Early 20th Century Rugs and Carpets

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1910-1920, this 9x12 antique Persian rug of Kashan provenance is a rare and particularly exciting new curation from the Rug & Kilim Collection. On the Des...

Antique Russian 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 Kazak design featuring Sc...

Antique American hooked rug, size: 2'5" x 4'9". Pictorial.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 4' x 6'8'' - 122 x 203 )

Antique Central Asian rug made of exquisite wool and the finest vegetable dyes. It exhibits a centerfield with a unique geometric design enc...

Beautiful early 20th century Turkish rug with a decorative design and green and pink salmon colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation. ✨✨✨ "Experience the ...

A charming Chinese Art Deco rug with a gray field surrounded by a violet border. The field depicts a flowering cherry tree perched above a scholars rock at the edge of a garden. The ...

Beautiful early 20th century Kurdish Caucasian runner with nice geometrical Kazak design and beautiful colors with dark blue, light blue, pink grey and green, entirely hand knotted w...

60846, distressed antique Persian Tabriz rug with rustic Italian Tuscan style. Cleverly composed and distinctively well-balanced, this hand knotted wool distressed antique Persian Ta...

Antique beautiful Scatter Caucasian rug, hand knotted wool with a navy blue field, ivory and rust accents in an allover geometric design. This rug measures 3' 8" x 5' 7" circa 1890.

Beautiful Antique Farahan hand-knotted wool rug with a navy blue field. This Persian rug has multi-color accents on a Classic boteh design. This rug measures 9'5" x 16'8".  

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

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from Germany circa 1920-1930, this 3x6 antique tiger runner rug is an exciting, rare new curation from the Rug & ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Baotou Carpet with Phoenix 5'6" x 9' - 168 x 274

Handmade carpet antique rug with Traditional pattern and sombre colour-ways drench this high-quality rug, highly detailed Turkish area rug. Simple repeat geometric patterns have been...

A wonderfully bold early 20th century Persian Heriz rug with a large central multicolored medallion woven in richly saturated crimson, lime green, light and dark indigo, and white wo...

French Art Deco Savonnerie carpet, France, circa 1920.       

74647, antique Afghani tribal rug or kitchen, bath, foyer or entryway. This hand-knotted wool antique Afghani tribal rug features a geometric pattern i...

Hand-knotted in wool circa 1900-1910, this 9x11 antique Arts & Crafts rug is believed to be a rare work from C.F.A. Voysey. On the Design: This particular Voysey rug is believed to originate in Ireland, given its similarities to Donegal rugs of this provenance. Its design further hosts the quintessential open field that connoisseurs often associate with this artist’s signature style—though open field designs are especially collectible in handmade rugs today. The colorway enjoys chartreuse and similar greens, with bright blues and pinks in its borders and floral patterns. Its particular use of botanicals and garlands around the field lead the eye naturally to the more subtle patterns in the center—almost akin to greenery around rippling water in a pond, like many paintings of the same movement in this era. Connoisseurs will admire this as a collectible as much as an elegant masterpiece of its period—exemplary of Voysey’s European rugs. Condition: This antique botanical rug...

51454 Vintage Earth-Tone Turkish Oushak Rug, 07'00 x 11'03. Like an ancient parchment softened by centuries, this hand-knotted wool vintage Turkish Oushak rug reveals its secrets in ...

Important AUBUSSON Tapestry "Agamemnon Victorious Distributing the Booty to the Greeks" Early 20th Century Polychrome wool tapestry with a central historiated scene within a border o...

77435 antique Antique Chinese Palace rug with Persian Tabriz style. With timeless appeal, refined colors, and architectural design elements, this ha...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug by Nichols Workshop ( 3' x 4'8'' - 92 x 142 )

An early 20th century Persian Tabriz rug in earth tones with an autumn-like motif.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 12' - 275 x 365 )

Beautiful early 20th century Kurdish rug with nice geometrical tribal design and beautiful colors with green, blue, red, brown and orange, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on w...

