Woven Chinese and East Asian Rugs

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand-knotted wool with a navy blue field and light brown frame featuring a subtle classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 3'11" x 6...

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

Aquarium is a mainstay in Joseph Carini's signature collections and is one of his most sought after designs. A luxurious and sophisticated carpet, this design is versatile for many d...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'2" - 275 x 340 )

Antique Peking rug Chinese Art Deco rug pink purple handmade Chinese rug 2x3 2'4" x 3'4" 71cm x 102cm "This is a beautiful antique...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 9x11 European rug in black is the first iteration of this design to be in high-and-low texture. Featuring beige/brown, green and pink floral patterns among...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand-knotted wool with a brown field. This rug has a navy blue frame and multi-color accents in an all-over, Classic Chinese floral design. T...

Ningxia North Central China 17'10" x 17'10" Circa 1850 Warp: cotton, off white, handspun, Z-4-S Weft: cotton, off white, handspun, 2 shoots alternating Pile: wool, 3 strand, handspun Knot: asymmetric, open left, 48 knots per square inch Sides: one cord, offwhite cotton wrapped End: no original finish This is a particularly large example of a Mandarin official’s carpet with a central medallion displaying nine lion dogs collectively symbolic of success on the national Chin Shih examination which provided guaranteed entry into the national administrative bureaucracy and the wealth devolving therefrom. The nine lion dogs are a rebus for success in the national bureaucracy. The apricot ground features 11 full or partial rows of tree paeonies, flower and stem. This carpet is particularly large and clearly was made for a highly placed official or the wealthy family of a recent graduate of whom great things were expected. The principal was probably Buddhist as indicated by the embroidered ball and precious objects in the medallion. The clouds surrounding the lion dogs form a broken, polychrome circle rather than the usual continuous cloud wreath. This is one of the several features indicating a bespoke order rather than a piece made for the market. Another indicator is the exceptional size, as the standard square Ningxia Mandarin carpet is about 12 to 14 feet square. The main border continues the colour combination, with a now apricot ground and paeonies among floral arabesques. The blue inner stripe is unusual with butterflies alternating with paired peaches...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8'' x 11'4'' - 265 x 345 ) Floral design with burnt orange field & fuchsia color border.

A vintage Chinese Pictorial rug handmade during the mid-20th century with 2 dragons in ruby red over a green open field. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 6".

This hand-woven reproduction Samarkand Khotan rug has an ivory field of counterposed pomegranate vines issued from delicate vases throughout, in tonal beige and medium blue tradition...

Nice 20th century Chinese rug with Chinese design and beautiful colors with pink, blue, yellow and green, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundations. ✨✨✨ "Experien...

Our over-dyed rugs are all hand-knotted vintage pieces that are recreated in our workshop to cater to a wider range of interior design choices from modern to coastal, from industrial...

The new millenium enacted a huge wave of creativity in rug design, this made possible by the many technological advances which allowed a clearer communication to weavers of the most ...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 9' 0" x 11' 9", features a refined and elegant floral design characteristic of the period’s aesthetic. The soft beige field is d...

30992 Modern Chinese Art Deco Rug with Chinoiserie Chic Style, 02'06 x 08'00. ​Chinoiserie Chic meets Modern Luxe in this hand knotted wool Chinese Art Deco style runner. The timeles...

Early 19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet 5'4" x 9'8" - 163 x 295

The Older Antique Chinese Rugs, as opposed to most other productions of Chinese goods, were woven almost exclusively for internal consumption. Since ...

This early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug is a vibrant tableau of leisure, abundance, and artistic sophistication. Two elegant women walk gracefully along the edge of a lush garde...

A beautiful vintage Chinese Art Deco hand knotted wool rug with a red field-wide, green frame and multi-color accents in all-over Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 10'10" ...

77818 Vintage Floral Kilim Rug, 04'02 x 06'00. This handwoven wool vintage floral kilim rug, hailing from the refined weaving traditions of China,...

A beautiful modern Chinese-style hand-knotted wool rug with a Chalky color field and navy blue and green accents throughout the traditional Chinese Peking design. This rug measures...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 9" 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 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...

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese rug, with a burgundy field, green frame in an allover classic Chinese floral design.China This rug measures 8' 9" x 14' 3", circa 1920.

