20th Century Rugs and Carpets

The rare examples which can be attributed to Ivan da Silva Bruhns (1881-1980) are among the most sought after French Art Deco carpets. Characterized by geometric elements clearly inf...

Originating circa 1950-1960 as a vintage Bessarabian flat-weave Kilim, the style of this piece is distinctly Romanian, a country famed as the origin of some of the most celebrated Bessarabian Kilim designs archetypal of the European Kilim style. Hand knotted using wool, this vintage Romanian floral flat-weave Kilim rug features a black background upon which sits a center floral bouquet of flowers in reds, pinks and blues, while a parrot of the same colors sits atop a yellow branch...

This antique Persian Karajeh rug, dating back to the 1910s, is a remarkable example of traditional tribal craftsmanship. Woven with high-quality wool, it features a striking geometri...

From our new collection of overdyed rugs, a 8×11 vintage Persian rug, hand-knotted in wool circa 1970-1980. On the Design: This vintage rug has been given a particular wash to give...

Classic Art Deco Stylized Throw Rug / wall hanging after Donald DeskEy, Amazing design, graphics, reminiscent of famed carpet used in Radio City Music Hall designed by Donald Deskey,...

Beautiful geometric Folk Art vintage Moroccan rug, country of origin: Morocco, date: circa 1980. Size: 5 ft 7 in x 8 ft 8 in (1.7 m x 2.64 m).

This magnificent Persian Isfahan rug, crafted during the 1970s, is a testament to timeless Persian artistry. Hand-knotted with exceptional skill, it features a luxurious blend of kor...

Italian artist Ugo Nespolo early rug, Italy, 1970s. Signed.  

Italian modern rectangular rug with brown and orange geometric decorations 1970s Rectangular short pile rug. The rug is decorated with regular geometric shapes of different sizes tha...

Late 19th Century Persian Malayer Carpet ( 11' 10" x 16' 6" - 360 x 503 cm)

1920s Scenic Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop

A rare and sweet early 20th century Chinese Peking runner with a field containing an all-over patter of petite flowers woven in pale pinks, greens, and indigos against a light indigo background. The border is unusual too, with a similar petite floral pattern with large Buddhist...

A vintage Turkish runner rug re-dyed in fuchsia pink color for contemporary interiors. Finely hand knotted, low wool pile on cotton foundation. Professionally washed. Sturdy and ca...

A vintage Persian Mashad small room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 8' 0" x 10' 0".

An early 20th century Persian Shiraz Kilim runner with all-over multi-colored diamond and geometric pattern surrounded by a complementary geometric border.

This fabulous Hand-Knotted carpet has been created and designed for extra strength and durability. This rug has been handcrafted for weeks in the traditional method that is used to m...

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...

A Primitive room size 20th Century Kars Rug Details rug no. j3339 size 8' 11" x 10' 10" (272 x 330 cm)

an early 20th-century square size English Needlepoint Measures: 6'10'' x 7'8''   

Antique Art Deco Rug Handmade Chinese Rug 10x13 1920 9'9" x 12'8" 298cm x 386cm "This is a beautiful antique art deco rug with simple motifs. This piece has a great neutral colorwa...

Elevate your space with this exquisite Aubusson-style tapestry featuring a romantic depiction of a loving couple in the countryside, nestled under a tree. Sheep graze nearby, and a g...

An early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Rug with an all over crab design on a pinky red ground Details rug no. j3139 size 11' 7" x 15' (353 x 457 cm)

61005 Vintage Persian Mahi Tabriz rug, 09'11 x 12'08. With ornate details and well-balanced symmetry, this hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Mahi Tabriz ru...

Eclectic Vintage Turkish Pictorial rug from the middle part of the 20th century. 2'2'' x 3'6''

Add a touch of timeless elegance to your home with this traditional vintage hand knotted Turkish area rug, crafted from 100% premium wool. This exquisite piece captures the essence o...

This is a Hand made Swedish country Rag Rug out of cotton.

A vintage Tibetan Art Deco accent rug designed and signed by Nini Ferrucci, and handmade during the late 20th century. Measures: 6' 9" x 8' 3"

Discover the elegance of this unique Donegal featuring Area Rugs in Circa 1990. Designed with meticulous attention to detail, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

A very unusual design for its group.

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...

This is a Scandinavian Rug Flat-weave, often referred to as a "rölakan" or "rollakan" due to its tight weaving technique, signed by Ingegerd Silow, indicated by the initials "IS". Ch...

