New York City - Chinese and East Asian Rugs

This contemporary 9x11 rug is a new addition to the Rug & Kilim’s European collection. Inspired by 18th-century Aubusson rugs, this rug has a more subdued take on this regal transiti...

A East Turkestan Modern room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 4" x 11' 9"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan small room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 3" x 10' 0"

An enticing 8x10 ode to celebrated Persian Sultanabad rug styles, from Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Collection. Hand knotted in wool from Josh’s favorite workshop of its tief, the p...

An 8x10 rug inspired from antique Persian Serapi rug styles, from Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics Collection. Hand-knotted in wool, sporting an exceptional blue medallion style with pu...

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 3" x 12' 0"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 0" x 13' 7"

Handwoven in wool, a 12x14 ode to Tudor flat weaves from Rug & Kilim’s European collection. One of the earliest pieces in this collection, this collectible carries a subtle high-low ...

A rare 6 foot square an early 20th century Chinese rug with a graphic Chinese Motif in slate and blue Measures: 6' x 6'1".

Vintage Art Nouveau Rug Silk Chinese Rug Art Deco Red 5' X 8' 155cm x 239cm Circa 1965 " High quality vintage piece that can be use...

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 8" x 11' 9"

Modern Tibetan red floral handmade wool rug by Doris Leslie Blau. Size: 8'0" × 9'9" (243 × 297 cm). Exclusively available at Doris Leslie Blau, where tradition meets design excellenc...

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk & Metallic Threads Carpet with Inscription " For Use In The Royal Aurora Hall " 4'3" x 6'3" - 130 x 191

1920s Pair of Chinese Art Deco Carpets, size: 6'x 8' 6"

Late 19th century rare narrow size Khotan runner with faded weather textured appeal geometric design. Measures: 2'3" x 7'3".

Belonging to Rug & Kilim’s Modern Classics collection, an intricate Sultanabad style rug taking after neoclassical Persian sensibilities. The subtle floral medallion pattern plays beautifully with uniquely soft tones of beige & brown cocooned in light blue borders seldom seen in the Sultanabad lineage. Hand-knotted in all wool, a lavish 10x14 carpet...

Hand-hooked in wool originating from China circa 1910-1920, this 10×14 antique rug connotes a hooked design in a distinguished medallion pattern—enjoying brown and pink colors in goo...

A vintage Chinese carpet with a Khotan design from the second quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 8"

A 2nd quarter of the 20th-century Tibetan rug with a pheonix dragon motif on a brown field Size: 3' x 5'8''.

Chinese Peking scatter size Rug from the early 20th Century 2'2'' x 4'3''

Hand-knotted in wool, this 8x11 European rug in beige features Trellises with floral patterns within in green and red against beige tones, and gold and rust accents. On the Design:...

One-of-a-kind early 20th century Khotan rug with a soft pink field consisting of a yin yang pattern and a camel border. Measures: 5'4'' x 8'3''.

Early 20th century antique Khotan rug with a peach tone pomegranate motif on a light celadon green field Measures: 5'5'' x 10'3''.

Black ground with four matching right angle corners, each composed of a mini-landscape with a pagoda and pine trees in beige tones. Totally open centre with no borders. A very unusua...

Stunning large Chinese Art Deco rug with a beautiful floral design on a grey field and plum border. Most found in Room size formats in th...

The two pictorial dark blue discs in diagonally opposite corners show respectively a butterfly and a flowering stem, with small porcelain vases, a teapot and teacup nearby. A fan and a scroll add to the exotic character of this generously open, champagne beige field, borderless interwar Art Deco Tianjin carpet.

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 9"

Full plush pile Chinese Batou rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century featuring the wall of China Measure: 4'7'' x 6'

Vintage Chinese Deco Rug Size: 3'1" × 5'7" (93 × 170 cm) This charming vintage Chinese Deco rug from the early 20th century exemplifies the bold elegance and artistic flair of the Ar...

This 9x12 flatweave from the European rug collection by Rug & Kilim is a contemporary take on 18th century Aubusson rugs and tapestries. Handwoven in fine quality wool, this piece is...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'4" - 275 x 345 cm )

A vintage Chinese Art Deco accent carpet handmade during the mid-20th century. Measures: 6' 0" x 8' 9"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 1" x 12' 2"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 0" x 9' 8"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 2" x 12' 9"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 10' 0" x 12' 8"

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...

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 9' 2" x 12' 4"

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Measures: 3'2" x5'10".

Rare Room size Antique Khotan Rug from the 1st quarter of the 20th Century Measures: 10'10" x 13'7" Khotan rugs were produced in Eastern Turkestan. Khotan produced fine rugs in the...

This incredible display of natural indigo dyes on handspun Himalayan hand-knotted wool is a masterpiece by Joseph Carini. Incredibly soft silky Himalayan wool, that has to be felt to...

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 8" x 11' 7"

A modern East Turkestan Khotan room size carpet handmade during the 21st century. Measures: 8' 10" x 11' 7"

an early 20th century worn East Turkestan khotan rug with a pomegranate design 6'3'' x 13'

an early 20th century East Turkestan Khotan Pictorial rug Measures: 5'8'' x 8'8''.

Mid 19th Century Chinese Silk Embroidery ( 3' x 3'10" - 90 x 118 )

Vintage 1920s Chinese Art Deco Rug Doris Leslie Blau Size: 9'5" × 9'5" (287 × 287 cm) This striking 1920s Chinese Art Deco rug is a beautiful testament to early 20th-century Chinese ...

One World is a collaboration between Allan Tannenbaum's photography and Joseph Carini's carpet expertise. This result is show stopping carpet or wall hanging. The detail on this wool...

Handwoven in wool, a 7x8 celebration of18th century Aubusson tapestry weave style. Belonging to Rug & Kilim’s European rug collection, the field embraces an all over floral pattern t...

Large antique shabby chic Khotan rug with an all-over Pomegranate Design with faded red and brown hues on a gray ground Measures: 8'5" x 16'8" Khotan rugs were produced in East...

A Chinese peking carpet in midnight blue with a pictorial animal motif. Measures: 2'3'' x 4'.

Vintage Khotan “Samarkand” Rug — A Masterpiece of Geometric Harmony Size: 4'8" × 10'8" (142 × 325 cm). This exquisite vintage Khotan rug from the early 20th century is a striking exa...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Rug 5' 2" x 7' 10"

An early-20th-century scatter size Chinese rug in a faded watery blue color, accents in ivory and pink Measures: 3'2 x 4'9''.

Hand knotted in wool, an 11x16 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...

.Rare early 20th century Chinese square rug feautring a large angry tiger in a scenic background , colors primarily in dark brown and ivory 7'3'' x 8'1''

An early 20th century Chinese run in the palest of blues Measures: 6'1'' x 9'.

2nd Quarter of the 20th century Tibetan Rug in feminine colors. The border consists soft brown, pink and white swastikas (? or ?) t religious and cultural "Peace" symbols, predominan...

Early 20th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Dragon Carpet ( 7'2" x 9' - 218 x 274 )