New York City - Central Asian Rugs

Handwoven in wool, this 3x4 contemporary Kilim is from an exciting new custom-capable flatweave collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: “Rez Kilim” represents a contemporary hom...

Handwoven in wool, this 2x7 modern geometric kilim runner rug represents a new line of tribal carpets in the Modern Classics Collection by Rug & Kilim. Each piece represents the work...

Mid-20th Century Tribal Turkish Jajim kilim in dark colors Measures: 5'4” x 10'2” With the Jijim weaving technique, different colored threads are applied between the weft and w...

An early-20th-century scatter size Chinese rug in a faded watery blue color, accents in ivory and pink Measures: 3'2 x 4'9''.

Hand-knotted wool, this 5x7 contemporary rug draws inspiration from botanical designs—where a mix of blues with floral patterns creates the look of a pond or marsh at night On the D...

Handwoven in wool, this 4x5 contemporary Kilim is from an exciting new custom-capable flatweave collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: “Rez Kilim” represents a contemporary homa...

Made with a luxurious hand-knotted silk, this 4x5 contemporary rug is a bold addition to Rug Kilim’s Modern Classics Collection—a luxurious reimagining of historic designs, lik...

Superfine quality Biblical Persian pictorial rug depicting the story of Joseph where his brothers wholeheartedly tried to kill him.  

Antique Persian Heriz Oriental rug, Room size An antique Persian Heriz oriental rug, size 12'5" x 9'0", circa 1920. This handsome hand-woven geometric rug features a central medalli...

This custom rug design is a bold new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Tigers Collection. Our collection spans several cultures and recaptures iconic pictorial styles in folk art and handmad...

A rare room size Afghan Ersari rug in brown and gray. Usually found in 6 x 9 up to 8 x 10 size formats this one is a full room size piece. measures 8' x 12'

Chinese Nichols art deco scatter size rug from the 2nd quarter of the 20th century. Measures: 2'7'' x 4'11''

A vintage Khotan rug with an all-over panel design typically found in mid-20th century Persian Bakhtiar or Tabriz rugs. Beige, brown, charcoal tones Third quarter of the 20th cent...

Handwoven in wool, this 9×12 Kilim rug is from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: Fondly dubbed, “Rez Kilims”, this modern take on ...

Made with hand knotted wool in 3 x 5 size, this addition to the Modern Classics collection by Rug & Kilim draws inspiration from Classic Tibetan Tiger rugs of striking beauty and cul...

Handwoven in wool, this 7x10 contemporary Kilim is from an exciting new custom-capable flatweave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: “Rez Kilim” represents a contemporary...

Rug & Kilim presents a contemporary take on Moroccan style with this 9x11 hand-knotted piece of exceptional texture. The rug enjoys a comfortable high low appeal in forgiving beige b...

A printed one of a kind Israeli Needlepoint with a man smoking a cigar. 14'' x 20''

Pastel Geometry: Modern Textural Hand-Knotted Wool Rug by Doris Leslie Blau Size: 6'8" × 9'8" (203 × 294 cm). This contemporary wool rug from Afghanistan offers a serene, textural la...

This contemporary 4x8 rug is an exciting new addition to Rug & Kilim’s Tigers Collection. Our collection spans several cultures and recaptures iconic pictorial styles in folk art and...

A vintage Afghan Pictorial map rug from the mid-20th century. Measures: 3' 0" x 4' 10"

From Rug Kilim’s modern classic selections, a 4x10 hand-knotted runner relishing Moroccan tribal rug inspiration. The vision witnesses a marriage of rich brown gray tones...

Antique Beshir Turkmen rug. A highly collectible antique rug, attributed to the Ersari Turkmen tribes in Central Asia, in a more ornate style often refe...

Made with hand-knotted wool, this 4x5 rug is an exciting addition to Rug & Kilim’s Tiger Collection—a bold collection recapturing some of the most historic, iconic tiger pictorials a...

A 2nd quarter of the 20th century blue Tibetan Plush Pile Rug Measures: 5'4" x 7'3".

This contemporary Afghan rug is a masterful example of handwoven artistry, crafted with hand-spun wool and dyed using 100% natural vegetable pigments. Its minimalist design features ...

The open red-brown field presents three identical round medallions, with floral wreaths surrounding central square fretworks. Stepped fretwork corners. Black border with a paeony, le...

Hand knotted in wool, this 4x6 Baluch rug represents a new line of tribal carpets in the Modern Classics Collection by Rug & Kilim. Each piece represents the work of women weavers i...

A highly decorative afghan Ersari square size rug with a tribal all-over design from the 1st quarter of the 20th Century Measures: 5'1'' x 6'3''.

