book: Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari: Village, Workshop and Nomadic Rugs of Western Persia by Peter Willborg (published 2002). English text. Very important ... read more
This khagangma, or Tibetan seating square, is simply nothing short of an extraordinary example of Tibetan woven art. Stunningly beautiful, relatively large ... read more
Asian art. Elaborately decorated museum quality gilded brass Newari oil lamp known as a Sukunda, hand crafted by an exceptionally gifted artisan ... read more
So-called ‘warp-faced-back’ runner (long carpet) woven in the Wangden valley region of Tibet. Given the colours, this thick heavy carpet with its ... read more
Book. Lion-Dogs Hundred Antiques: Classical Chinese Carpets 1. Various chapters are authored by Michael Franses, Gary Dickinson, and Hwee Lie; with a ... read more
Beautiful richly saturated warp-faced-back large over-saddle carpet or 'masho', presumably from the Wangden valley region of Tibet, with two archaic mandala-like medallions ... read more
ikat: Silks of Central Asia - The Guido Goldman Collection by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Hale (slip-cased edition, published 1997). Arguably still ... read more
Lustrous Tibetan warp-faced-back under-saddle carpet (makden) woven in the Wangden valley region of Tibet some time in the mid to latter half ... read more
Tibetan three paneled checkered tsuktruk, the three individual strips having been woven separately on a narrow loom and then sewn together to ... read more
Aesthetically pleasing, uncluttered and very well balanced pictorial Chinese carpet featuring a Buddhist lama (i.e. ‘priest’) made originally to be wall-hung in ... read more
Large, beautiful, naturally dyed Ersari Turkoman hand woven 'main carpet' from the later half of the 19th century. Originally made somewhere in ... read more
Complete two piece set of Tibetan saddle carpets with a matched design, that is both the under-saddle (makden) and over-saddle (masho) carpets, ... read more
Finnish long pile woolen ryijy (pronounced roo-e-you), or 'rug' in English, woven circa 1850 or before in the traditional old rural style ... read more
Scandinavia. Finnish ryijy. Finnish long-pile one piece woolen ryijy (pronounced roo-e-you), or 'rug' in English, woven in the early 20th century. Ryijy's ... read more
Beautiful late 19th century inner Mongolian (i.e. the Baotou - Suiyuan region) 'wasp-wasted' under-saddle carpet with all natural dyes in original ‘as ... read more
Two seating squares (sometimes referred to as ‘mediation’ squares / carpets) that have almost certainly come from a much longer Tibetan ‘runner’ ... read more
Very unusual Tibetan saddle carpet. What at first glance looks like your ‘normal’ oval shaped under-saddle carpet (that is, two halves simply ... read more
Tibet. Unique pile-less seating square woven in a very interesting and unusual knotting style, being either rural or nomadic work with primarily ... read more
Beautiful Tibetan seating square featuring a mandala like center motif afloat in a light 'goldish-brown' field sparingly decorated with clouds, with the ... read more
Mafrash are primarily from eastern Turkey, far north western Iran (Persia) and the southern Caucasus, although they are not only made there. ... read more
Strikingly vibrant Tibetan khaden with three medallions and the so-called 'frog foot' design scattered throughout the center field. The main border is ... read more
Tibetan under-saddle carpet (makden) of the so-called 'butterfly type', the shape of which is generally believed to have been 'introduced' by the ... read more
So-called Gansu-kilim. When describing an almost identical ink painted kilim-like tapestry in the highly recommended book Early Carpets and Tapestries on the ... read more
Tibetan khaden with various shades of blue making up the so-called 'gau box', or amulet, design evenly interspaced throughout the brown main ... read more
Finnish ryijy (Swedish 'rya') designed by Leena Kaisa Halme entitled ‘Jääpuikkoja’ (in English ‘icicle’). Ryijy's / rya's are traditional Scandinavian wool rugs ... read more
