Early 20th Century Rugs and Carpets

21686 Antique Persian Shiraz rug with Tribal Style 05'01 x 06'08. With its rustic sensibility and tribal style, this hand-knotted wool antique Persian Shiraz rug will take on a curat...

76865, antique Persian Sarouk rug with Art Nouveau style. This highly desirable antique Persian Sarouk rug with Art Nouveau style features an impressive all-over floral design render...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11' 2''x 14' 2'' - 340 x 432 cm )

60821, distressed antique Persian Shiraz rug with Garden Panel Four Seasons design. Cleverly composed and distinctively well-balanced, this hand knotted wool distressed antique Persi...

Only a very limited group of the carpets, woven during the thirties at the Tianjin city looms in northern China, are decorated by geometric patterns typical of the Art Deco period. The large majority of Tianjin rugs...

78102 antique Persian Malayer rug 04'01 x 06'05. Effortless beauty and a timeless design combined with rustic sensibility, this hand-knotted wool antique Persian Malayer rug is a cap...

A very fine Art Deco Chinese carpet, circa 1920. Cream background and blue decoration. Measures: cm 530 x 310 Proveniente from an Italian aristocratic estate.

Rare Viennese Art Nouveau Rug Size: 8'5" × 13'7" (256 × 414 cm) A unique example of vintage Viennese European Deco rug dating back to circa 1900. This...

Antique Persian Heriz Oriental Rug, Room size An antique Persian Heriz oriental rug, Size 11'9 x 9'8, circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a central medallion on the coral field. The central field is enclosed within an outer border in navy tones with repeating geometric abstracts. The short wool pile is even throughout, and the rug is in excellent condition for its age and weaving style. A great value, and an excellent choice for an entry way, a foyer, a living space, a bedroom, or for use as wall decor or as a decorative accent! Bring this beautiful rug...

72590 Antique Persian Lilihan Rug, 03'07 x 04'10. Bathed in regal tones of deep wine and sapphire, this hand-knotted wool antique Persian Lilihan rug presents a radiant tableau of fl...

The salmon open field is centered by a small hexagonal green hook edged medallion which matches the field corners. The green border displays octogramme ros...

Hand knotted in wool, this very special Arts & Crafts 12 x 17 rug joins Rug & Kilim’s Antique & Vintage collection. Originating from Spain circa 1900-1910, ...

Beautiful hand knotted vintage Persian Heriz wool rug. This rug has a red field with multicolored accents and a medallion floral design. This rug measures 8' 4" x 12' 9" circ...

Our research dates this rug to the late 19th century. It is an authentic Persian Bidjar wool rug, with its origins from Persia, or modern day Iran. This is a very traditional design,...

Beautiful antique Heriz hand-knotted wool rug with a red field. This Heriz rug has a navy-blue frame and multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over geometric medallion floral design....

Beautiful antique Heriz hand-knotted wool rug with a peach color field. This Persian rug has a blue frame with beige and rust accents in a gorgeous all-over geometric medallion desig...

This richly textured hand-woven wool patchwork rug is a masterful reimagining of traditional textile art. Constructed from carefully selected fragments of vintage rugs, each square c...

77760 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug Inspired by Walter Nichols, 12'03 x 19'08. Aside from the rich cultural symbolism attached to each image, the ambiguo...

53694 Distressed antique Persian Mahal rug 09'09 x 11'00. Effortless beauty combined with rustic sensibility, this hand-knotted w...

Chinese - Art Deco rug. Measures: 8'2" x 9'6".

Early 20th Century Turkish Oushak Carpet 12' x 15'8" - 365 x 477 cm

This exquisite hand-woven cotton patchwork rug is a serene composition of soft pastel hues and vintage textures, expertly assembled from antique flatweave textiles. Tthe rug blends i...

This antique Sarouk rug made in the beginning of 20th century in red wool. The rug is in original good condition.

This beautiful, small antique Chinese Art Deco rug is hand-knotted from high-quality wool. Its soft pink background is decorated with a vibrant, multicolored floral pattern elegantly...

Size: 10ft 7in x 8ft 4in (322 x 255cm). Antique Tekke Turkmen main carpet with 4 rows of 12 guls. Circa 1900. An interesting Tekke main carpet of room size, the soft pink / red f...

72610, antique Nahavand Hamadan accent rug with tribal style, small runner. Traditional meets bohemian in this stunning artifact of Persian weaving. Tribal and rustic in style, this ...

:: Triple center medallions in hook and latch relief detailing on the perimeter. Herati style serrated leaves covering throughout. Colors and shades include: Sapphire blue, chestnut ...

70718 Antique Chinese Art Deco Rug, 03'00 x 04'10. Emanating the quiet elegance of a bygone era, this hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Art Deco rug unfolds like a page from a poetic...

Beautiful antique Bakshaish hand-knotted wool rug with a rust field. This piece has a blue frame and beige accents on a gorgeous Classic all-over floral design. This rug measures ...

Tiny birds along with rosettes and lozenges occupy the tan field around the puce doubly serrated central hexagonal medallion with flattened cruciform fillers. The much-abrashed dark ...

Antique Caucasian Kazak Runner with Medallions in Red, Blue, and Yellow. Keivan Woven Arts / rug L11-1205, country of origin / type: Iran / Tribal, circa 1900 Measures: 3'6 x 16. Thi...

