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Item Ships From: New York
cc-tapis Lunar Addiction Square Ocher Rug by Studiopepe
By Studiopepe, cc-tapis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hand knotted in the cc-tapis atelier in Kathmandu, Nepal. The rug is made with a cotton weave, a Himalayan wool and linen, coming from the areas surrounding the atelier. 89.000 indiv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Linen, Wool
Modern Moroccan Room Size Area Rug
Located in New York, NY
A modern Moroccan room size area rug from the 21st century.
Measures: 8' 7" x 12' 6"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Turkish Flat-Weave Kilim Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Turkish flat-weave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 6' 8" x 8' 3".
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Mid-Century Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Tribal Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Bakhtiari Pictorial Square Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Pictorial accent rug in square format handmade by the Bakhtiari nomadic tribe during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of an androgynous figure...
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Tribal New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Galerie Shabab Collection Mid-20th Century Swedish Flatweave Kilim Room Size Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Swedish Scandinavian flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the Mid-20th Century.
Measures: 9' 1" x 11' 7".
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Silk Area Rug
Located in New York, NY
A Classic antique Persian silk on wool rug woven in city of Kashan. KPSI 400.
Category
20th Century Persian Early Victorian New York - More Carpets
Materials
Cotton, Silk
Earth Color Turkish Deco Rug
Located in New York, NY
Intermediate size one of a kind midcentury Turkish Deco rug with earth accents in khaki, denim blue, and brown,
circa mid-20th century/ measures: 5'7” x 8'9”.
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Mid-Century Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Tabriz Art Deco Style Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Tabriz throw rug, with an Art Deco style geometric pattern, handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 3' 6" x 5' 8"
Persian rugs & carpets:
Persia (Iran) is a moderately large country with a very long history and an enormous art/craft/industry built around the handmade carpet. Until the discovery of oil, carpets were the largest Persian export. The craft goes back to ancient times, although the history is more broken than one might expect or desire. The Pazyryk rug...
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Art Deco New York - More Carpets
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Wool
Tribal Mid-20th Century Handmade Central Asian Turkoman Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Central Asian tribal Turkoman room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 9' 10" x 12' 4".
Category
Mid-20th Century Central Asian Tribal New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Persian Heriz Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
An antique Persian Heriz room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century.
Measures: 8' 2" x 11' 2".
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Rustic New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Zabihi Collection Beautiful Mini Antique Persian Senneh Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century Persian Senneh rug featuring a Gol- Farang design, dominant accents in sky blue and chartreuse.
Measures: 2'1'' x 3'2''.
Category
20th Century Persian Arts and Crafts New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Rug & Kilim’s French Style Art Deco Rug In Brown With Geometric Patterns
By Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hand-knotted in wool and all-natural silk, this 5×9 rug is a new addition to the Art Deco rug collection by Rug & Kilim.
Further on the Design:
Connoisseurs may further appreciate ...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool, Silk, Yarn
16th Century Antique Flemish Tapestry. 10 ft 2 in x10 ft 9in
Located in New York, NY
16th Century Antique Flemish Silk And Wool Tapestry, Country Of Origin: Belgium, Circa Date: 16th Century. Size: 10 ft 2 in x 10 ft 9 in (3.1 m x 3.28 m)
Category
16th Century Belgian Renaissance Antique New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool, Silk
Antique Turkish Karapinar Runner
Located in New York, NY
Stunning early 20th century Turkish Karapinar runner with rich colors.
Antique Turkish Karapinar rugs are very rare and are among the more intriguing examples, boasting a very distinct set of design preferences that makes them reminiscent of Caucasian rugs and carpets. In the Turkish language, the term “Karapinar” means “black spring.” While this might suggest a style that is characterized by dark colors and themes, antique Karapinar rugs and carpets are generally characterized by bright and bold colors.
They were woven in southern Anatolia, an area in Turkey with a rich and vibrant history in the arts – especially the weaving arts...
Category
Early 20th Century Turkish Kazak New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Doris Leslie Blau Mid-20th Century Green Swedish Flat-Woven Rug
Located in New York, NY
Mid-20th century Green Swedish flat-woven rug
Size: 6'7" × 11'4" (200 × 345 cm)
A striking example of mid-century Scandinavian textile design, this vintage Swedish flat weave rug com...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid 19th Century NW Persian Galley Carpet ( 7'8" x 22'10" - 234 x 696 )
Located in New York, NY
Mid 19th Century NW Persian Galley Carpet ( 7'8" x 22'10" - 234 x 696 )
Handmade antique NW Persian carpet. Woven circa 1820 (early 19th century). Persian i...
Category
Mid-19th Century Persian Antique New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese Art Deco room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 7".
