Oversized Modern Smoky Amethyst Handmade Mohair Rug

Modern Hummingbird silver handmade wool and silk rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 14'10" × 25'0" (452 × 762 cm) A Fine extra-large hand knotted wool and silk rug with modern all-over o...

Modern striped 'Car Wash' handmade silk rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 12'0" × 14'11" (365 × 454 cm). Contemporary rugs can be found in all shapes and sizes. Their fascinating forms...

Modern Surface Subtly floral brown, beige handmade silk rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 9'0" × 12'0" (274 × 365 cm). The great diversity of contemporary rugs, makes them one of the mo...

Contemporary gold waves design handmade wool and silk rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 9'0" × 14'8" (274 × 447 cm). ​The Gold Waves Design Rug from Doris Leslie Blau is a modern maste...

An oversize Chinese Peking rug in tans and blue. Peking rugs consist of designs that are simpler and asymmetrical, often tending toward modern western art...

A vintage Tibetan throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 5' 8" Chinese Rugs & Carpet: 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...

Rare Oversize Antique Peking Chinese Art Deco Rug Blue 12'10" x 17'6" 391cm x 534cm "THIS RUG IS EXQUISITE!!! It is a rare oversize Antique Chinese ...

This fantastic wool rug features a fantastic diamond medallion design through the centre woven in cream beige and black accents which have been woven on a rich red background with el...