Antique Chinese Khotan Rug natural dyes Size: 292 x 95 cm

Size: 292 x 95 cm

Stock Number: MM23

Size: 182 x 100 cm | 6' x 3'3"

Persian and Central Asian cultures met and traded for centuries

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

Antique Chinese Khotan Rug natural dyes Size: 292 x 95 cmThis 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