Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

Hand-knotted in luscious wool, an 8x10 vintage Art Deco rug inspired by Chinese sensibilities of the 1920s. On the Design: The abrashed golden tones marry the sheen of wool for a...

Beautiful antique Chinese Art Deco rug, hand knotted wool with a red field, and multi-color accents in an all-over Classic Chinese floral design, circa 1920. This rug measures 9'...

This 7x7 ode to French Art Deco rugs is the next addition to Rug & Kilim’s newly inspired Deco Collection. Hand-knotted in wool. Further on the Design: This piece boasts the Deco...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'10" x 11'3" - 270 x 345 )

Hand-knotted in wool and silk, this 10x14 modern rug by Rug & Kilim is a new addition to the French Art Deco rug line. On the Design: For this particular rug, beige underscores cu...

An antique French needlepoint large oversized carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Spaced small stars fill the burgundy field while scrolli...

Antique Chinese Art Deco rug with rose color and 9' 0'' x 11' 4'' size.

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 6" - 275 x 350 )

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a brown field. This Chinese rug has a burgundy and green frame multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8'8" x 11'6" - 264 x 348 cm )

This hand-knotted wool Antique Chinese Art Deco rug features a floral design with black hues on a brown background and a navy blue frame. This rug measures 8' x 9'7".  

Made with hand-knotted wool, this 4x5 contemporary rug exemplifies the refined minimalist aesthetic that characterized Shanghai's premier workshops during the early 20th century. O...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' x 8'10" - 185 x 270 )

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese rug, with a burgundy field, green frame in an allover classic Chinese floral design.China This rug measures 8' 9" x 14' 3", circa 1920.

Hand-knotted in wool, an antique 9x12 Chinese Art Deco rug joining Rug & Kilim’s repertoire of coveted 1920s masterpieces. This interpretation of the classic style enjoys a brilliant...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 9x12 rug by Rug & Kilim is a new addition to their Chinese Art Deco rug line. On the Design: Admirers of the craft will appreciate a subtle refinement ...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Dragon Carpet ( 5'7" x 8'7" - 170 x 262 )

In stirring tones of blue and cream, this organic Art Deco-inspired pure wool Persian carpet depicting cypress leaves measures 8' x 10'. "Cypress Leaves" provides a bold statement wi...

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

Rare oval-shaped Green Chinese Art Deco rug. Measures: 3' x 4'11'' Chinese Art Deco rugs are known for their striking mix of asymmetrical ...

From Rug & Kilim’s modern selections, a 6’ circle rug relishing a contemporary take on rare French Deco inspiration. The iconic vision enjoys a multitude of colors coming togethe...

Hand knotted in wool, a 10x14 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts an eccentric open field from ...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 5' 2" x 7' 6", features a refined composition with a soft golden-brown field that highlights a beautifully stylized floral and b...

French Art Deco Rug Size: 4'10" × 6'6" (147 × 198 cm) A French Art Deco vintage wool carpet woven in different tones of brown over a beige background. This Art Deco rug embodies the ...

An exotic color room size Chinese Art Deco Rug from the 1930s. Measures: 8'10" x 11'6''

Hand-knotted in wool and originating from China circa 1920-1930, this 8x10 antique Chinese Art Deco rug is a rare collectible from the 1920s Chinoiserie style period pieces, and one ...

A Vintage Belgian Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th century. Measures: 11' 2" x 14' 6"

A pagoda, arched bridge and gazebo float in on medium blue watery clouds from one side of the light green field while a gnarled flowering prunus (plum) branch snakes in from one corn...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 9' 3" x 12' 7", features a striking, minimalist landscape design with a bold, modernist aesthetic. The composition is dominated ...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 9x12 modern rug by Rug & Kilim is a new addition to their French Art Deco rug line. Its design enjoys a gray open field with the most subtle hint of lavend...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 5x9 modern rug is from the French Art Deco rug collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: These photos represent a recently sold 5x9 French Art Deco rug...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 3x3 rug by Rug & Kilim is a new addition to their Chinese Art Deco rug line. On the Design: Admirers of the craft will appreciat...

Made with hand-knotted wool in France, this vintage 6x8 French Art Deco rug is an extremely collectible piece from Leleu Decorateur—the work of an iconic family label known for their...

Vintage Cotton Dhurrie Kilim Art Deco rug with a blue field and orange and grey accents with an all-over geometric design. This rug measures 11' 9" x...

This vintage Art Deco rug was handmade in Turkey, circa mid-20th century. It is in the style of Zeki Muren, a multidisciplinary Turkish artist, known for his bold, geometric, and whi...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 4x6 Modern Classics rug by Rug & Kilim is from a rare set of triplets in this design, inspired by antique Chinese Art Deco rugs and similar Chinoiserie des...

Art Deco Chinese Lantern Rug from the 1920's. Deep wine hand knotted ground with Deco Chinese motifs in each corner. Lush hand feels like wool/silk blend. 1920's China. Measures 56" ...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" - 275 x 350 )

A flower basket is suspended into the red field by a thin cord from a rosette and stem upper design, while a more elaborate floral display below includes banded scholars’ rocks and s...

Beautiful antique Art Deco Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a blue field. This Chinese rug has a red frame, multi-color accents in a gorgeous all-over Chinese floral design. Th...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9 x 14'2" - 275 x 430 )

Hand-knotted in wool, this 3x5 vintage ode to Chinese art deco rugs of the 1920s features flowers flourishing in variegated tones of pastel pink, royal blue & off white in diagonal c...

Hand knotted in wool and silk, this contemporary 9x12 rug draws inspiration from Austrian Art Deco rug styles and nods to the Vienna Secession movement in the creation of this affect...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 4x6 rug by Rug & Kilim is a new addition to their Chinese Art Deco rug line. On the Design: Admirers of the craft will appreciate a subtle refinement i...

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 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...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 3x3 rug represents the Chinese Art Deco rug collection by Rug & Kilim—inspired from the 1920s Chinoiserie style period pieces of the most elegant sensibili...

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...

Viennese Inspired Blue Hand-Knotted Wool Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 10'1" × 11'10" (307 × 360 cm) Age: New Color: Blue, Orange, Yellow Construction: Knotted Material: Wool Style:...

Experience the luxurious Serenity Indigo 8 X 10, a unique colorway with a calming, handcrafted line motif made from the finest wool. This elegant and versatile rug rendered in shades...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6'2" x 8'9" - 188 x 267 )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 9".

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...

4' x 6'7. A wonderful example of a Chinese Art Deco style rug woven circa 1920 with a plain navy ground encircled by flowers and stars in a variety of soft and gentle colors.

Hand-knotted in wool and silk, this 8x8 modern rug by Rug & Kilim is a new addition to the French Art Deco rug line. On the Design: This square rug is inspired by the more minimal...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet by Nichols Workshop 8'9" x 11' 6" - 295 x 350

Vintage Art Deco Camel, beige, brown handwoven wool rug Size: 13'5" x 13'5" (408 × 408 cm) An early 20th century European Art Deco rug, the camel field with polychrome curving branch...

This mid-20th century Chinese Art Deco rug, measuring 9' 0" x 11' 9", features a refined and elegant floral design characteristic of the period’s aesthetic. The soft beige field is d...