Modern Chinese rugs

Wool Area Rugs

The modern Chinese rugs come principally from Peking and Tien­tsin. In Nanking rugs similar to those of Peking are made.

Several provinces in China make rugs coarser in quality than those made in Peking and Tien-tsin, but with interesting, if crude, designs. Mongolia and Manchuria (especially Mukden) now send many rugs to the United States and other foreign countries.

The demand from all countries, the United States in particular, is responsible for the development of Chinese rugmaking to a large industry. In Shanghai a Chinese rug factory has been purchased by men from the United States who expect to enlarge and improve the output.

No rugs from this factory are sold in China, either to the public or to buyers for American or any other foreign trade. Instead, the rugs are shipped to the United States and at stated intervals sold at auction to different buyers for the retail trade.