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An antique Heriz rug is a room-size carpet woven in the Heriz district of northwest Persia, prized for its bold geometric medallion, brick-red and blue palette, and famously durable construction. Woven mostly between 1875 and […]

An antique Kashan rug is a finely knotted carpet woven in the central Persian city of Kashan, most often between 1870 and 1930, recognized by its dense weave, lustrous kork wool, and elegant medallion-and-vinework designs

Antique Agra rugs are hand-knotted carpets woven in the city of Agra in northern India, the city of the Taj Mahal, from the Mughal era through the early 20th century. They are the aristocrats of

Almost every motif on an antique Chinese rug means something. Where Persian and Turkish weavers filled the field with allover pattern, the great Chinese workshops left open space and let a handful of symbols carry

Antique Oushak rugs come from the town of Usak and its surrounding villages in western Anatolia, Turkey, one of the oldest continuously working carpet centers in the world. They are prized for three things above

An antique kilim is a flatwoven rug, made without pile by tightly interweaving colored wefts through the warps, most often in the slit-weave tapestry technique. Kilims were woven by village and nomadic weavers across Anatolia,

An antique Oriental rug is any rug hand-knotted or hand-woven at least 80 to 100 years ago in the great weaving belt of Asia, a region stretching from Turkey through Persia and the Caucasus to

An antique Persian rug is a carpet hand-knotted in Persia, modern-day Iran, at least 80 to 100 years ago, woven from hand-spun wool (or silk) and colored with natural dyes. Persia is the historical heart

Peking, Ningxia, and Chinese Art Deco are the three families you will meet most often when shopping for an antique Chinese rug, and the right one for you comes down to era, palette, and the

The honest answer is that an antique Chinese rug is worth what its type, age, condition, size, and design quality together justify, and the range is wide. Two rugs that look similar at a glance

Among antique Chinese rugs, one name commands a premium all its own: Walter Nichols. Working from the Chinese port city of Tientsin in the 1920s and ’30s, this American weaver-designer did something no one had

Antique Chinese rugs stand apart from every other weaving tradition. Where Persian and Turkish carpets fill the field edge to edge, the great Chinese workshops did the opposite — they used open space, balance, and