Early 20th Century Rugs and Carpets

78194 Antique Persian Sarouk Farahan rug. Measures: 03'04 x 04'07.

Tibetan Rug Blue Field Mythical Motif Enhance your living space with this beautifully handwoven Tibetan rug, featuring a striking blue field that evokes serenity and calm. Measuring ...

Rare Antique Persian malayer rug beige all over geometric overall tone on tone exceptional fine 9x12 1920 "This is a beautiful, exceptionally fine antique Malayer rug. It ha...

an early 20th-century room square Turkish Oushak Rug Details rug no. j2078 size 6' 9" x 7'8''

Tabriz is Iran's second oldest city, and was the earliest capital of the Safavid dynasty. The city has been the foremost Persian rug production town since the 15th century and the center of the world's weaving Community since the 1800s. Tabriz rug weavers are among the most skilled producers of quality rugs with the highest technical standards and the most varied repertoire. It is also worth mentioning that Tabriz rugs are the most traded rugs in the world. The designs are the most diverse designs of Persian carpets, and weavers used many different motifs, from Classic medallion to all-over patterns, in every color imaginable, from brilliant rich tones to soft pastels. This pristine antique Persian red oversize...

An early 20th century Persian Heriz rug Full Pile Condition featuring a dramatic medallion and large-scale design. Excellent Overall Condition. 11'9'' x 14'9''

Hand knotted in wool originating between 1900-1910, this antique Gabbeh Persian rug hosts transitional elements with a variety of Classic, rich colorways. The variety of fabulous blu...

This antique Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-knotted with wool and features a burgundy red field with a navy blue multicolor floral design. The classic Chinese floral pattern is elegant...

Geometric Accent rug perfect for a powder room or Kitchen. circa 1930 Details rug no. r5864 size 2' 6" x 4' (76 x 122 cm)

Timeless elegance meets storytelling artistry in this Vintage Chinese Art Deco rug, hand-knotted in the early 1900s. A true collector’s piece, this rug reflects the refined craftsman...

1920s Chinese Oval Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2'' x 7'9'' - 188 x 236 )

Handmade antique Malayer rug in black and white colors. The rug is from the beginning of 20th century in original condition, it has some low pile. -condition: original, some pile,...

1900's indian amritsar rug. Beautiful color. 17 by 37 in

Beautiful vintage Persian Malayer hand knotted runner with a blue field, beige, and ivory accents in an all-over geometric motif design, with muted neutral tones wool rug! This ru...

Beautiful antique Persian oversize Mahal rug, hand knotted wool with a rusty orange field, brown and tan accents in an all-over classic motif. This rug measures 11' x 16' 6" circa ...

Antique Turkish Oushak rug, country of origin: Turkey, date circa early 20th century. Size: 11 ft. 7 in x 14 ft. 7 in (3.53 m x 4.44 m) This rug is a wonderful example of Classic ...

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...

The vintage hand-knotted wool rug from Turkmen features a red color field, navy blue, beige, and orange accents, and fringes in an intricate geometric pattern. This rug measures 2'6...

An early 20th-century Lovelry Persian Kerman Measures: 8'' x 12'11''. The province and city of Kerman in Central Persia continued to make extraordinary carpets throughout the 19th century and turn of the 20th century. Satellite workshops were set up in Kerman in Western Persia, where densely patterned carpets with deep ruby or burgundy fields were usually produced. The term Laver Kerman, while referring to an actual town, is used in the antique rug market...

an early 20th century East Turkestan Khotan Pictorial rug Measures: 5'8'' x 8'8''.

An early 20th-century Chinese Peking carpet in tan and blue colors featuring a whimsical motif. circa 1920 measures: 4'1'' x 5'9"

A beautiful early 20th century Persian Bidjar runner with a field woven with an all-over repeated multi-colored floral pattern set against an abrash indigo background, surrounded by ...

Antique Navajo rug with geometric design and 3'11" x 5'3".

Handmade in wool and originating circa 1920-1930, this 3x3 rug is a rare and exciting new curation in Rug & Kilim’s collection of antique hooked rugs. On the Design: This collecti...

1920s Persian Tabriz Rug with a weeping willow tree design on a slightly worn dark field Details rug no. j3181 size 10' 1" x 14' 6" (307 x 442 cm)

An early 20th-century washed-out persian mashad small room size rug. pops of red show up in the rug as well Details rug no. j3962 size 8' x 9' 7" (244 x 292 cm)

Handwoven in a wool flatweave and originating from Ukraine circa 1900, this 14x19 antique Bessarbian kilim with floral patterns is one of the most special and exciting new pieces to ...

