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Tapestry

Natural Silk

NO. 35788

China

5'7" X 6'9" (1.70 m x 2.06 m)

$8,000

Available: Shipping As Soon As Tomorrow

Antique Chinese Silk Tapestry, Elegant Florals and Birds on Black - Rug & Kilim

Handwoven with a luxurious embroidered silk circa 1920-1929, this 6x7 antique Chinese tapestry is a precious piece curated for Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry & Textile collection. On the Design: This whimsical design captures a fleeting moment in a celestial garden, featuring elegant florals bending gracefully with the wind as if swaying to a silent, ancient melody. Flanking these lush chrysanthemums is a series of birds in flight—most likely hummingbirds, given their intimate relationship to the blossoms and the iridescent precision of their plumage. There is a breathtaking linework and depth in the colors at play here, showcasing a deftness of hand that transforms silk thread into a living, breathing landscape. What is perhaps most striking is the dramatic positive-negative interplay created by the vibrant spring palette set against a profound, midnight-black ground. This bold choice not only lends the piece a commanding presence but also represents a radical departure from the earthy brown and gold tones typical of this lineage. The black silk acts as a velvet sky, allowing the soft creams, muted greens, and earthy terracottas to pop with an almost cinematic clarity. This rare pictorial piece is a labor of love and a sophisticated homage to nature, offering a unique, avant-garde spirit that remains entirely timeless. Condition: Enjoys overall good condition for its age and origin, though it has an additional lining as the keen eye will note in the reverse—intended for wall-hanging purposes as a tapestry only.

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Specifications:

Measurements: 5'7" x 6'9" ( 1.70 m x 2.06 m )
Categories: Antique, Oriental, Tapestry
Classification: Chinese, Classic/Traditional, Pictorial, Tapestry/Textile/Wall Hanging
Material: Natural Silk
Origin: China
SKU: 35788

From The Journal

Stories from the Tapestry Collection

Essays, artist dialogues, and provenance notes drawn from Rug & Kilim’s editorial desk.

What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs

September 23, 2026

What Makes Tibetan Wool the Gold Standard for Custom Rugs

Every great rug begins long before the loom. It begins on the animal, in the place, in the particular conditions that made the fiber what it is. And among all the wools that have ever been spun into a carpet, few can rival the wool of the Tibetan highlands, a material whose superiority is not a matter of marketing but of altitude, climate, and the unhurried logic of the natural world. The sheep of the Tibetan plateau live at elevations that would defeat most living things, thin air, brutal cold, a growing season measured against a sky closer than it has any right to be. Nature's answer to that severity is the fleece. To survive the plateau, the animal must grow a wool of exceptional density and, crucially, of exceptional lanolin content; the natural oil that coats each fiber, repels water, resists soil, and lends the finished yarn a luster and resilience that lowland wools cannot approach. What is hardship for the animal is a gift to the weaver.

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The Layered Home: 5 Ways to Rethink Floor Rugs and Wall Tapestries

The Layered Home: 5 Ways to Rethink Floor Rugs and Wall Tapestries

The real spatial dimension does not get painted, it gets woven. Begin with hanging a piece such as Signed Vintage Lia Cook Tapestry slightly off-center on one of your main walls. Its intricate Jacquard weave and the friction created between its rayon and linen fibers will require a lot of breathing room, immediately establishing a gravitational pull of the whole room. But to balance this vertical tension, the ground beneath your feet needs to become much more rigorous. With the use of a rigorously beaten warp-faced plane such as cotton Indian Dhurrie or Antique Swedish Röllakan's interlocking tapestry weave, you create a flat but structurally resistant base. A ground made from a rigidly woven material needs to be challenged. The last textural transition will come from placing a Vintage Frazada Kilim with heavy weft interlace across your warp-faced plane. The act of overlapping your heavy weft on a rigorously

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The Rug That Made the Room: Ten Interiors Where the Carpet Was the Only Decision That Mattered

The Rug That Made the Room: Ten Interiors Where the Carpet Was the Only Decision That Mattered

Every serious designer knows the moment. You walk into a room that is not yet finished; the furniture placed but provisional, the walls painted but unconvinced, the light doing its best with what it has been given and something stops you. Not the chandelier. Not the art. The floor. A carpet lies there with the particular authority of an object that has already decided what the room is going to be, and is waiting, with complete patience, for everything else to catch up. The furniture will be chosen in response to it. The color of the walls will be negotiated against it. The art will be hung at a height that the carpet's scale has already determined. The room, in the most literal sense, begins underfoot.