Very pretty antique french Aubusson style tapestry with beautiful design from the nature with an eagle. Woven on Jacquard loom with wool and cotton. ✨✨✨ "Experience the epitome of lu...

78847 Vintage Persian Gabbeh Rug, 06'11 x 09'02. Radiating with tribal enchantment and artisanal charm, this exquisite hand-knotted wool vintage Persian Gabbeh rug is a captivating e...

A Robert Kidd handwoven area rug/wall hanging. This is a stunning pop of 1970s color. This beautiful textile features an abstract pattern of colors washing throughout the rug. Each o...

Discover the elegance of Afghanistan Moroccan featuring Runner Rug in Circa 1990. Designed with Wool and BlueIvory, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

Kashan Rug Antique Cira 1930s

60968 Distressed Vintage Persian Malayer Gallery Rug 05'00 x 11'04. With its lovingly time-worn composition and rugged beauty, this hand-knotted wool distressed vintage Persian Malay...

Make a bold statement in a hallway with this early 20th century tribal Persian Serab runner featuring a folksy motif on a camel brown field. Various Animal and Human figures are foun...

Discover the elegance of Persian Tabriz featuring Over Size Rug in Circa 1990. Designed with Wool and BrownIvoryTaupe, this exclusive design is perfect for enhancing your space.

Vintage Indian Rug 12'1'' x 17'8''. A hooked and doubly layered, mostly empty ecru octagonal medallion centres the khaki field which is also ornamented with goldenrod yellow budding ...

Blush Red, Antique Persian Bijar, Full Pile and Soft, Shabby Chic, Sides and Ends Professionally Secured, Hand Knotted, 100% Wool, Oriental Rug Primary materials: Wool Latex: No Pile...

Antique Persian Bakhtiari Rug 8'7'' x 11'1''. The unusual saturated goldenrod field of this Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari weaving shows a rough lozenge lattice enclosing a variety of inform...

78185 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 10'02 x 11'07. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese pictorial rug features a colorblock field design. With its cold, arid climate ideal for rais...

1920s Mat size Persian Senneh floral rug Details rug no. 9923 size 1' 4" x 2' (41 x 61 cm) Antique Senneh rugs are one of the most distinctive of all Persian rugs, even though the ...

Hand-embroidered large Suzani textile made from the middle of the 20th century featuring a wild animal human pictorial motif on a pink ground Me...

Infuse your home with the timeless beauty of this traditional vintage handmade Turkish rug, a hand-knotted masterpiece crafted from a luxurious blend of wool and cotton. Woven by ski...

A colorful antique early 20th century Turkish Oushak rug. The field is teal; the border is pink. The rug has a lot of character and exhilarating in person Measures: 13'4” x 15'8” ...

73326 Antique Persian Sarab Rug Runner, 03'05 x 11'06. Persian Sarab rugs and carpet runners hail from the northwest reaches of Iran and are renowned for their exceptional artisanshi...

Discover the Tibetan Tiger Rug, meticulously hand-woven and knotted from highland sheep wool by master weavers. Reserved for emperors, lamas, and noble f...

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...

This is an antique palace size Indian Dhurrie rug flat-woven kilim circa 1920 - 1950 and measures a massive 890 x 545 CM in size. It has an all-over design with rows of repeating red...

Antique Turkmen hand-knotted wool rug featuring a timeless beige color field. This Persian masterpiece showcases a stunning Gul pattern design, intricately woven in rich brown and vi...

A nicely made, handwoven Navajo rug. Would be a nice addition to your Native American collection or eye-catching accent piece. Dimensions: 38" high, 48" wide.

Handwoven in wool and originating from France circa 1950-1960, this 4×6 vintage tapestry is a signed collectible from the mid-century Aubusson works of French weaver Jean Lurcat. O...

Originating circa 1980-1990, a tribal piece joining our prestigious collection of vintage flatweaves—a collectible Persian Sofreh curation among our latest. The 3x3 piece enjoys an o...

One-of-a-kind Persian animal motif red Gabbeh rug from the late 20th century Measures: 4' x 6'3''.

A four lobed, nearly open, apricot field is centered on a vase on stand with flowering bouquet, rocks and more flowers fill the blue corners of this 1920s Chinese carpet in the Art D...

The carpets of the Tuareg, who are cattle herding nomads inhabiting a vast expanse of the Sahara desert, are among the most exciting group of weavings to appear on the market. These ...