Fabric Chinese and East Asian Rugs

77586, antique Chinese Baotou Scholar’s rug with Confucian Pictorial Design. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Baotou rug features a pi...

This is an antique Tibetan horse cover woven during the last quarter of the 19th century circa 1880 - 1900 and measures 107 x 70CM in size. Its field is designed with a single large-scale Lotus flower with protruding vines set on a black background color which creates color contrast against the pastel motifs. the border is designed with different flower motifs surrounded by multicolored geometric designs. This unique piece has been retained in excellent condition making it a true collector item that would fit in any tribal or Asian collection.

Late 18th Century Chinese Ningxia Kang Carpet ( 6' x 10'3" - 175 x 415 ) Ningxia or Suiyuan, North Central China K’ang Carpet Structural Analysis Warp: cotton, off-white, natural, handspun, Z-4-S; Weft: cotton, off white, natural, winder plied, Z-3-S. handspun, two shoots alternating; Pile: wool, Z-3 or Z-4; Knot: PL,no alternate warp depression, 5 ½ per horizontal inch x 5 per vertical inch = 27 ½ per square inch; Sides: recovered; Ends: n.o. Weft/knots: 50/50, even. Peach border, medallion and corners corroded; sapphire blue highest. Remarks. The golden yellow field employs the classic “grains of rice” pattern with brown pips, centered by a broadly drawn peach scalloped peony medallion and en-suite corners. The matching peach tone border has inward facing peonies in one, two or three colors with short arabesque segments between. There is no corner resolution with diagonal palmettes. The inner medium dark blue border is pearled and the outermost stripe is plain as is characteristic of rugs of the period. The peony corners are bold and direct, without a plethora of intrusive minor elements. The central peony wreath is pared down as well to the most important motives. The contrast in scale between the rice grains, a size independent pattern and the vastly larger scale medallion and corners is particularly striking. The rice pattern...

A vintage Chinese Art Deco rug handmade during the mid-20th century predominantly in red, green, and antique white, and with accent colors in silver, beige, pink, blue, and orange , ...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet, Size: 10' 6"x 11' 6"

77408 Antique Chinese Peking Rug with Chinoiserie Style and Pagoda Design 08'03 x 09'07. This hand-knotted wool antique Chinese Peking rug features a large pictorial scene of a pagod...

Fine Qing Dynasty Chinese Altar weaving hand embroidered in silk. Intricate and complex weave depicting a celebration of Spring with a Royal Court Scene rendered in breathtaking deta...

Antique Chinese Peking rug. Size: 4'0" x 6'8".

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet, Size: ( 10'6" x 12'6" - 320 x 380 cm ) Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet, 10'6" x 12'6" An elegant early 20th century Chinese Peking...

Deep red field Chinese Deco Nichols rug. Bright colored floral design in two corners. One or two small discolorations (shown) but truly nice overall condit...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 7' 10'' x 9' 7'' - 239 x 292 cm)

Handwoven French design flat-weave, with wool pile and wool foundation. This piece features a floral bouquets, medallion and more tapestry-like designs. This piece is from new which ...

Today Mongolian carpets are highly appreciated for the geometric character of their design and for their neutral palette, which is often centred on an ivory/dark colour combination. ...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9'9" x 15' - 297 x 457 )

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'10'' - 275 x 360 )

Early 19th Century French Empire Aubusson Carpet ( 8' x 9'3" - 245 x 282 ) This c.1830 French carpet is the exception that proves the rule:it is brown, not green, the medallion is ro...

The most recognizable rugs from the 1920s and 1930s are Chinese Rugs made by Walter Nichols. These Nichols rugs, as they came to be known, were primarily made during the Art Deco mov...

Early 20th Century Chinese Silk Embroidery - 6'2" x 8'9"

Matching Pair of Chinese Nichols Oriental Wool Rug Runners circa 1980s A pair of Chinese Nichols Oriental rug runners feature a vibrant red field adorned with traditional floral and...

Early 20th Century Chinese Tibetan Carpet ( 3' x 5' - 90 x 152 )

78097 Rare Vintage Tibetan Rug, 10'00 x 13'07. A marvel of precision, depth, and quiet luxury, this hand-knotted wool and silk-accented vintage Tibetan rug is a rare fusion of geomet...

78285 Vintage Wool & Silk Chinese Tabriz rug with European Cottage Style 9'08 x 13'05. Ornate details and effortless beauty with romantic connotations, this hand knotted wool and sil...

Antique Chinese - Peking Rug Size: 9' 4''x11' 6''

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...

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...

77211 Vintage Chinese Peking Indian Rug, 05'11 x 08'11. This hand-knotted wool vintage Chinese Peking Indian Chinoiserie rug is a masterful representation of East Asian artistry with...

1980s Vintage Needlepoint Carpet ( 7'10'' x 9'6''- 240 x 290 )

Mid-18th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 13'6" x 13'10" - 411 x 422 )

Mid 19th Century W. Chinese Kansu Carpet ( 11'6" x 12' - 350 x 365 ) Mid-19th Century Western Chinese Kansu Carpet, Circa 1850 This exceptional Chinese Kansu carpet from the mid-19t...