This rare near-square vintage Persian Kerman Lavar rug, woven in the first quarter of the 1900s, showcases a remarkable all-over large paisley pattern — a striking expression of clas...

Made with 100% pure wool and plant-based dyes, this antique Persian rug was made in the 1920s according to Azerbaijan weaving patterns that feature crafty repetition of figures. This...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark indigo border surrounded a gray oval medallion overlaid with multi-colored peonies, lotus, chrysanthemum, and sherry b...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'3" x 17'2" - 343 x 523 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'2" x 11'9" - 279 x 358 )

Beautiful antique Farahan hand-knotted wool rug with a dark blue field. This Persian rug has a rusted designed frame with blue and beige accents on a classic floral medallion design....

78523 Antique Persian Bibikabad Rug Runner, 02'07 x 20'02. Full of tiny details and nomadic charm, this hand knotted wool Persian runner is ...

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

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

An antique Persian Tabriz large room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Floral sprouts decorate the field along with an arabesque pattern shaping a quatrefoil and sp...

Beautiful Antique Kerman hand-knotted wool rug with the beige field. This Persian rug has a designed frame and blue, red, and green accents in a gorgeous all-over botanical floral de...

A long-arm pole medallion of three stepped lozenges in slate and buff stretches the length of the abrashed light blue field of this rug, with sympathetic half poles at the sides and ...

This beautiful Vintage Woven Persian Mashad hand-knotted design rug will make your floor look splendid. This collection is made in wool. It's measures ar...

Beautiful antique Khotan hand-knotted wool rug with a beige color field. This Khotan rug has brown, yellow, and peach accents in a geometric multi-medallion design. This rug measur...

A beautiful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark golden orange field with a central pagoda medallion, garden pavilion...

An antique Chinese Ningxia square throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 3" x 2' 4" 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 Chinese Art Deco runner, hand knotted wool with a navy blue field, tan frame in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. This rug measures: 2'6" x 4'10". ...

78338 Antique Persian Serapi rug, measures 11'10 x 15'10. Highlighting the coveted allover design, incredible detail and texture, this hand knotted wool antique Persian Serapi rug is...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a bright gold field surrounded by a wide orange border, both overlaid with multicolored lotus and peonies, and butterflies.

Beautiful antique tabriz hand-knotted wool rug with a red field. This Persian rug has a navy blue frame and multicolor accents in a gorgeous all-over geometric medallion floral motif...

Beautiful antique Persian Tabriz hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This piece has a beige accent in an all-over gorgeous floral design. This rug measures: 6'6" x 6'4".    ...

Beautiful Antique Bakhtiari hand-knotted wool rug with a red burgundy field. This Persian piece has an all-over multicolor accent in a gorgeous classic Medallion motif. This rug mea...

61265 Antique Persian Malayer Rug, 03'11 x 07'10. Antique-washed Persian Malayer rugs are from the Malayer region in western Iran that have undergone a special washing process to sof...

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

Hand-knotted in wool, originating from Persia, circa 1900-1910, this 6x10 antique Persian Heriz rug is an elegant work from one of the most celebrated provenances in Iranian weaving....

Early 20th Century Indian Cotton Dhurrie Carpet. The totally plain salmon-orange field is neatly framed by the middle blue and salmon squared wave border....

This rug presents a tranquil and sophisticated palette of earthy browns and soft beige, exuding a sense of quiet elegance. The field is adorned with large, blooming floral motifs, me...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand-knotted wool with a goldenrod field, navy- blue, red frame, and multi-color accents in a subtle all-over Classic Chinese floral design. ...

This vintage kilim showcases a striking plaid-inspired design in contrasting gray, brown, charcoal and neutral tones. Woven with a meticulous balance of structured lines and natural ...

Rug Number 17218 Size 3' 5" X 6' 2" Design Chichi Collection Antique/Vintage Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin Russia Age Antique/Vintage.

Soumak is a tapestry technique of weaving strong and decorative textiles used as rugs and domestic bags. It is a type of flat-weave, somewhat resembling but stronger and thicker than...

An antique Persian Tabriz room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a greyish blue field and cream border. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 8".