Hand-Knotted Chinese and East Asian Rugs

A vintage Chinese pictorial Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 1"

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 10' - 244 x 305 )

This is a mid-20th century hand knotted Khotan rug with a beige color and medallion floral design. The rug measures 5'3" x 10'7".  

77196 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 08'10 x 11'06. Maximalist style meets Qing Dynasty in this hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug. The intricate botanical details and blu...

76665 Vintage Tibetan Area Rug with Diamond Checkerboard Pattern, Harlequin Design Rug 08'10 x 11'10. This hand-knotted wool and silk vintage Tibe...

77435 antique Antique Chinese Palace rug with Persian Tabriz style. With timeless appeal, refined colors, and architectural design elements, this ha...

Antique Chinese rug, size: 9'0" x 11'8".

A simple but chic early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a gray central field surrounded by a darker gray border. A central potted lotus is flanked by a potted chrysanthemum i...

Chinese - Ningxia, Size: 12' 9"x 13'0"

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Dragon Carpet ( 5' x 7'8" - 152 x 233 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 2''x 14' 2'' - 340 x 432 cm )

Early 20th Century N. Chinese Mongolian Carpet ( 16'10'' x 17'10'' - 513 x 544 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 2'4" x 11'0".

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

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size?: 9'0" x 11'10" Navy background.

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Dragon Carpet ( 3'10''x 6'2'' - 117 x 188 )

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Rug ( 3' x 3'2" - 92 x 97 )

An antique Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 8' 5".

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...

19th Century Chinese Mongolian Dragon Carpet ( 9'8" x 12' - 295 x 365 )

This elegant 19th century Chinese Peking runner is a rare and refined hand knotted rug that embodies the subtle beauty of traditional Chinese design. Woven in soft tones of ivory, navy, and baby blue, the rug features a column of symbolic motifs representing happiness, prosperity, and good fortune, gracefully set against a tranquil ivory field. Two slim borders in baby blue and deep navy frame the design with understated contrast, enhancing the vertical flow and balance. The serene color palette and minimalist layout evoke the meditative quality of Japanese rock gardens, making this piece not only decorative but also spiritually calming. Narrow in width and long in form, this runner is versatile in use—perfect as a hallway or entryway rug, a table runner, or even a wall-hung tapestry to showcase its artistry and cultural symbolism. Dimensions: 1' 9" x 9' 10" Date of Manufacture: Last Quarter of the 1800s Place of Origin: China Material: Wool pile on a cotton foundation Condition: Wear consistent with age and use The Persian Knot Gallery, SKU 1691 Chinese Happiness Symbols Rug, Narrow Hallway Runner, Antique Chinese Peking Runners, Chinese Peking Rugs, Antique Peking Carpets, Antique Chinese Peking Carpets, Antique Peking Rug, Antique Peking Carpet, Chinese Rug Dragon...

A rare and unusual Chinese rug decorated with an all-over pattern of eight-petalled rosettes, joined together to form a lattice in the negative of which is the longevity motif, that ...

This antique, circa 1900, Khotan runner has a field with soft-terracotta stepped and linked lozenges each with delicate floral motifs around a central fox-red and lilac stepped lozen...

19th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Thread Meditation Carpet (4' x 7' – 122 x 213 cm) Silk pile of Asymmetric Knots with Gold Metal Thread Brocading...

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Carpet 3' 2" x 5' 2"

19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2'' x 11'8' - 280 x 355 )

A 6x7 antique rug in needlepoint style, handmade in wool originating from China circa 1920-1930. Outstanding in its rare pictorial style, complemented by forgiving beige-brown, green...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet Navy background with blue border. ( 10' x 14'6'' - 305 x 442 )

Handmade with wool, this 9×13 needlepoint rug is a new unveiling from the earliest works in Rug & Kilim’s European Collection. On the Design: Admirers of the craft may note inspi...

Antique Handmade Art Deco Chinese carpet, c-1920's,3' x 4'10". Woven with natural dyed soft wool pile, in green and rust/brown background color and traditional floral design, this ca...

Probably Fette, with peonies and oak leafy style bushes growing from fretwork sections at each end of the dark blue field.  

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 17'6" - 305 x 533 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug ( 4' x 6'6'' - 122 x 198 )

Two vases on stands with peony branches and two fragrance emitting censers, along with two bats, decorate the pale pink open field of this 1930’s Art Deco...

Antique rare Tibetan carpet with pink flowers. From an Italian personal collection: first time on the market. (Look to other ones). No restoration: wo...

Mid-18th W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet Main Hall Carpet 11’9” x 12’ Mid 18th Century Structural Analysis: Warp:cotton,off-white,natural,Z-4-S,somewhat irregular; Weft:cotton,off-white,Z-4-S,winder plied, quite irregular;2 shots alternating; wefts thick and soft; Pile:wool,Z-4; Knot: PL/0 degrees warp depression/horiz. 6 x vertical 5 = 30 knots per square inch; knots somewhat irregular, some quite thin; [check for T knots along edges] Sides: two cords each of two body warps, inner directly weft-attached; figure eight sparsely weft yarn wrapped; Weft/knot ratio: 60/40 wefts predominant. Remarks: This is another variant on the popular Mandarin nine lion dog carpet...

Early 20th Century Round Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10'6" R - 320 R )

Chinese - Art Deco Rug, Size: 8' 9" x11' 2"

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 3'8" x 9'6" - 112 x 290 )

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...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 4'0" x 6'8".

Hand-knotted in wool, this 9x12 European rug in beige is the first iteration of this design to be in high-and-low texture. Featuring green and pink floral patterns with red and cream...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 9' x 11' 8"

Antique Chinese, Ningxia rug, size: 10'4" x 15'6".

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 9'0" x 11'3".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'8'' - 275 x 355 )

An outstanding late 19th century Chinese Peking rug woven in natural un-dyed wool with a large round chrystantmum medallion amidst a field of more chrysanthemums and peonies, all wov...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 10" x 11' 8".

Introducing our splendid of Imperial garden Chinese art deco rug, where artistry intertwines with symbolism. The enchanting jade multi color field hosts a majestic garden of Life...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'9" x 13'8" - 297 x 417 cm )

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 3'0" x 5'6"

Antique Chinese - Peking rugs, Size: 11' 9" x 14' 8".

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

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 10' x 11'10" - 305 x 360 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 4'' x 15' 4'' - 345 x 467 cm )

This antique Khotan runner has a soft terracotta field with a shaded mole-brown vase at each end issuing sandy-yellow flowerheads, three large barrel-vases issuing flowering stems an...

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 5'9" x 9'2" - 175 x 280 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 10' x 15'5"

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 13'6" x 16'6" - 412 x 503 )

Breathtakingly beautiful, this vintage Chinese Art Deco rug is a striking example of early 20th-century design and craftsmanship. Hand-knotted with care, it features a lush green fie...