78894 Antique Dark Pink Chinese Art Deco Rug, 09'00 x 11'05. Channeling the famed Walter Nichols style of the 1920s and 1930s, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug fea...

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Palace Size Rug Details rug no. j2845 size 11' 11" x 22' 9" (363 x 693 cm) Most found in Room size formats in...

74648 Vintage Edward Fields Octagon Rug, 16'00 x 16'00. Edward Fields rugs are renowned luxury rugs known for their exceptional craftsmanship and custom de...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet By Nichols Atelier ( 8'10" x 11'3" - 269 x 343 )

Contemporary Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet ( 7'10" x 10'5" - 238 x 317 )

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug. Size: 8'0" x 9'4".

1920s Chinese Peking Carpet, Size: ( 8' 1'' x 10' 7'' - 245 x 322 cm ) A refined Chinese Peking carpet dating to the 1920s, hand-knotted in wool with a striking sapphire-blue ground...

A colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century with a dragon motif Measures: 3' x 5'5''.

Late 20th-century narrow Tibetan Runner Measures: 1'11'' x 6'3''

Very rare antique Chinese Peking runner with a pictorial dragon motif found in field and border in two shades of predominant blues. The size on this piece is original which makes an ...

Vintage Chinese Peking Runner Art Deco 2'5" x 10'7" 74cm x 323cm "This is a very unique vintage Art Deco peking rug. It has beautiful rare colorway. This p...

19th Century Chinese Ningxia Mat ( 2' x 2'2" - 60 x 65 )

An 8x8 ode to the celebrated 18th-Century Aubusson tapestry flat weave style from Rug & Kilim’s European Collection. Handwoven in wool, this neoclassical rug inspiration enjoys a vis...

A 14x18 piece celebrating the 18th-Century Aubusson tapestry flat weave style, joining Rug & Kilim’s coveted European Collection. Handwoven in luscious wool, the rug features a regal...

A 2nd quarter of the 20th-century feminine colored Tibetan rug with a dragon motif on a brown color field. Size: 3'1'' x 5'7''.

Antique Chinese silk rug, size: 8'2" x 9'4".

Antique Chinese - Ningxia rug, Size: 3'0" x5'6".

30970 Modern Chinese Art Deco Pictorial Rug, 10'00 x 13'09. Showcasing a unique bamboo design, incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted wool...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'9" x 15' - 297 x 457 )

Colorful one-of-a-kind Tibetan rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century with a dragon motif on a bright orange field Measures: 3'4'' x 5'7''.

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in ruby and burgundy shades. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original good condition. It has some floral accent with large peac...

Large Vintage Chinese Art Deco carpet Size: 14'10" × 18'8" (452 × 568 cm). This striking early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco carpet masterfully blends Eastern symbolism with Western ...

A flower basket is suspended into the red field by a thin cord from a rosette and stem upper design, while a more elaborate floral display below includes banded scholars’ rocks and s...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 9' x 11' 6'' - 275 x 350

Handmade antique Art Deco Chinese rug in pink and black colors. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original condition, it has some low pile areas. -condition: origin...

31346 New Modern Chinese Art Deco Rug, 10'02 x 13'03. A breathtaking fusion of artistic legacy and exceptional craftsmanship, this hand-knotted, wool Chinese Art Deco rug is a tailor...

A 2nd quarter of the 20th-century Chinese Peking rug with a pictorial design in brown Size: 3'3'' x 5'2''.

78762 Antique Blue Chinese Peking Rug, 04'00 x 05'09. Chinese Peking rugs, originating from Beijing (formerly known as Peking), China, are renowned for their intricate designs, vibra...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 9'9" - 245 x 298 )

Beautiful mid century Chinese rug with an art deco style design and nice colours with a beige orange field, pink, orange, purple, green, yello...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'9" - 275 x 360 cm) Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Circa 1920 – 9' x 11'9" An elegant antique Chinese Peking rug, hand-knotted in woo...

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Rug ( 2'4" x 2'4" - 70 x 70 )

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

An early 20th-century Chinese Art Deco rug, beautifully woven with a lyrical and symbolic design. At its center, a gracefully twisting cherry blossom branch stretches across the fiel...

An early 20th century Chinese Art Deco mini round rug. 3'6'' x 3'10''