Wool Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Hand knotted in wool, a 6x9 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: This rug recaptures the Chinese Art Deco rug styl...

:: Open field with diagonally opposing sprawling ornate foliage and long stemmed vines reciprocating each other. Super soft and blanket-like feel with plush pile. Colors and shades i...

The history of Antique Peking Chinese carpets adorned with five dragons is a captivating journey that intertwines the realms of art, culture, and tradition. Originating in the imper...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'8" - 275 x 355 )

A fantastic early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant orange sherbet field surrounded by a thin violet liner strip and a wide indigo outer stripe, and all overlaid wit...

A border-less soft gold ground of this Tianjin 1930s carpet has a blue fretwork in the upper right corner and a facing four claw dragon in the lower left. This almost Minimalist comp...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a central peony and chrysanthemum medallion woven in cream, ivory, and dark indigo set against a lighter indigo field of more...

Pioneered by Walter Nichols, an American in China whose workshops were active from 1924 into the 1930s, Chinese Art Deco carpets represent a real high point in the history of 20th Ce...

A gorgeous early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a mint green field surrounded by a wide burnt orange border, and all overlaid with multicolored prunus blossoms and peonies.

Contemporary Art Deco style handmade wool rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 12'0" × 15'2" (365 × 462 cm) Fern-like plants twine gracefully all-over this cut-pile Tibetan rug, gathering...

Art Deco Chinese Lantern Rug from the 1920's. Deep wine hand knotted ground with Deco Chinese motifs in each corner. Lush hand feels like wool/silk blend. 1920's China. Measures 56" ...

Midcentury Chinese brown handmade wool rug Size: 10'10" × 15'3" (330 × 464 cm). Chinese Deco rugs originated in the first half of the 20th century to ca...

The Art Deco period was an international design movement from 1920s-1940s. Art Deco rugs are characterized by experimentation with bold colors, angular lines, and the omission of he...

:: Pictorial design motif of an elaborate plant sprawling across both the main field and outer border. Colorful, intricate, and certainly unique for the type. Colors and shades include: Aubergine, violet, mauve, oxidized silver, celadon green, gold, saffron yellow, copper, chocolate brown, and more. Condition notes: Mostly even pile height across. Most of the original side cord selvages are intact or restored. Mostly secure sides and ends. Old remnants of machine bound ends. Most of the original side cord selvages intact. Recently professionally cleaned ready for in-home use! Many years of enjoyment to come with this hand knotted Chinese Art Deco rug runner...

53874 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 07'06 x 10'08. Chinese Art Deco rugs originated in China during the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the bold geometric patterns, vibrant colors, and l...

Voguish Art Deco Chinese rug, constructed of hand knotted wool, having an all over floral motif, on a pale green ground. It is unusual to find this type of decoration, as most Chine...

Vintage Chinese Art Deco red and green handmade wool rug Size: 3'0" × 4'1" (91 × 124 cm). The open brown field of this Chinese oriental rug is framed by a broad dark red border with ...

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with nice simple and floral design with a beautiful orange field colour, entirely hand knotted with wool on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the ...

78725 Antique Purple Chinese Art Deco Rug, 04'11 x 07'09. Chinese Art Deco rugs, originating in the early 20th century, marry traditional C...

Fine Quality Antique Chinese Art Deco Wool Rug or Carpet 5'10" x 8'4"

Antique Chinese Peking Blue Rug or Carpet - Signed 5'10" x 8'4"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet Made by Nichols Workshop (7'10" x 9'6"-240 x 290 )

Step into a realm of timeless elegance with our exquisite Art Deco Rug, a genuine marvel from the 1920s that exudes the charm of a bygone era. Meticulously crafted in China, this rug...

From the elegance and unusual style you can recognize this beautiful Chinese carpet from the Art Deco period. The wool is bright and silky, spun with greater thickness than normal Ch...

A fantastic early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a mint green field surrounded by a tan undulating border overlaid with brown, gold, peach and fuchsia peonies.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'3" x 11'8" - 282 x 356 )

Antique Peking Art Deco Rug Chinese Rug 8x8ft Round 8' x 8' 244cm x 244cm "THIS RUG IS EXQUISITE!!! It is a rare oversize Antique Chinese...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

A stunning early 20th century Chinese Art Deco runner with an indigo and pink swirling phoenix in the center of a tone-on-tone floral field dotted with bats and double-coins, all sym...

Beautiful 1920s antique Chinese Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with terracotta color field. This piece has a designed frame in black hues adorned with a classic Chinese floral scroll...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'8" - 183 x 264 )

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco hand-knotted scatter wool rug with brown and gray color field. This piece has multicolor hues adorned with a classic Chinese floral design. This ...

Only a very limited group of the carpets woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms are decorated by geometric patterns typical of the Art Deco period. Some of these rare pi...

Contemporary Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet ( 8' x 9'10" - 245 x 300 )

Contemporary Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet ( 8'9" x 12' - 265 x 365 )

A bold early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant gold field with a large multi-colored peony cluster in one corner.

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco hand-knotted scatter wool rug with navy blue color field. This piece has multicolor hues adorned with a classic Chinese floral design. This rug m...