Rug Kilim’s Distressed Style Rug in Gold, Blue, Red Dragon Pictorial

This 10x14 rug from Rug Kilim’s Homage Collection recaptures the time-honored dragon rug in its glory and rare beauty. Hand-knotted in wool, our construction is an easy-to-maintain, comfortable wash with great value and approachable, livable presence. Further On the Design: This design recalls Chinese dragon rugs with the most regal, and graphic presence in antique pictorial rugs...

Hand-knotted in wool, this 9x12 modern dragon distressed rug, originating from India, is an exciting addition to the Rug & Kilim collection. On the Design: Connoisseurs may admire...

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...

Ashly Fine Rugs presents a 21st-century Turkish Oushak 10X13 Handmade Area Rug. Oushak Weavings began in a location just south of Istanbul, in a region that was to become the Rugs ...