Hand-Knotted Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Handwoven in wool, this 6x9 kilim is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th-century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: This rug enjoys...

Authentic 19th Century Antique Samarkand Khotan Rug Size: 6'6" × 11'6" (198 × 350 cm) This resplendent antique Samarkand rug, woven in the storied oasis town of Khotan on the Silk Ro...

Arthur Dunnam abstract design handmade rug for Doris Leslie Blau Size: 4'0" × 9'0" (121 × 274 cm) Elegance offered by contemporary rugs cannot be found anywhere else. Inspired by the...

Modern Tibetan European-Inspired Wool & Silk Rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 5.0" × 7.8" (152 × 233 cm). A captivating fusion of classic European aesthetics and contemporary Tibetan ...

Modern Tibetan Art Deco Silk Rug - Radiant Ombre Composition by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 6'0" × 9'10" (182 × 299 cm). Bold yet serene, this striking modern Tibetan rug showcases the f...

Luxurious Hand-Knotted Silk & Wool Runner – Art Deco Elegance by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 5'0" × 19'5" (152 × 591 cm). An exquisite statement in contemporary design with Art Deco roo...

Modern Traditional-Inspired Hand-Knotted Silk Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 8'0" × 10'2" (243 × 309 cm) Blending classical elegance with modern refinement, this exquisite hand-knott...

Modern Hand-Knotted Silk Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 9'0" × 12'1" (274 × 368 cm) A striking interpretation of traditional textile patterns, this modern hand-knotted silk rug (N128...

Modern Silk & Wool Rug with Geometric Design by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 8'10" × 12'0" (269 × 365 cm) A striking example of contemporary craftsmanship, this modern Tibetan rug effortl...

Late 19th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'3" x 11'10" - 282 x 360 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug, size: 9'3" x 11'6".

Antique Chinese Peking Rug 11' 5''x14' 3'' Ivory background

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 5" x 11' 8".

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...

Graceful and timeless, this vintage Chinese Art Deco rug from the early 1900s showcases a serene tan wool field beautifully framed by a soft baby blue border. Hand-knotted with care,...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

This antique Khotan runner has a shaded buff-brown field with an overall design with a terracotta-orange vase at each end issuing an angular vine linking bold pomegranates and leafy ...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 8'0" x 10'0".

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

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x11 European flatweave rug in brown features rich brown underscores and green, blue and beige floral patterns, with a terracotta accent befitting such an ...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 8'2" x 9'10".

Contemporary aubusson silk and wool rug by Vincente Wolf for Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 6'0" × 7'10" (182 × 238 cm). I was told that a rug should be like a poem on the floor, this is l...

1930s Chinese Carpet ( 13'9" x 27' - 420 x 823 )

Two pine trees surge in parallel up the cerise field, with details in sky blue and salmon, and are finialed at both ends by spreading, straight nearly bare branches forming Vees, Sh...

Antique Peking Chinese rug, size: 7' 9'' x 9' 4''.

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 2" x 17' 10".

Gorgeous Soft Gray Oushak Angora Design Contemporary Rug, Country of origin: China, Circa date: Modern

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'6" x 11'4" - 260 x 345 )

A contemporary East Turkestan Khotan room Size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 10" x 13' 1".

Antique Chinese - Ningxia rug, size: 8'8" x 9'10".

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Dragon Carpet ( 5' x 8' - 152 x 244 )

A very finely knotted antique Chinese carpet from the Art Nouveau period distinguished by a tone-on-tone all over design of stylized lotus flowers connected to one another through a ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'9" - 280 x 358 )

The straw beige field displays a characteristic three moon medallion pattern, with two moons enclosing octogramme motives. Supporting scatter with butterflies, leaves and flower arr...

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 4" x 12' 0"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 9"

An antique East Turkestan Khotan carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 4' 6" x 7' 10".

From its elegance and unusual style, one can recognize this splendid Chinese carpet from the Art Deco period. The wool is shiny and silky, spun thicker than ordinary Chinese wool. Th...

Mid-19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Kang Carpet ( 5'6" x 10' - 168 x 305 )

This is an 18th-century imperial silk Chinese textile that measures 79 x 47CM in size. This rare example has been preserved in excellent condition and has retained its dramatic satur...

Antique Chinese rug, size: 10' 9'' x 17' 3''.

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'5" - 280 x 350 cm )

1920s Chinese Baotou Rug ( 2'2" x 4'6" - 66 x 137 )

An African Tuareg Inspired East Turkestan Modern room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 0" x 12' 0"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 10" x 11' 9"

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 2' 6'' x 19' 3'' - 76 x 586 )

Antique Chinese Peking rug ivory background, Size:8'1" x 15'6".

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 7" x 11' 4" - 260 x 345 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 5' x 7' 10" - 150 x 240 cm )

A vintage Chinese Peking throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cream border and light blue field. Measures: 2' 6" x 4' 3" 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...

Elevate your space with this exquisite antique Chinese Peking runner, a rare and refined textile from the late 1800s. Showcasing a timeless ivory and blue color palette, this hand-kn...

Vintage Samarkand rug Measures: 6'10" x 12'10" Vintage Samarkand rug - originate from East Turkestan, the central hub of the famous Silk Route for more than 1000 years. Made in...

From Rug & Kilim’s European collection, an 8x10 Tudor style flatweave with medallions & pictorial patterns in regal black, gold & off white. Handwoven in wool, a fine weave with coar...

Antique Chinese - Art Deco rug. Measures: 11'8" x 19'8".

Antique Chinese - Peking rug, size: 8'2" x 9'9".

Handwoven in wool, this 9x12 kilim is a new unveiling Rug & Kilim’s European Collection by Rug & Kilim, inspired by 18th-century Aubusson flatweaves. On the Design: This rug enjoy...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 9'6" - 275 x 290 )

The tan field shows a version of the characteristic pomegranate tree and vase pattern, with confronting single trees whose upturned branches dangle textured pomegranate fruit. Centr...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 2'9" x 13'10" - 84 x 422 )