Antique Chinese - Ningxia rug, size: 6' 8'' x7' 4''.

51403 Blue and beige vintage Turkish Oushak rug with Chinoiserie style. Embodying European sensibility with an artful balance between warm and inviting, this hand-knotted vintage Tur...

Beneath the tasseled lambrequin, the scaly, five claw dragon rises trailing coiled clouds on the dark blue ground above a five-point “mountain” within frothing surf. Below is a rainb...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11' 8" - 275 x 356 cm )

78174 Distressed Antique Chinese Peking rug, 08'08 x 11'00. Effortless beauty and understated elegance, this hand-knotted wool distressed antique Peking rug beautifully embodies rust...

Vintage 1980s Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9'6'' x 12'4'' - 290 x 375 )

The beige open field is centred by a miniature landscape roundel featuring a leafy tree growing from banded rocks. The border is similarly plain except for identical branch and f...

77535 vintage Turkish Harker rug with Romantic Georgian Baroque style. With its intrinsic beauty and symmetrical composition, this hand knotted wool vintage Turkish Harker rug astoun...

The clear red field displays numerous Chinese vases and related objects with elaborate, colorful flowers, within a steel blue border of realistic lotuses. The pattern is asymmetric a...

Contemporary Chinese Art Deco Style Carpet ( 8'10" X 11'8" )

From Rug & Kilim’s European collection, an 8x10 Tudor style flatweave with medallions & pictorial patterns in regal black, gold & off white. Handwoven in wool, a fine weave with coar...

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...

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet 9' 3" x 12'

Early 20th Century Chinese Peking Carpet ( 9' x 11'9" - 275 x 360 cm) Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Circa 1920 – 9' x 11'9" An elegant antique Chinese Peking rug, hand-knotted in woo...

Antique Chinese Peking Rug, Size: 8'0"x 9'8"

A superb example of Art Deco weaving originating from China for the Western market. Finely knotted with silky wool with a floppy yet sturdy handle, a characteristic of the Fette-Li c...

A terrestrial/aquatic dragon rises from stylized waves while a celestial dragon descends from fungus whorl clouds with two flaming pearls in the plain areas of this black on black Ar...

1920s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 9' x 11'6" x 274 x 351 )

Antique Chinese silk rug, size: 8'2" x 9'4".

Mid-18th W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet Main Hall Carpet 11’9” x 12’ Mid 18th Century Structural Analysis: Warp:cotton,off-white,natural,Z-4-S,somewhat irregular; Weft:cotton,off-white,Z-4-S,winder plied, quite irregular;2 shots alternating; wefts thick and soft; Pile:wool,Z-4; Knot: PL/0 degrees warp depression/horiz. 6 x vertical 5 = 30 knots per square inch; knots somewhat irregular, some quite thin; [check for T knots along edges] Sides: two cords each of two body warps, inner directly weft-attached; figure eight sparsely weft yarn wrapped; Weft/knot ratio: 60/40 wefts predominant. Remarks: This is another variant on the popular Mandarin nine lion dog carpet...

76698, New Persian Style Rug with Traditional Kirman Design. This opulent hand-knotted wool Persian Kirman style rug features an intricate centre medallion with a stylized floral mot...

19th Century W. Chinese Ningxia Carpet ( 10' x 11'4" - 305 x 345 )

:: Open field with diagonally opposing sprawling ornate foliage and long stemmed vines reciprocating each other. Super soft and blanket-like feel with plush pile. Colors and shades include: Pale dusty rose, ivory, beige, mint green, pistachio green, sand, sky blue, coffee brown, pale gold, and more. Condition notes: Like-new, original full pile height even across. Original side cord selvages intact. Fully secured sides and ends. Recently professionally cleaned ready for in-home use! Many years of enjoyment to come with this hand knotted Japanese Art...

A rare and beautiful early Chinese carpet characterized by an infinite repeat of parallel and offset rows of blue and ivory lotus blossoms, symbols of purity, on a two-tone yellow ba...

A wonderful early 20th century Chinese Art Deco rug with a dark indigo field surrounded by a wide dark cranberry and a thin indigo border. Myriad auspicious flowers including peonies...

Rug Number 31405 Size 4' 3" X 6' 10" Design Peking Collection Antique/Vintage Material Wool Texture Pile Weave Origin China Age Antique

Mid 19th Century Chinese Ningxia Carpet with Foo Dogs 石獅 ( 12' 6" x 18' 2" - 380 x 555)

71754, antique Chinese oval accent rug with Pictorial Phoenix design. This hand knotted wool antique Chinese oval rug features a pictorial oval medallio...

19th Century W. Persian Bijar Carpet , Size: 11'3" x 18'

Modern Tibetan “Tiger” Wool Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 2'0" × 3'0" (60 × 91 cm) Color: Black, Brown A masterclass in modern minimalism inspired by the wild, this Modern Tiger Rug...

1930s Chinese Art Deco Carpet ( 10' x 16' - 305 x 490 cm )