Rug Kilim’s Chinese Style Tiger Runner in Beige and Blue Pictorial Patterns

Hand-knotted in fine wool, a 3x6 contemporary runner from our Modern Classics Collection. The design recaptures Oriental pictorial representations of dragons in a bold play of fiery...

This contemporary 3x5 tiger rug is a bold new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Tigers Collection. Our collection spans several cultures and recaptures iconic pictorial styles in folk art an...

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...

A beautiful antique Peking Chinese hand-knotted wool rug with a tan and navy blue field and orange accents throughout the traditional Chinese pictorial design. This rug measures 3'...