Wool Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a tan color field. This Chinese rug has a gorgeously pictorial design with a navy blue frame and multicolor accents. This rug...

A chic and sophisticated early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a black background with the most incredible large central peon...

Geometric Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Country of Origin / rug type: China, Circa date: 1920. Size: 3 ft x 6 ft (0.91 m x 1.83 m)  

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

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a green field. This piece has a red frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. This rug...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 11' 2" - 304 x 340 cm )

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a brown color field. This piece has a navy-blue frame with multicolor accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. ...

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue color field. This piece has a purple frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design....

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' X 13' 9" - 355 X 420 )

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

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

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant fuchsia field surrounded by a border with large-scale chrystanthemum flowers amidst a tightly woven scrolling vin...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4' x 6' 8'' -122 x 203 cm )

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

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a cranberry field surrounded by a pale mint green border, and with each corner including indigo, gray, and pink peonies.

78200 Antique Chinese Peking runner, 02'07 x 14'04. Perfect for a hallway, long entry, grand foyer, designer entryway, galley kitchen, corridor, long stair landing, grand parlor, home office, private library, conservatory, wine cellar, executive suite, theater room, billiards room, game room, bedroom, study, studio, sitting room, sunroom or it would make a lovely accent next to a buffet in a dining room, behind the sofa table in the living room, or by a long vestibule in a hotel lobby. Well-suited for a wide range of interior styles: Rustic, Artisan, Art Deco, Asian Modern...

Ask me regarding the best way of shipping it to you. Welcome to the captivating allure of the art deco Chinese rug from the 1920's, where the past intertwines with the present, and w...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 7' 9'' x 9' 8'' - 235 x 295 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'9" x 14' 9'' - 360 x 450 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' 9'' x 13' 8'' - 295 x 415 cm )

78185 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 10'02 x 11'07. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese pictorial rug features a colorblock field design. With its cold, arid climate ideal for rais...

Rare antique Art Deco rug antique Chinese rug square rare horse design 10' x 10'3" 305cm x 313cm "This is an incredible, rare, vintage Art Deco r...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10'2" x 13'9" - 310 x 420 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 4'2" x 7' - 127 x 213 )

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Peking rug with a simple pattern containing a central floral medallion on a dark indigo background surrounded by a wide light indigo border and...

Woven during the Art Deco period, rugs of this type were commissioned by the nobility and the high ranking officers inhabiting the Tarim Basin in eastern Turkestan, which is the hear...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2' 2" x 3' 10" - 66 x 116 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet with Modernist Design (2'10'' x 5'9'' - 86 x 175)

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'9" x 13'3" - 297 x 404 )

78184 Antique Pink Chinese Art Deco Rug, 05'02 x 07'11. Antique Chinese Art Deco rugs emerged as a distinct style during the 1920s and 1930s in China, seamlessly marrying traditional...

A 9 Dragon Chinese rug in red field. Measures: 8 x 10 ft. This traditional dragon rug design is typically found on antique rugs from Beijing / Peking and Ningxia. On this rug it sho...

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a burgundy field. This piece has multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 7'1...

A remarkable early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a brilliant chartreuse green field surrounded by a wide gold and lavender stylized cloud motif border. Two large peacocks live in one corner, and rest on a scholar's rock amidst auspicious peonies, prunus, and bamboo in a pond. A crescent moon and clouds...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'2" x14'6" - 340 x 442 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 7''- 269 x 353 cm ) With European Design Influences Reminiscence of Ivan de Silva Bruhns Works

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Gallery Carpet ( 6' x 11' 8" - 183 x 355 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 15 - 305 x 458 cm )

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 16' - 305 x 490 cm )

Antique handmade Chinese area rug made from fine wool and all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for people and pets. This beautiful piece features a rich field of floral details in bright colors that was so popular in the 1920s when the Art Deco movement flourished and permeated every facet of American lifestyle including home decor and interior design. This area rug has oversize dimensions of 12'2" x 22'8" that works well in large open spaces. It has the classic Art Deco design which matches perfectly with modern and contemporary interiors. Fun facts about rug names: Chinese Art Deco rugs were made popular by Walter Nichols who introduced a mechanical style of wool production that resulted in strands that were thicker compared to what traditional rug makers were using. He established a workshop in Northern China and began making rugs inspired by the Art Deco movement boom that flourished from the 1920s-1930s. Today, authentic Nichols Art Deco rugs...

78175 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial rug with Gazebo & Pagoda Scene 09'01 x 11'02. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco ...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco round rug with a dark indigo field surrounded by a thin taupe stripe and wide burgundy stripe border, overlaid with multi-colored peon...

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a burgundy field. This piece has a red frame with multi-color accents in a gorgeous traditional Chinese floral design. This ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'3'' x 9'7'' - 252 x 292 )

Spectacular palace size Art Deco rug, circa 1920/1930's. The rug features a tan, or mustard, center field bordered in blue , then mustard again, it has a restrained floral motif thr...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 13'8" x 24' - 417 x 732 cm )

A wonderful Chinese Art Deco runner with a gray field with five multi-colored cherry blossom medallions surrounded by an indigo border with mor...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 4' 10'' x 8' 6'' - 147 x 259 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'7" - 280 x 353 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5' x 7'10" - 143 x 238 cm )

1920s Chinese Oval Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2'' x 7'9'' - 188 x 236 )

Beautiful antique Art Deco hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Chinese rug has a tan frame in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 9'1" x 11'5"...

An antique Chinese Ningxia square throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 3" x 2' 4" 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...

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

77615 distressed antique Chinese Art Deco oval rug 03'00 x 04'09. This hand-knotted wool distressed antique Chinese Art Deco style rug features a bea...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 4' x 6'8" - 122 x 204 )