Rug Kilim’s Chinese Style Custom Runner in Blue with Gold Dragon Pictorial

Hand-knotted in wool, this 6x9 modern dragon rug is a bold addition to the Rug & Kilim exclusive pictorial rug line. On the Design: An exemplary drawing with pictorial represent...

Drawing inspiration from iconic 19th century Chinese Tibetan dragon rugs, we present an 8x10 vision from our Homage Collection embracing drago...

We offer you an Italian rug with an oriental taste, also perfect as a wall tapestry, which recalls in style and in the vivacity of the colors the Gucci 2016 / 2017 collection created...

Ningxia Pillar rug, XIX century. This special hand knotted carpet was wrapped around a pillar or a column of the buddhis temples or in the imperial palaces in China, Mongolia and Tibet ( in Tibet they were called Katum). This carpet surrounds the column creating a refined optical effect . This item brings in its decoration, a very important pattern of the imperial Chinese culture. Starting from the bottom, we can appreciate the proportion and the balance of the so called “Rainbow border”, consisting of parallel wavy stripes in a soft lovely combination of colors, radiating from the edge of the field. This kind of border was used only at the bottom of the rug in conjunction with the “sacred mountain” motif. The center of this pillar carpet is decorated with two opposite dragons linked by a bold “ruyi cloud” (in Chinese Ruyi means “as you wish”). The Ruyi cloud motif is used in earlier Chinese than are drifting clouds. The dragons represented in this pillar carpet, bring five claws, synonym of noble and monastic importance. The Chinese imperial carpets...