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Art Deco New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
cc-tapis Lunar Addiction Square Green Rug by Studiopepe
By Studiopepe, cc-tapis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hand knotted in the cc-tapis atelier in Kathmandu, Nepal. The rug is made with a cotton weave, a Himalayan wool and linen, coming from the areas surrounding the atelier. 89.000 indiv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool, Linen
Contemporary Handmade Turkish Flatweave Kilim Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A modern Turkish flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century.
Measures: 11' 2" x 14' 2".
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Antique Persian Qashqai Rug
Located in New York, NY
An antique Persian Qashqai rug from the early 20th century.
Measures: 4' 1" x 6' 7"
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Tribal New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Beige Cream Black Contemporary Handmade Turkish Flatweave Kilim Accent Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A contemporary Turkish flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the 21st century in shades of beige and cream with some tribal devices in black. This patchwork style rug consists o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Hemp
Contemporary Turkish Flat-Weave Kilim Large Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A modern Turkish flat-weave Kilim large room size carpet handmade during the 21st century.
Measures: 13' 2" x 16' 6"
Flat-weave rugs & carpets:
Knotted pile rugs are just one small part of a vast universe of textile techniques suitable for heavy use. If you can imagine it, some weaver has tried it out. Pieces can be roughly divided into those reversible from the start and those never, or at least not initially, reversible. Thus, kilims are considered reversible, while everything else is not.
Kilims are tapestry woven rugs with both sides the same, in either slit technique where colors change, or with various methods of avoiding slits. Slit tapestry weave goes back to ancient times and Coptic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Chinese Pictorial Dragon Room Size Carpet in Green & Ruby Red
Located in New York, NY
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".
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Art Deco New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
cc-tapis Yeti Rug
By cc-tapis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Born in France. Designed in Milan. Produced in Nepal.
cc-tapis is an Italian company which produces contemporary hand-knotted rugs which are created in Nepal by expert Tibetan artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool, Silk
Exuberant Palmleaf-Patterned Hand-Loomed Wool Rug, Stephanie Odegard Collection
By Stephanie Odegard Collection
Located in New York, NY
An exuberant palmleaf-patterned hand-loomed wool rug by Stephanie Odedgard Collection, in muted shades of sapphire and bone against an emerald background. With a pattern evoking jun...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Modern Area Rug by Ege Rya
By Ege Rya
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wild shag rug with vibrant orange hues and 1960s abstract pattern. Unique mid-century modern style area rug adds bright color and vintage modern style to any interior.
(Please confi...
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage New York - More Carpets
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Fabric
Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Shiraz Pictorial Lion Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Shiraz accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a pictorial design of a large yellow lion over a ruby red field decorated by several randomized animal f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Tribal New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Chinese Art Deco Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
An antique Chinese Art Deco accent rug handmade during the early 20th century.
Measures: 6' 1" x 8' 5".
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Tabriz Square Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Tabriz throw rug in square format handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 2' 1" x 2' 7".
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
cc-tapis Slinkie Runner Rug by Patricia Urquiola
By cc-tapis, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hand knotted in the cc-tapis atelier in Kathmandu, Nepal. The rug is made with a cotton weave, Himalayan wool and pure silk coming from the areas surrounding the atelier. 152.000 ind...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Silk, Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Pictorial Bakhtiari Accent Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian pictorial Bakhtiari gallery rug handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 4' 11" x 8' 4".
Category
Mid-20th Century Tribal New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Malayer Runner
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Malayer rug in runner format handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 1' 10" x 7' 9"
Persian rugs & carpets:
Persia (Iran) is a moderately large count...
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool, Cotton
Early 20th Century Handmade Persian Mahal Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
An antique Persian Mahal room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century.
Measures: 8' 0" x 11' 5".
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Rustic New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Contemporary Handmade Turkish Patchwork Style Flatweave Kilim Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A modern Turkish patchwork-style flatweave Kilim room size carpet handmade during the 21st century using remnants of Turkish flatweaves from the mid-20th century period.
Measures:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Doris Leslie Blau Vintage Reversible Geometric Yellow Swedish Rug
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Reversible Geometric Yellow Swedish Rug
Size: 5'3" × 7'10" (160 × 238 cm)
This vintage Swedish flat-weave rug is a striking example of mid-century Scandinavian design, charac...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Persian Heriz Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
An antique Persian Heriz room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century.
Measures: 7' 7" x 11' 3".
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Rustic New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Moroccan Rug
Located in New York, NY
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Tribal Pictorial Scenic Accent Rug, circa 1930
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian pictorial accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century by the nomadic Afshar tribes of southeast Persia. The weaver must have been inspired by her tribal scenery...
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Tribal New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Persian Senneh Pictorial Accent Rug of Cats
Located in New York, NY
An antique Persian Senneh accent rug handmade during the early 20th century with 9 panels decorated by 2 individual design of cats.
Measures: 4' 6" x 6' 3".
