palette. The main characteristic of this rug is the noticeable abrash (color change), a new te...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 2' x 3' - 60 x 90 )

This rug deisgn is based on antique Persian rug designs, but using a contemporary color palette. The main characteristic of this rug is the noticeable abrash (color change), a new te...

This rug deisgn is based on antique Persian rug designs, but using a contemporary color palette. The main characteristic of this rug is the noticeable abrash (color change), a new te...