Hand-Knotted Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Antique handmade geometric Nichol Chinese rug. Very unusual design for that age but very modern and fashionable today. There are not so many of ge...

This antique art deco Chinese wool rug showcases a tan field with a decorative purple frame and multi-colored accents in an all-over Chinese classic motif. This rug measures 4'1" x ...

This antique, circa 1920, Chinese rug has a shaded buff-brown field with a delicate scrolling indigo and light blue leafy vine issuing dusty-pink flowerheads, in a broad dusty-pink b...

Fine & Rare TAO IMMORTALS Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue color field and peach accents in a gorgeous traditional design. This rug measures 2'8" x 4'1".

Antique Chinese Peking Rug 8' 4" x 9' 10"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 10'' x 11' 7'' - 270 x 353 cm )

This Turkish room-size wool rug features a beautiful tiger pictorial design with a pink field and black and blue accent colors. It is handmade with care. This rug measures 8' x 10'8...

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a brown field. This Chinese rug has a burgundy and green frame multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral...

Rare Antique Peking Ninghshia Art Deco Rug Chinese Tapestry Beige 9'4' x 10' 10' x 10' 285cm x 305cm Circa 1860 "This is a rare Antique Chinese Peking Ningxia Ningshia rug...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 3'2'' X 4' - 96 X 146 )

late 19th century east turkestan Khotan rug with cantaloupe colored ground. 4'1'' x 5'4''

The purple-mauve field is open at the center and is delimited on the border-less ground by a corner squared floral wreath strongly accented with colorful lotus leaves and flowers, sh...

Vintage Chinese Dragon Carpet on Black Background ( 5' x 8' - 152 x 243 cm)

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 6" - 275 x 350 cm)

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...

77211 Vintage Chinese Peking Indian Rug, 05'11 x 08'11. This hand-knotted wool vintage Chinese Peking Indian Chinoiserie rug is a masterful representation of East Asian artistry with...

74478, antique Chinese Peking Accent rug with Chinese Art Deco style. This antique Peking rug showcases a beautiful Chinese Art Deco style. It has a circular shaped central medallion...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'8'' - 183 x 265 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco rug from the mid-20th century.

Carpets such as this one were woven in China during the Art Deco period in order to satisfy the demand in the West for decorative rugs designed in the Art Deco taste. Here the Art De...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 13'2" - 305 x 400 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, Size: 11' 8'' x11' 11''

Antique Chinese - Art Deco Rug, Size: 6'0" x 8'8"

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 8' 0'' x 10' 9''.

Ashly Fine Rugs presents a 1980s Vintage Sino-Persian Tabriz Mahi 9x12 Handmade Rug. Tabriz is a northern city in modern-day Iran and has forever been famous for the fineness and cr...

Hand-knotted wool & silk pile on a cotton foundation. Dimensions: 7'10" x 11'1" Origin: Tibet Condition: Excellent Field Color: Olive-Brown Border Color: Olive-Brown Accen...

78303 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'02 x 09'05. This magnificent hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug transports viewers to a bygone era of exquisite artistry and vibran...

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...

A beautiful hand knotted antique Chinese Peking wool rug with a peach field and multi-color accents in all-over Chinese botanical design. This rug measures 9' x 11'9".

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with pink color background, size: 8'9" x 11'6".

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

Beautiful antique Chinese Art deco hand-knotted wool rug with a bright red field, This Deco rug has a green frame and multi-color accents in an all-over Classic traditional Chinese f...

1930s Large Vintage Chinese Deco Rug with Bamboo Motif in Soft Beige and Green Size: 17'10" × 20'10" (543 × 635 cm) This large vintage Chinese...

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug, size: 10'0" x 13'6".

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop ( 8'8" x 11'4" - 265 x 345 )

A beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a red field. This rug has a frame of brown and multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. T...

Antique Art Deco Chinese rug, measures: 8'10" x 11'8".

Delicate flowers and Eastern motifs are scattered throughout Mountain Blossom's vibrant composition. This colorful Asian-inspired rug is cheerful and sophisticated for many interior ...

1920's Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" ) Paeonies everywhere, in the four corners overlapping pink field and celadon green border, in the larger central bouquet. Only one cloisonné vase in a corner. The pink is balanced top and bottom, but a larger plain area is on the left. One lotus blossom appears in the lower left flower bunch. An attractive almost antique...

This beautifully handwoven Aubusson rug is sure to make a great accent piece in any room it’s introduced too. An ivory blue color makes up the background of this elegant area rug. Th...

1920s Chinese Peking Carpet With 100 Antiques Pattern ( 10' 8" x 14' 4" - 325 x 437 cm )

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...

Vintage Chinese Art Deco Rug Size: 8'9" × 11'5" (266 × 347 cm) This captivating vintage Chinese Art Deco rug from the 1950s is a striking example of the fusion between Eastern decora...

Beautiful mid century Chinese beijing Art Deco design rug with beautiful design and nice colors, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotto...

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 ...

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....

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 7' x 11'8" - 213 x 356 )

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

Inspired by ancient Tibetan designs, this smaller runner rug is part of Joseph Carini's collection of 3x6s carpets. Remarkable for its beautiful indigo blue field and expressive colo...

A delicate, thin red line border develops fret work corners supporting two diagonally opposed paeony and bamboo corners on the otherwise undecorated rose-pink open ground. Pink, satu...

Beautiful Chinese rug from Beijing, with beautiful Chinese design and nice colors with blue, yellow, orange and purple, entirely and finely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton fo...

Modern Tibetan “Tiger” Wool Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 2'0" × 3'0" (60 × 91 cm) Color: Black, Brown A masterclass in modern minimalism inspired by the wild, this Modern Tiger Rug...

1920s Black Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 13' 6" - 304 x 412 cm )

Hand knotted in wool, a 10x14 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts an eccentric open field from ...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with pink color. Measures: 8'9" x 11'8".

Nice late 19th century Chinese rug with beautiful Chinese and Art Deco design and beautiful natural colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experie...

The rare carpets of Mongolia have in recent years achieved a stature of their own. They differ from traditional 19th century Chinese carpets in that they typically employ stylized pa...

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1920-1930, this 9x11 antique 9x11 Indochinese Art Deco rug is a rare and exciting curation from the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design: This is an ex...

77137, vintage Chinese rug with modern style. This hand-knotted wool vintage Chinese rug with modern style features an all-over geometric pattern surrounded by a double Greek Key Mea...