Gallery 51. Craig Wallen

Gallery 51 specializing in collectible rugs and fine antique textile art .

Haliden. Craig Bale and Andy Lloyd

Haliden.com was the UK's first website specializing in oriental carpets and is today one of THE most active sites of its kind. Many of the world's most distinguished dealers and collectors are regular visitors to this site.

Thomas Cole specializing in collectible Turkmen, Uzbek, Kirghiz, Baluch and Persian tribal (oriental) rugs, bagfaces and weavings as well as Central Asian silk embroidery and textile art. Featuring rare historical photographs of Central Asia, interesting articles about various aspects of different groups of rugs as well as entertaining travelogue writing with photographs and accounts of journeys through the Central Asian rug markets.

Sam Coad. Onecentralasia.com

This small site is devoted to the appreciation of antique textiles which were at one time among the most highly valued creations of man. There are examples dating from the 4th.century BC. through to the end of the 18th. century AD. These textiles are of great beauty and importance.

TurkoTek

Turko Tek a noncommercial site devoted to collectible weavings, where rug
enthusiasts can connect.

The New England Rug Society

(NERS) is an informal, non-profit organization of people interested in enriching their knowledge and appreciation of antique oriental rugs and textiles.

Hajji Baba Club

This site is a venue for sharing information among members of the world's oldest club for rug collectors, and with visitors who are interested in things related to oriental rugs. We hope you find it useful, and that you will look in often.

Bertram Frauenknecht

Bertram Frauenknecht has travelled widely in the East with emphasis on Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, just to mention the major areas.
After years of running galleries and exhibiting on invitation in galleries of friends he is now working from home under the guidance of Mariola.
Concentrating on outstanding material , mostly tribal, they have gathered a remarkable collection of rare pieces.
To be partly seen on his website:

Rugbooks, Dennis B. Marquand and Wesley B. Marquand

Dennis B. Marquand Wesley B. Marquand P.O. Box 1187 Culver City, CA 90232-1187 USA Telephone: (310) 313-0177 Fax: (310) 915-9922

R.Franklin Hort

If you are shopping for Antique Oriental Rugs Our aim is to sell you
items that are Tribal pieces in good condition with wonderful colors and at affordable prices. We pride ourselves with being honest. We list all of our prices up front and try to make them reasonable from the beginning so as not to make anyone have to go through any severe mental stress to find out what you&re actually going to pay for the piece. Have a look at the galleries of our rug inventory like: American Indian Art , American Hooked Rugs ,Bags & Trappings, Baluch Rugs , Caucasian Rugs , Central Asia Rugs , Chinese Rugs , Collectible Plates & Gifts, Kilim/Flatwoven Rugs, Native Costumes, Native Head Dress, Persian Rugs , Prayer Rugs, Runners & Long Rugs , Tribal Art , Turkish Rugs or Turkman Rugs.

Clive Rogers Oriental Rugs

Clive Rogers (Oriental Rugs) specialise in tribal and other antique carpets, textiles and works of art from Asia / Near East.Services Include:
sales including site/home approval
conservation and cleaning
professional assistance to architects etc.
Turkey - aide de camp
technical analysis/research
publications and film set work
Established on the South Coast in 1973 and relocated in 1997 to purpose built studios at Wraysbury village ( near Windsor) we will soon be within 4 miles of London Heathrow Airport's new Terminal 5.

Calikala

Behind Calikala are William Tardieu and Zovig Balian-Tardieu, a husband and wife team, who work by appointment only ­ currently in Kuwait. They travel extensively and source rare or unusual textiles and artefacts. hey are thus able to offer an eclectic range of collectibles: Central Asian embroidery and silks, Caucasian, Persian, and Anatolian rugs and tribal weavings, Turkmen trappings, Southeast Asian textiles, and metal and wooden objects of both ethnographic and aesthetic interest.

calikala@hotmail.com

NOMAD, Stolp D Fraser

I have been buying, selling and collecting rugs and textiles since 1973. While living in Stockholm, I began working extensively with German Bogner at Bernheimer's in Munich; specializing in antique Turkish prayer kelims and Turkmen rugs, I acquired substantial collections for the firm. Many became part of featured exhibitions and numerous pieces ended up in Herr Bogner's private collection.
I continued collecting throughout the 1980's, acquiring some significant early Turkish village rugs and kelims. These, along with Turkmen and Central Asian pieces remain at the core of my interest today, though Nomad also offers Caucasian, Persian, and Kurdish weavings and textiles.
For the last seven years I have been traveling extensively in Central Asia while searching for Turkmen and non-Turkmen rugs, trappings and textiles. I spend about eight months a year in the U.S. offering high quality antique rugs and textiles from my home / gallery in East Hampton, New York, (by appointment only). The rest of the year Nomad is operating out Gallery Odabasi in Sultanahmet / Nuruosumaniye, Istanbul.
FOCUS
My primary aim is to offer extremely good antique rugs that combine the artistic merit of a "collector's rug" with the good condition and aesthetic design of a "decorator's rug". While I offer a small number of textiles and some fragmentary pieces, they must be of an age and graphic standard that allows them to be displayed along with other works of art such as painting and sculpture.