This contemporary 8x10 Kilim is a bold new addition to Rug Kilim’s modern flat weave designs. Handwoven in wool, this design favors a finely detailed play of textural stripes ...

Antique Jerusalem carpet. Size: 5'10" x 9'0".

This contemporary Afghan rug is handwoven with hand-spun wool and naturally dyed using vegetable pigments. Its neutral wool palette is elevated by subtle pops of color in small, geom...

Early 20th Century Blue Color Antique Khotan Gallery size rug Details rug no. j2674 size 6' 10" x 13' 2" (208 x 401 cm)

Vintage Persian Kashan Oriental carpet, in small size An extraordinary vintage Persian Kashan carpet, circa 1940, size 6.7" x 4.4". This is an exceptionally finely woven carpet, w...

Made with hand-knotted wool, this beautiful 10x14 rug is a captivating and new addition to Rug Kilim's Modern Collection. It showcases an intricate vertical stripe pattern that...

This 9x12 abstract rug is a bold new addition to Rug Kilim’s Modern rug collection. Hand-knotted in wool and silk, its design is a take on expressionist sensibilities in the mo...

Made with handwoven wool, this 2x6 Kilim represents an exciting new line of Modern Classics and contemporary flatweaves by Rug & Kilim—a series of designs inspired by antique Suzani ...

Introducing Bullseyes: The Icons, Carini Carpets' first limited-edition collection of round rugs. Renowned for innovative designs, Carini has long crafted variations of round accesso...

Handwoven in wool, this 4x5 contemporary Kilim is from an exciting new custom-capable flatweave collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: “Rez Kilim” represents a contemporary homa...

An early 20th century predominantly Khotan gallery rug. 6'4'' x 12'11''

Antique Turkmen Palas, Kilim rug. An impressive tribal flatweave rug from the Yomud Turkmen tribes.

Hand knotted in wool and luminous silk, this 8 x 10 addition to the European rug collection by Rug & Kilim depicts a masterful play of color and pattern affectionately dubbed “Berlin...

Made with handwoven wool circa 1950–1960, this striking 5x11 vintage runner Kilim is a particularly bold and sought-after work from Rug & Kilim’s collection of classic Kilims and Fla...

3rd quarter of the 20th century Turkish Rug derived from 19th Century Caucasian Snowflake Kuba Rugs Measures: 6'5" x 8'11"   

Made with handwoven wool in Turkey circa 1950-1960, this vintage 9x15 kilim with a minimalist geometric pattern is a particularly exciting, rare find in Rug Kilim’s collection ...

Handwoven in wool, this 14x20 oversized Kilim is from an exciting new custom-capable flatweave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: “Rez Kilim” represents a contemporary h...

Handwoven in wool, a 10x13 Kilim design from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: Fondly dubbed, “Rez Kilims”, this modern take o...

Handwoven in wool, a 10x12 Kilim design from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: Fondly dubbed, “Rez Kilims”, this modern take o...

Handwoven in wool, a 8x11 Kilim design from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: Fondly dubbed, “Rez Kilims”, this modern take on...

Handwoven in wool, a 9x12 Kilim design from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: Fondly dubbed, “Rez Kilims”, this modern take on...

Handwoven in wool, a 9x12 Kilim design from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: Fondly dubbed, “Rez Kilims”, this modern take on...

Handwoven in wool, a 8x11 Kilim design from an inventive new contemporary flat weave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: Fondly dubbed, “Rez Kilims”, this modern take on...

Handwoven in wool, this 8x10 Kilim is from an exciting new custom-capable flatweave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: “Rez Kilim'' represents a contemporary homage to...

An antique Mongolian room size carpet handmade during the early 20th century with a contemporary Art Deco style geometric pattern in neutral colors. Measures: 9' 2" x 11' 1" 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 (sleeping rugs) with simple chessboard allovers. Only a few large antique Tibetan carpets...

Handwoven in wool, this 4x5 contemporary Kilim is from an exciting new custom-capable flatweave collection by Rug & Kilim. On the Design: “Rez Kilim” represents a contemporary homa...

A rare 6 foot square an early 20th century Chinese rug with a graphic Chinese Motif in slate and blue Measures: 6' x 6'1".

Accent Size Inspired Vintage Turkish Oushak Carpet 4'2'' x 6'2''

An early 20th century Chinese Peking Dragon motif rug with a spacious open field design on an ivory ground Measures: 7'3'' x 9'7'' Chinese dragons are an important and powerful...

An early 20th century eclectic Khotan rug in predominant khaki and rusts. 6'4'' x 9'7'' Antique Khotan rugs and carpets were produced in Western China. Khotan or Hotan as some call...

Handwoven in wool, this 9x12 contemporary Kilim is from an exciting new custom-capable flatweave collection by Rug Kilim. On the Design: “Rez Kilim” represents a contemporary...