72027 Antique Turkish Sparta Palace Size Rug with Luxe Victorian Style 11'01 x 20'02. Rich in color, texture and beguiling ambiance, this hand knotted wool palace size antique Sparta rug beautifully embodies a luxe Victorian style. The abrashed navy blue field is covered in a sparse all-over floral pattern composed of roses, splayed palmettes, stylized florals, leafy tendrils, lotus blossoms, curved sickle leaves, tulips, delicate vines, and amorphous organic shapes. Floral sprigs and blossoms add interest while large sickle leaves anchor the corner spandrels. It is enclosed with a raspberry pink Herati border flanked with inner and outer rosette and leafy meander guard borders and thin subsidiary guard bands. Alluring and richly ornamented, this large antique palace rug displays all the elements of an elegant oriental carpet. With its commitment to tradition and heart full of whimsy, this antique Sparta rug can enliven nearly any opulent period-interior with color and vitality. Perfect for a great room, wine cellar, executive suite, conservatory, state room, royal suite, hotel lobby, music room, living room, dining room, drawing room, private library, golf locker room, billiards room, clubhouse, large home office, master retreat, private Chambers, studio, study, loft, lounge, entertainment parlor, trophy room, large bedroom, or formal sitting room. Well-suited for a wide range of interior styles: Victorian, Baroque, Regency, Louis XIV, Louis XI, Louis XV, English Traditional, Manor House, Medieval, Henry VIII, French, Rococo, Hepplewhite, Hollywood Regency, Queen Anne, Tudor, Chippendale, Neoclassical, Jacobean, Traditional, English Cottage, Old World, Contemporary, and Eclectic. Whether in a formal setting with elaborate furnishings or in an Ottoman style interior, this antique palace size rug...

An antique Persian Qashqai rug from the early 20th century. Measures: 4' 1" x 6' 7"

60666 Distressed Antique Persian Mahal Rug with Traditional English Rustic Style 10'00 x 12'03. With its perfectly worn-in charm and rustic sensibility, this hand-knotted wool distre...

An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...

Late 19th Century N.W. Persian Serapi Carpet ( 9'6" x 12'3" - 290 x 373 )

Beautiful antique Malayer hand knotted wool rug with a purple field. This Malayer piece has a pink and beige frame and accents in a gorgeous all-over floral shabby chic design. Th...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with pink color background, size: 8'9" x 11'6".

Beautiful Antique Bakhtiari hand-knotted wool rug with a rust color field. This Persian piece has an all-over classic multicolor pattern design. This rug measures 11'7" x 14'.  

Beautiful antique Chinese Peking hand knotted wool rug with a blue field, orange frame, and multi-color accents in an all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measure: 9' ...

The sandy ivory field shows a well-spaced centralized pattern of palmettes, barbed leaves, and broken vinery segments, accented in goldenrod, teal, rust, and salmon. The straw border...

78724 Antique Persian Farahan Pictorial Rug, 04'03 x 06'05. A Farahan tableau rug refers to a type of Persian pictorial rug originating from the region of ...

Antique Persian rug handwoven from the finest sheep’s wool and colored with all-natural vegetable dyes that are safe for humans and pets. It’s a traditional Mahal design featuring fl...

Made with wool and originating from Germany circa 1920, this piece is a rare 9x12 antique hooked rug with floral patterns and a large-sized medallion. On the Design: Admirers of ...

The Beni Ouarain confederation is composed of seventeen tribes inhabiting the high mountain region of the northeastern Middle Atlas. Their rugs differ from other Berber weavings in t...

Beautifully Simplistic Geometric Antique Minimalist French Art Deco Design Area Rug, Country Of Origin / Rug Type: French Rug, Circa Date: 1930’s

Antique Indian Agra Oriental rug, size 11'9" H x 9'0" W. An antique Indian Agra Oriental Rug, size 11'9" H x 9'0" W, in Room size, circa 1910. This fine floral wool rug features a f...

Beautiful antique Heriz hand-knotted wool rug with a beige field. This Persian rug has a blue frame and accents in an all-over gorgeous traditional geometric medallion motif design. ...

The golden ivory field presents a large-scale, very spacious version of the Perso-Caucasian Hershang all-over design with ragged palmettes, pointed oval cartouches and stiff vines. T...

Chinese Art Deco Rug By Walter Nichols This exquisite Walter Nichols Chinese Art Deco rug is a stunning example of early 20th-cent...

Beautiful Vintage Tabriz hand-knotted wool rug with a tan color field. This piece has a dark blue frame, multicolor accents, and a gorgeous all-over floral design. This rug measur...

Antique Turkish Oushak decorative oriental carpet, room size, with green field. A gorgeous antique Turkish Oushak carpet, circa 1900, size 13'4" x 10'2" This lovely carpet features ...

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

Antique Turkish Oushak Handmade Wool rug Size: 12'0" × 14'2" (365 × 431 cm) An early 20th century Turkish Oushak antique rug, the pale field, having a garden design of weeping willow...

The Donegal carpet factory was responsible for the weaving of the most significant hand-knotted carpets of the Arts & Crafts period. Guided initially by British architect-designers s...

An antique Persian Tabriz carpet from the early 20th century.

An antique Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 8' 5".

This beautiful green antique Persian Zigler rug is an oversized piece. With weaves from influences of the Arak provence, this piece will accentuate any luxurious interior home design...