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From the Rothschild Collection: On Provenance, Collecting, and the Rugs That Outlast Everything

From the Rothschild Collection: On Provenance, Collecting, and the Rugs That Outlast Everything

In April 2016, three rugs arrived at Christie's King Street in London that had not been seen in public for over a century. They had not been exhibited. They had not been published. They had not, so far as the scholarly record indicates, been shown to anyone outside the family that owned them since before the First World War. They were Kerman Vase carpets, woven in southeastern Persia in the seventeenth century, acquired by Ferdinand de Rothschild before his death in 1898, passed to his sister Alice, then by descent to her nephew James, and held quietly, privately, with the particular discretion that distinguishes the greatest collections from merely expensive ones for one hundred and eighteen years.

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Rooms of Power: Rugs, Art, and the Architecture of Global Interiors

Rooms of Power: Rugs, Art, and the Architecture of Global Interiors

Before There Was Interior Design, There Was Placement Long before interiors were styled, they were composed through objects that carried worlds within them. A Mughal carpet was not simply placed beneath a court; it defined the court. A Savonnerie was not an accessory to Versailles; it was an extension of its order. A Chinese Art Deco rug did not decorate early modernist apartments; it translated an entire cultural vocabulary into a new architectural language. What we now call “interior design” is, at its highest level, a continuation of this lineage: the understanding that certain objects, particularly rugs are not passive. They carry with them histories of empire, trade, philosophy, and labor. They are, in essence, compressed geographies.

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The Art of Appraisal: Inside Rug & Kilim’s Culture of Connoisseurship

February 27, 2026

The Art of Appraisal: Inside Rug & Kilim’s Culture of Connoisseurship

Rug & Kilim Showroom — a house of woven gems, collected with intention. There is a difference between owning a rug and stewarding one. At Rug & Kilim, appraisal exists at the intersection of scholarship, diplomacy, and design history. To evaluate a textile at the highest level is to understand not only fiber and knot count but courts and ateliers, fashion houses and museums, auction rostrums and private salons. Because in truth, the greatest rugs and tapestries have always belonged to the same cultural tier as painting and architecture. A carpet signed by Jules Leleu does not simply carry a market price; it carries the intellectual weight of Paris between the wars. A tapestry attributed to Jean Lurcat is not merely woven wool; it is postwar Europe reasserting itself through myth and modernism. To appraise such works requires fluency not only in textile technique, but in art history, fashion, architecture, diplomacy—and the subtle codes of elite taste.

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Antique Chinese Silk Textile

Antique Chinese Silk Textile

Antique Chinese Silk Textile

Antique Chinese Silk Textile

Antique Chinese Silk Textile

Antique Chinese Silk Textile

Antique Chinese Silk Textile

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Tapestry

Natural Silk

NO. 35788

China

5'7" X 6'9" (1.70 m x 2.06 m)

$8,000

Available: Shipping as Soon as Tomorrow

Antique Chinese Silk Tapestry, Elegant Florals and Birds on Black - Rug & Kilim

Handwoven with a luxurious embroidered silk circa 1920-1929, this 6x7 antique Chinese tapestry is a precious piece curated for Rug & Kilim’s Tapestry & Textile collection. On the Design: This whimsical design captures a fleeting moment in a celestial garden, featuring elegant florals bending gracefully with the wind as if swaying to a silent, ancient melody. Flanking these lush chrysanthemums is a series of birds in flight—most likely hummingbirds, given their intimate relationship to the blossoms and the iridescent precision of their plumage. There is a breathtaking linework and depth in the colors at play here, showcasing a deftness of hand that transforms silk thread into a living, breathing landscape. What is perhaps most striking is the dramatic positive-negative interplay created by the vibrant spring palette set against a profound, midnight-black ground. This bold choice not only lends the piece a commanding presence but also represents a radical departure from the earthy brown and gold tones typical of this lineage. The black silk acts as a velvet sky, allowing the soft creams, muted greens, and earthy terracottas to pop with an almost cinematic clarity. This rare pictorial piece is a labor of love and a sophisticated homage to nature, offering a unique, avant-garde spirit that remains entirely timeless. Condition: Enjoys overall good condition for its age and origin, though it has an additional lining as the keen eye will note in the reverse—intended for wall-hanging purposes as a tapestry only.

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Specifications:

Measurements: 5'7" x 6'9" ( 1.70 m x 2.06 m )
Categories: Antique, Oriental, Tapestry
Classification: Chinese, Classic/Traditional, Pictorial, Tapestry/Textile/Wall Hanging
Material: Natural Silk
Origin: China
SKU: 35788

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