What Is A Fette Rug
Nichols chinese rugs nichols chinese rug brochure from the 1930 s.
What is a fette rug. Classic chinese carpet designs origin of chinese symbols and designs. Art deco helen fette oriental table rug red. Prior to this time there was very little variety in design and color of chinese rugs. From a private dallas fort worth collection.
Amirkhan of dallas tx in 2007. They started producing rugs out of the peking area in the early 1920 s and were one of the largest exporters of the period. Soon fette li company became one of the largest rug exporters of the time. An antique rug s uniqueness intricacy and complexity is only limited to its creator s imagination.
Fette rugs were well known for their excellent reproduction of the peking designs and patterns but with a european influence. Fette rugs are recognizable by their floppy. Rug weaving in tiensin and peking china grew into a large industry in the 1920s and 1930s. Chinese deco carpets article about 1920 s 1930 s and the art deco carpet.
2 x 2 price now. Art deco helen fette oriental table rug red. For this reason the sky is the limit when it comes to the possible price of a high quality rug. These fette rugs were authenticated and appraised by well known oriental rug expert ellen a.
Fette and nichols art deco rugs bios of helen fette and walter nichols. Our rug galleries antique oriental rugs. She teamed up with chinese rug manufacturer li meng shu to form the fette li company. τhey stood out from the competition because of their floppy feel which was a result of the thinner and more pliable cotton warps.
Ningxia rugs a region in china and a quality designation. This lack of variety changed when mrs. Helen fette went to china as a missionary selling small rugs to raise funds for charities.