Art Deco Rugs and Carpets

Hand knotted in Turkey originating between 1960-1970, this vintage mid-century wool runner is the latest to join our midcentury Pasha collection, celebrating Turkish icon and multidi...

This 8x11 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 ...

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...

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

This 10x14 ode to Chinese 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 th...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 13'8" x 24' - 417 x 732 cm )

This vintage 4x7 rug is an exciting new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Mid-Century Pasha Collection. This line is a commemoration, with rare curations we believe ...

A vintage Chinese Pictorial rug handmade during the mid-20th century with 2 dragons in ruby red over a green open field. Measures: 8' 11" x 11' 6".

Rug & Kilim takes pride in collaborating with one of the best workshops in Iran for its distinguished future projects. Drawing inspiration from the connoted Seirafian pieces of 1950s...

Hand knotted in wool, an 8x10 Chinese art deco style rug inspired by rare period pieces of the 1920s Nichols style. On the Design: The design boasts a bold open field from this p...

An 8x10 Art Deco rug inspired from Austrian Secession styles, joining the European Collection by Rug & Kilim. Hand knotted in wool and silk, enjoying rich beige-brown and black hues ...

Hand knotted in lustrous silk, this floral rug marks an addition to the European Collection by Rug & Kilim, a design of Spanish rug influence affectionately dubbed “Toledo” per the i...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 6x9 modern rug represents the French Art Deco rug collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: This particular piece is inspired by Cubist Art Deco style r...

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

Hand-knotted in wool, this 9x12 custom rug design from Rug & Kilim’s French Art Deco rug collection features geometric patterns in the style of a Leleu aesthetic period piece of the ...

Chinese Deco Rug Doris Leslie Blau Size: 12'0" × 13'5" (365 × 408 cm) Circa: 1940 Age: Vintage Origin: China Style: Art Deco This exquisite rug is part of the diversified Doris Lesli...

A bold marriage of Art Deco style and innovative texture, Rug & Kilim unveils this contemporary flat weave technique. The 5x8 Kilim rug features overlappin...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' 11'' x 11' 7" - 272 x 353 cm )

Hand-knotted in luscious wool, an 8x10 Art Deco rug inspired by Chinese sensibilities of the 1920s. On the Design: Deep and bright tones of blue m...

This 8x12 ode to Swedish 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 Dec...

Hand-knotted in wool, a 3x5 vintage rug from our Antique & Vintage collection exemplifying the Chinese Deco sensibilities inspired by the 1920s. The ...

An elegant Art Deco style circle rug from the Rug & Kilim award-winning Scandinavian Kilim Collection. This particular 8’ piece exemplifies the textural sensibility of the line as it...

1920s Chinese Art Debackground measuring 9' x 11'9" Green background with yellow border.

1930s Square Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 11'8" x 12' - 355 x 365 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 6' X 8'6" - 183 x 260 cm )

This square 9x9 rug is a bold new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Homage Collection. Hand-knotted in wool and cotton, this particular rug recaptures fabulous Art Deco aesthetics in a Rusti...

Originating from Persia between 1900-1910, this antique traditional Persian rug is hand knotted in naturally iridescent silk to complement an extremely fine all-over field design. Th...

1920s Round Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 3' x 3' - 92 x 92 cm )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 cm ) with a fuchsia color background

A vintage Turkish Art Deco style runner handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures:

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...

This vintage 6x9 Art Deco rug, hand-knotted in wool, circa 1960-1970, is a new addition to Rug & Kilim Collection. This line is a commemoration, wit...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Oval Carpet ( 4' x 6'10" - 122 x 208 )

Hand-knotted in wool, this 9x12 custom rug design is from the French Art Deco rug collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: These photos represent a recently sold 9x12 Art Deco ru...

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

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'6" x 13'2" - 290 x 402 )

Originating from one of our most respected custom looms in Nepal, this hand knotted Art Deco rug is the latest edition of the Aerial Scape pattern from the Custom Collection by Rug &...

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Runner Carpet ( 3' x 11' - 90 x 335 )

This 8x10 ode to Chinese Art Deco rugs is the next addition to Rug & Kilim's inspired new Deco Collection. Further On the Design: The piece enjoys an emphasis on a warm pink b...

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

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 8' x 10'2" - 245 x 310 )

A vintage Persian Kashan rug with an Art Deco design from the mid-20th century.

Mid 20th Century French Art Moderne Savonnerie Carpet( 7' 9" R - 236 R ) Wool pile in symmetric (Turkish) knots, in a moderate weave, on a cotton and jute foundation. The transition ...

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

This 10x14 ode to Chinese Art Deco rugs is the next grand addition to Rug & Kilim’s new Deco Collection. Hand-knotted in wool. Further on the Design: This piece boasts the minimalis...

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

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

French Art Deco Savonnerie carpet, France, circa 1920.       

Hand knotted in a quality wool, this addition to the European rug collection by Rug & Kilim draws influence from the 18th century Tudor rug style, an exempla...

Made in hand knotted wool from the custom Classic Burano Collection by Rug & Kilim, this 2 × 3 this 2 × 3 rug is available as a gift-sized rug for both flooring and wall-hanging proj...

Hand-knotted in wool, an elegant 3x6 vintage piece from Rug & Kilim’s Antique & Vintage collection, inspired by Chinese Art Deco rugs of the 1920s. The classic imagination entails de...

Hand knotted on a luscious 9 x 12 scale from China circa 1950-1960, this vintage Art Deco rug hails from Rug & Kilim’s coveted Antique & Vintage Collection. R...

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

An abstract, borderless dynamic pattern of asymmetrically placed boomerang, wavy lines, odd shapes and painterly drawn forms, filled in with pale blue, crea...

Beautiful Edouard Benedictus French Art Deco Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: French Art Deco, Circa Date: 1930’s – Size: 10 ft 10 in x 13 ft 2 in (3.3 m x 4.01 m)

This 9x12 ode to Chinese Art Deco rugs is the next addition to Rug & Kilim's inspired new Deco Collection. Further On the Design: The piece enjoys an emphasis on forest green ...

A vintage Persian Malayer area rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a solid navy blue colored field and an intricate Art Deco style arabesque border. The design is very vers...