What Is A Fette Rug

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What is a fette rug.

Fette and nichols art deco rugs bios of helen fette and walter nichols. Rug weaving in tiensin and peking china grew into a large industry in the 1920s and 1930s. Art deco helen fette oriental table rug red. Prior to this time there was very little variety in design and color of chinese rugs.

These fette rugs were authenticated and appraised by well known oriental rug expert ellen a. Fette rugs are recognizable by their floppy. One of a kind oriental rugs can take excessive time skill and effort to produce. She teamed up with chinese rug manufacturer li meng shu to form the fette li company.

From a private dallas fort worth collection. Soon fette li company became one of the largest rug exporters of the time. This lack of variety changed when mrs. Our rug galleries antique oriental rugs.

For this reason the sky is the limit when it comes to the possible price of a high quality rug. Chinese deco carpets article about 1920 s 1930 s and the art deco carpet. Helen fette her hsuband franklin and their two children arrived in peking in 1919. Helen fette went to china as a missionary selling small rugs to raise funds for charities.

Art deco helen fette oriental table rug red. How we photograph rugs. Nichols chinese rugs nichols chinese rug brochure from the 1930 s. They started producing rugs out of the peking area in the early 1920 s and were one of the largest exporters of the period.

τhey stood out from the competition because of their floppy feel which was a result of the thinner and more pliable cotton warps. Fette rugs were well known for their excellent reproduction of the peking designs and patterns but with a european influence. 2 x 2 price now.