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Rustic New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Chinese Peking Long Gallery Carpet in Cream & Blue
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Persian Sarouk Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
An antique Persian Sarouk room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century.
Measures: 9' 0" x 11' 9".
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Tabriz New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Rustic Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Karajeh Small Runner
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Karajeh rug in small runner format with a rustic appeal handmade during the early 20th century.
Measures: 1' 11" x 5' 7"
Persian Rugs & Carpets:
Persia (Iran...
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Mid-20th Century Persian Tribal New York - More Carpets
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Wool
Rug & Kilim's Mid-Century Modern Style Square Rug in Blue Geometric Pattern
By Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
Hand-knotted in wool and all-natural silk, this 6×6 square rug is a new addition to the Mid-Century Modern rug collection by Rug & Kilim. This collection ...
Category
2010s Indian Mid-Century Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool, Yarn, Silk
Fordite A Rock Shaped Rug by Patricia Urquiola for cc-tapis
By Patricia Urquiola, cc-tapis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Showroom sample available for immediate pick up in Brooklyn
Hand knotted in the cc-tapis atelier in Kathmandu, Nepal. The rug is made with a cotton weave and a Himalayan wool, pur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Cotton
Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Moud Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Moud room size carpet handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 9' 9" x 12' 8".
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Tabriz New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Antique Turkish Sivas Rug
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century Turkish Sivas. Sivas is a city in North Central Turkey, which is a major production site of Turkish rugs based on Persian designs. Often finely woven, Sivas rug...
Category
20th Century Turkish Rustic New York - More Carpets
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Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Turkish Anatolian Runner
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Turkish Anatolian runner handmade during the mid-20th century.
Measures: 3' 1" x 10' 9".
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Tribal New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Late 19th Century Tunisian Gafsa Carpet ( 5'9" x 7'5" - 175 x 226 )
Located in New York, NY
Late 19th Century Tunisian Gafsa Carpet ( 5'9" x 7'5" - 175 x 226 )
Category
1890s Tunisian Antique New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
19th Century N.W. Persian Carpet ( 3'10" x 5'10" - 117 x 178 )
Located in New York, NY
19th Century N.W. Persian Carpet ( 3'10" x 5'10" - 117 x 178 )
Handmade antique NW Persian carpet. Woven circa 1880 (late 19th century). Persian informal rug, size: 3'10" x 5'10". Li...
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Late 19th Century Persian Antique New York - More Carpets
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Wool
Colorful Mid-20th Century Handmade Persian Pictorial Tabriz Square Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Persian Tabriz throw rug in square format handmade during the mid-20th century with a colorful pictorial design.
Measures: 3' 1" x 3' 6".
Category
Mid-20th Century Persian Bohemian New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Turkish Flatweave 6' x 9' Accent Rug in Straw and Grey
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Turkish Flatweave Kilim accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a flannel design in pale straw yellow and light grey.
Measures: 5' 7" x 9' 3"
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Mid-Century Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Antique Verdure Tapestry 5'8'' x 8'5''
Located in New York, NY
A verdure with dominant tree in full summer leaf to the right, with earth-tone palette.
A thatched and half-timbered water mill recedes into the atmospheric middle distance, with ad...
Category
1820s French Antique New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool, Silk
Mid-20th Century Handmade Chinese Pictorial Accent Rug of Horses
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Chinese pictorial accent rug handmade during the mid-20th century of horses prancing in a field over a dark midnight blue background.
Measures: 4' 0" x 6' 6".
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Modern New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Persian Pictorial Tabriz Large Room Size Carpet
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Persian Victorian New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Mid-20th Century Handmade Indian Lahore Room Size Rug In Maroon and Green
Located in New York, NY
A vintage Indian Lahore room size rug handmade during the mid-20th century with a large scale pattern over a maroon field and enclosed by a wide green border.
Measures: 7' 11" x 9' 8"
Category
Mid-20th Century Indian Arts and Crafts New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Rare Long And Narrow Antique Geek Embroidered Textile 2'2" x 9'7"
Located in New York, NY
A Rare Long And Narrow Antique Geek Embroidered Textile, Circa: 19th Century, Origin: Anafi, Cyclades- Greece
Category
20th Century Greek Classical Greek New York - More Carpets
Materials
Wool
Early 20th Century Handmade Chinese Ningxia Square Throw Rug
Located in New York, NY
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...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Art Deco New York - More Carpets
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Wool
Antique Persian Bakshaish Rug. 12 ft 8 in x 14 ft 8 in
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Antique Persian Bakshaish Rug, Country of Origin / rug type: Persian rug, Circa date: 1880. Size: 12 ft 8 in x 14 ft 8 in (3.86 m x 4.47 m)
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19th Century Persian Bakshaish Antique New York - More Carpets
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Wool