Rug & Kilim's Distressed Style Dragon Rug in Brown, Blue, Red Pictorials

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x10 modern dragon distressed rug, originating from India, is an exciting addition to the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design: Connoisseurs may admir...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 6x9 modern dragon distressed rug, originating from India, is an exciting addition to the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design: Connoisseurs may admire...

Drawing inspiration from iconic 19th century Chinese & Tibetan dragon rugs, we present an 8x10 vision from our Homage Collection embracing dragon im...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x10 modern dragon distressed rug, originating from India, is an exciting addition to the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design: Connoisseurs may admir...

Antique Dragon Design Mongolian Rug, Country of Origin: Mongolia, Circa date: 1880. Size: 10 ft 3 in x 11 ft (3.12 m x 3.35 m)  

This Antique hand-knotted wool rug exudes vintage charm with its elegant distressed floral pattern, inspired by the rich heritage of rich rug-making. The intricate allover floral des...

The design source of the rug comes from the book Orient Star – A Carpet Collection, E. Heinrich Kirchheim, Hali Publications Ltd, 1993, nr.57. There has long been a fascination with the symbolism of the dragon and its depiction in carpet weavings. The design of ‘Dragon’ carpets consists of a field pattern composed of different colored overlaid lattices formed of pointed, serrated leaves creating intersecting lozenges, which alternately contain palmettes and are flanked by confronting stylized dragons, birds, or animal figures. The most archaic of the ‘Dragon’ carpets include dragon motifs with birds and running animals that are relatively naturalistically drawn, which stand either alone or in confronting pairs facing a tree. The Graf carpet, originally found in a Damascene mosque, now in the Islamic Museum, Berlin, is considered to be the oldest example of this type, see Serare Yetkin, Early Caucasian Carpets in Turkey, Vol. II, London, 1978, p.8, fig.118. Yetkin defines four types of ‘Dragon’ carpet: ‘Archaic’, ‘Four-Dragon’, ‘Dragon-and-Phoenix’ and as a further combined development of the latter, the ‘Two-Dragon’ style, of which the present carpet falls into the ‘Dragon-and-Phoenix group along with other examples, some of which include two fragments, one in the Museum fur Kunst und Gerwerbe, Hamburg; another in the Christian Museum, Esztergom, Hungary, a complete carpet in the Kier collection; an incomplete example in the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C; the ‘Cassirer’ Dragon carpet in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, Lugano; the Ali Pasa Mosque carpet in Tokat, and a further example in the Vakiflar Hali Museum, Istanbul (S. Yetkin, op. cit. pp.16-20). It has been suggested that the earliest examples of the Caucasian ‘Dragon’ carpets...

A fine antique Persian Senneh scatter size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century Measure: 3'6'' x 5' circa 1930 Antique Senneh rugs are one of the most distinctive of ...