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This Persian tribal hand-knotted rug is crafted with the finest hand-carded, hand-spun wool, and is made with all natural dyes. It resembles the antique original pieces designed by t...

This Persian tribal hand-knotted rug is crafted with the finest hand-carded, hand-spun wool, and is made with all natural dyes by local Kurdish artisan weavers in Iran. Custom sizes ...

This Persian tribal hand-knotted rug is crafted with the finest hand-carded, hand-spun wool, and is made with all natural dyes. It resembles the antique original pieces designed by t...

This Persian Tabriz hand-knotted rug is made from the finest hand-carded wool and is distinguished by its excellent weave, and by the remarkable adherence to the classical traditions...

This Persian tribal hand-knotted rug is hand-carded with the finest wool, and made with all natural dyes by the local Kurdish artisan weavers in Iran. Custom sizes and colors availab...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century. Measures: 11' 11" x 15' 0".

This Persian tribal hand-knotted runner rug is hand-carded with the finest wool, and made with all natural dyes by the local Kurdish artisan weaves in Iran. Custom sizes and colors a...

This Persian Tabriz hand-knotted rug is made from the finest hand-carded wool and distinguished by its excellent weave, and by the remarkable adherence to the classical traditions of...

Our Bakshaish "Stockholm" rug is part of Nasiri's decorative Patina collection. It is hand-knotted, and made from the finest hand-spun wool. This rep...

Made Iran with the highest quality Persian hand-spun wool and vegetable dyes, this rug resembles the antique original pieces crafted by the Kurdish weavers of the north-western area....

Beautiful large Indian vase Design Antique Amritsar rug, Country Of Origin / Rug Type: Antique Indian rug, circa Date: Late 19th century. Size: 14 ft 8 in x 17 ft 5 in (4.47 m x 5.31...

Made in Afghanistan with Persian hand-carded wool, this rug resembles our Mazandaran collection which highlights the Minimalist sophistication that existed long before the modern era...

An antique Indian Lahore carpet from the first quarter of the 20th century, 9’ x 12’ room size rug. Antique because of its age, yet it has a more modern design with earthy hues that ...

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

Our "Charlotte" rug is part of Nasiri's Decorative patina collection. It is a reproduction of the fine Central Asian Khotan carpets, which were once known as Samarkand. The renowned ...

This Persian tribal hand-knotted rug is hand-carded, hand-spun with the finest wool, and made with all natural dyes by the local Kurdish artisan weaves in Iran. Custom sizes and colo...

A vintage Persian flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a striped zebra print pattern. Measures: 5' 3" x 7' 11".

A contemporary Art Deco style Tibetan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 10" x 13' 0".

A vintage Persian Moud room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 9' 9" x 12' 8".

This Persian Shiraz modern rug is handwoven, and made from the finest hand-carded, hand-spun naturally dyed wool. Many of the rugs made in the villages surrounding the city of Shiraz...

An antique Caucasian Shirvan small accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 6' 7".

An antique Persian Sarouk accent rug handmade during the early 20th century with a floral design in the "American" style. This certain archetype of P...

A vintage Chinese Peking room size carpet handmade during the late 20th century in blue, mauve, and cream. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 9".

An antique Persian Mashad large room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with an intricate all-over pattern in a soft color palette of light blues, greys, and purples....

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 4' 7" x 7' 1".

A contemporary Turkish room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 7" x 11' 3".

An antique Caucasian Kazak throw rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 4".

A vintage Chinese Peking throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a cream border and light blue field. Measures: 2' 6" x 4' 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...

A vintage Persian flat-weave Kilim zebra print small room size accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century in the rustic style that works well with modern farmhouse interiors...

Antique Perisan Tabriz Hadji Jalili Oriental carpet, circa 1900, Room Sized An antique Persian Tabriz Hadji Jalili oriental carpet, circa 1900. Size: 12'5" x 9'0". This large size...

Antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920, room sized An antique Persian Tabriz oriental carpet, circa 1920. Size: 11'0" x 8'5". This large sized antique decorative rug...

Beautiful Large Antique Jewel Tone Persian Geometric Heriz Rug, Country of Origin: Persia, Circa date: 1920. Size: 10 ft 6 in x 15 ft 4 in (3.2 m x 4.67 m)

An antique Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 4" x 9' 8" Persian Rugs & Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large cou...

An antique Persian Malayer rug from the 1st quarter of the 20th Century 3'11'' x 6'10''.

A handmade Persian Gabbeh square scatter rug with a crimson red field boldly dating 1367, (circa 1950). This tribal rug hand knotted by the nomadic Qashqai group of Persia were decad...

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a large-scale geometric contemporary pattern in ruby red. Measures: 13' 6" x 16' 5" ...

An antique Persian Tabriz pictorial accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 6' 1" x 8' 3".

An antique Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 8' 9" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large cou...

A contemporary Turkish Oushak large oversize carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 12' 9" x 18' 9".

An antique Persian Tabriz room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with the classical "Vase" carpet design in red and blue. Measures: 9' 5" x 12' 1".

A vintage Persian Malayer throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 1" Persian rugs & carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a ve...

Beautiful Star Of David Design Luxurious Antique Persian Khorassan Rug, Country of Origin / Rug Type: Persian Rug, Circa Date: 1920. Size: 9 ft 8 in x 13 ft 7 in (2.95 m x 4.14 m).

Handwoven antique NW Persian carpet. Woven, circa 1900. Gallery/runner size: 4'0" x 10' . Ivory background with stacked medallion design. Rust red border.

An antique Persian Heriz runner handmade during the early 20th century.

An antique Persian camel hair accent rug handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 3' 9" x 6' 8".

A modern Persian Shiraz small throw rug handmade during the 21st century with a pictorial design of a male lion in yellow over a blue background. Measures: 3' 4" x 4' 8".

An antique Turkish Herekeh room size carpet handmade with silk during the early 20th century. Measures: 9' 7" x 13' 6".

A vintage Persian Bakhtiari tribal rug in gallery format handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design. Measures: 4' 4" x 12' 0".

Marvelous Antique Persian Isfahan Rug, Country Of Origin / Rug Type: Persian Rug, Circa date: 1920. Size: 4 ft 5 in x 7 ft (1.34m x 2.13 m).

A vintage Persian Mashad accent rug in the Art Deco style handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 4" x 6' 3" Persian Rugs & Carpets: Persia (Iran) is a moderately l...

A vintage Persian Tabriz room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century with a well-drawn floral design over a yellow goldenrod field and bordered in blush. Measures: 8' 6"...

A vintage Persian Shiraz rug in small runner format handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 2' 0" x 6' 0".

A modern Turkish Tulu large room size rug with a low shaggy pile handmade during the 21st century. The geometric "Mayan Pyramid" design of stepped arche...

A vintage Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 10' 8" x 14' 1".

A vintage Persian Mahal carpet from the mid-20th century in greyish brown.

A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century with a colorful pastel geometric large scale pattern resembling circus tents over a white-be...

Double-sided Kilim, Sweden, circa 2000. Size: 5 ft x 7 ft 8 in (1.52 m x 2.34 m) This pop art-esque double sided Swedish kilim owes it’s design to Scandinavian tradition. A hypnotic...

An antique Persian Mahal room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century. Measures: 8' 4" x 11' 8" Persia (Iran) is a moderately large county with a very long history a...

A vintage Turkish Anatolian Art Deco style runner handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 0" x 8' 5".

A vintage Turkish Anatolian throw rug handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 1" x 6' 8"