1900 Fine Antique Chinese Rug

Antique Chinese Rugs, as opposed to most of the antique rug productions, were woven almost exclusively for internal consumption. Since they were mostly sheltered from European and We...

Antique Karabagh rugs Eagerly sought after by collectors as well as designers, have one of the oldest and most varied design traditions of any antique Caucasian rugs. Many are descen...

Silk Rugs – Silk Carpets and area rugs are the most luxurious productions of their kind. The silk textile production began in China, although silk rugs are unattested there until the seventeenth century. Silk textile manufacture was well established in Persia by the Sassanian Period (third to seventh centuries). Consequently, it would have been possible for the Persians of this period or those of Early Islamic times to have adapted silk to rug production. But it is so far unclear whether China or the Islamic Orient initiated the manufacture of silk carpets. At any rate, the earliest extant of all the antique handmade silk rugs are in fact the handmade Persian silk rugs...

Antique Chinese Rugs, as opposed to most of the antique rug productions, were woven almost exclusively for internal consumption. Since they were mostly sheltered from European and We...

Antique Chinese Peking Dog Rug, 19th Century Happy dogs comprise the medallion and also cavort on either end of this very unusual rug. Additional Inform...

Handmade antique Caucasian Avar rug from Daghetsan. The rug is in unusual design, from the beginning of 20th century. -condition: good, -circa: 1900s, ...

This southern Russian kilim-tapestry technique carpet shows a golden-tan field with a three echelon pattern of outline cartouches and barbed leaf-forms detailed in sienna, cream and ...

The kilims known as ‘Bessarabian’ were woven in the Russian regions of Ukraine and Moldavia. Intended to satisfy the demands of the local aristocracy, who had developed a taste for c...