An extremely rare Art Deco rug designed in 1925 by Jean Burkhalter and commissioned by Pierre Chareau for a seaside mansion on the island of Corsica....

A rare 11-foot square early 20th-century shabby chic weather textured Chinese rug with a graphic floral Motif in denim blue, accents in white, and...

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

An antique Persian tribal accent rug handmade by the Shiraz tribe of south Persia during the early 20th century with a rare and unusual pictorial design of 4 chained tigers. Measu...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'8" - 270 x 355 cm )

This is Central Anatolian Antique Kilim, from the Isparta region with a rare and beautiful color composition. This highly collectible antique kilim has wonderful special colors and ...

Size: 11ft 6in x 8ft 7in (350 x 262cm). Antique Heriz carpet with a very well-drawn large medallion and excellent colours. Circa 1900. The carpet has a large central medallion of...

1920s Persian Sarouk Carpet ( 9' 6" x 12' - 290 x 365 cm)

A captivating antique Persian Oushak rug in the stunning warm colour palette that was made from the finest selection of natural dye and hand spun wool. The tranquil character of this...

Beautiful vintage Heriz rug, hand knotted wool with a tan field and ivory accents in all-over center medallion design. This rug measures 8' 8" x 12' 7", circa 1920.    

A truly unique miniature antique Turkish rug, decorated by a realistic-looking lion. Possibly commissioned for a specific occasion, it's the perfect gift for an animal-loving person,...

This all wool, symmetrically knotted scatter shows two large lozenges with open heart extenders, set between nested lozenges with doubly coiled accents. Busy supporting fill of rose...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet 7'11" x 9' 4"

This Persian rug showcases a stunning all-over layout geometric medallion floral motif in shades of blue and ivory, set against a peach and beige field. Crafted from luxurious hand-k...

This rug is an authentic hand knotted Sarouk rug with wool pile and cotton foundation. A Sarouk or Sarough rug is a type of Persian rug from Markazi Province in Iran and they are amo...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet, Size: 8'x9' 6"

Beautiful modern Samarkand hand-knotted wool rug with an orange field. This piece has brown, yellow, and pink accents all over the pictorial motif design. This rug measures: 4'6" ...

Antique sultanabad beautifully distressed. Great condition

Antique hand-woven Persian area rug made from fine wool and all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for people and pets. This beautiful piece features a rich field of floral details...

This bold handwoven kilim rug is an excellent example of a flatwoven geometric rug woven in Turkey in the early 20th century, circa 1910. The design features a bold geometric pattern...

This antique Persian Heriz rug is made with hand-knotted wool. The rust-red field showcases a captivating medallion pattern adorned with beige, peach, and brown shades. This rug mea...

77584 Antique Chinese Art Deco Pictorial rug with Cranes and Deer 02'04 x 04'08. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug fe...

an early 20th Century Stellar Persian Bakhtiari Square Room size rug Details rug no. j3307 size 11' x 12' 2" (335 x 371 cm)

Antique Donegal Arts and Crafts Rug Size: 12'6" × 15'10" (381 × 482 cm) Color: Mustard, Green, Lavender The Fintona, a Donegal carpet possibly designed by the silver studio and woven...

Handmade antique geometric American hooked rug in original good condition. The rug made in repeating arrowhead shaped pattern. Varity of colors are on it: brown, blue, red, beige sha...

An antique Chinese Peking long gallery carpet handmade during the early 20th century in shades of cream and blue. Measures: 5' 9" x 16' 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...

77868 Vintage Southwestern-Style Wide Ruins-Inspired Kilim Rug, 02'10 x 04'00. This exquisite vintage handwoven wool kilim captures the refined artistry and quiet elegance associated...

An antique Persian Sultanabad large carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 14' 3" x 17' 8".

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand-knotted wool with a red field, and a multi-color accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 8'09" x ...

Explore the legacy of Anatolian rugs, a term that encompasses the rich tapestry of carpets woven in Anatolia and its surrounding regions. Geographically, this area aligns with the historical dominion of the Ottoman Empire, a territory where the art of rug-making flourished. In ancient Anatolia, where harsh winters were a reality, ingenious weavers turned to the abundant resource of lamb's wool to craft thick-pile rugs that provided both warmth and comfort. Over millennia, this tradition evolved and was carried forth by nomadic Turks, eventually leaving an indelible mark on human culture and society. Our magnificent early 20th century Antique Yastik...

53652 Distressed Antique Caucasian Shirvan Rug Runner, 03'02 x 08'05. ​Balancing traditional sensibility and tribal design elements with nostalgic charm, this hand knotted wool distressed antique Caucasian Shirvan runner...