Antique Chinese Khotan Rug natural dyes its empires and its monuments

its empires and its monuments appear across the field in a way that no other rug weaving city does quite the same way

woven with a precision so fine that the back of a Kashan rug is nearly as beautiful as the front

Stock Number: BR01

reflected in the circular motifs that symbolise moons or celestial forms

Size: 301 x 238 cm | 9'11" x 7'10"

Antique Chinese Khotan Rug natural dyes its empires and its monumentsThis rug comes from Khotan, an ancient oasis city in the Xinjiang region of western China, sitting at the crossroads of the Silk Road where Chinese, Persian and Central Asian cultures met and traded for centuries. That position shaped everything about the way these rugs were made and what ended up in them. Khotan rugs are unlike anything else from China. Where most Chinese rugs draw from a strictly Chinese visual vocabulary, Khotan absorbed influences