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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Complete sumak khorjin double saddle bag set. Diverse color with a little bit of an orange that seems iffy.
    price:  $1200 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • East Anatolian Kurd long pile fluffy rug on a striped kilim. Not sure what these are called but this is a good ... read more
    price:  $4,800 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Yomut / Karadashli main carpet with tauk-nuska guls. Fantastic Elena, particularly at the top, great condition. 165x265cm
    price:  $9,800 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Large Baluch complete bag with octagon star in square middle. Super glossy wool, floppy handle, and complete flatwoven back still attached. Recently ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Tall camel ground Baluch prayer rugs with copious silk highlights, some damage at the top, beautiful flatwoven ends which have been reattached. ... read more
    price:  $350... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Crisply drawn Camel Ground Baluch Prayer Rug with elongated stylized hands, depressed warp Khorosan type. Dated Baluch prayer rug, a piece from ... read more
    price:  $1200 benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Squarish shaped camel ground Baluch prayer rug, probably Zabol area, Sistan and Baluchistan, Southeast Persia, nice thing, 2'8"x3'4"
    price:  $450 contact... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Tekke ensi fragment with good age and some very interesting features.
    price:  $250 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Kirghiz fragment found in Tibet, older than any Kirghiz piece I've seen with an ancient aesthetic. ... It appears to be quite ... read more
    price:  more than most sane people would pay... a lot... approaching ransom

  • Tekke Turkmen tent band fragment. Nice narrow one, 8.5"x75".
    price:  $850

  • Square-shaped Baluch rug with a repeat diamond latch-hook design. All good color with a subtle but effective use of to tone. Thick ... read more
    price:  $550

  • Baluch rug with a small-scale embroidered design rendered in pile. Narrow border, uncommon type, 4x6ish
    price:  $350

  • Camel ground Sistan Baluch balisht with crisply drawn ashiks.
    price:  $250

  • Salor Turkmen main carpet fragment, beautiful color, copious silk, all the bells and whistles
    price:  SOLD

  • Large, very rustic / tribal Baluch prayer rug. Amazingly soft wool, all good colors.verx unusual back. Lots of Aubergine! Western Afghanistan, perhaps ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Complete Baluch khorjin set, snowflake / blossom design. One of the oldest complete Baluch saddle bags I've ever seen, if not the ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch double-sided flatwoven salt bag, tribal region, Northwest frontier, an old one with great color and execution, old repair in one side ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Double-sided pile Baluch salt bag, Sistan area, great condition complete with goat hair carrying chord, 36x50cm
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Complete antique Baluch balisht. Great wool , saturated natural color, complete striped back and gist hair fasteners still intact.
    price:  $650 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Central Anatolian yastik, nice type
    price:  POR... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Baluch chanteh bag with a very uncommon design. Pile front , flat woven back with some leather
    price:  $550 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch double sided pile small chanteh bag, all good colors, glossy wool. probably Sistan region
    price:  SOLD

  • 寧夏地毯用起重機,寶座回來,18世紀. 非常柔軟的羊毛! 良好的條件 Chinese Ningxia throne-back with a double crane roundel surrounded by clouds. Great imagery,likely 18th century type with remarkable wool and great ... read more
    price:  on request

  • Baluch camel ground prayer rug with animals, abstracted shrubs, and a Shi'a inscription that reads, 'Allah, Muhammad, Ali, Hassan, Hussein' kilim ends
    price:  $2200

  • Bijar directional niched or prayer rug. Unusual format, great color. 3'10"x4'10"
    price:  contact... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Super velvety, saturated Turkmen rug fragment with two gul variants; temurchin guls and tauk-nuskka. This is an old one, most probably middle ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Ottoman embroidery fragment with classical drawing, likely 17th century, 3'6"x1'6"
    price:  SOLD

  • East Anatolian Kurdish yastik. This pieces uses several talismanic knots of either horse or possibly human hair in areas of the bottom. ... read more
    price:  $450

  • 'Der thrakische Silberschatz aus Rogosen Bulgarien' German text published in Bulgaria with copious color and black and white plates of gold and ... read more
    price:  $20 plus shipping

  • Caucasian sumak rug
    price:  On request

  • Bashir or Uzbek rug with an ikat design (ak kymak). Fragmented, mounted, and conserved, 3'1"x4'5"
    price:  $850

  • Armenian Lenkoran fragment inscribed 'Lusinia Tanielov in the year 1903'. 3'9"x6'0"
    price:  $1800

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish rug with a star border and 'Memling gul'design
    price:  POR

  • Ladik border fragment, likely 18th century
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch camel ground rug with an asmalyk design and minakhani border. Camel warp as well. Size is about 3'6"x 7".
    price:  POR

  • Baluch main carpet with a 'harshang' variant palmette design. Worn but still regal with excellent blues. Unusual 3 column variant.
    price:  SOLD

  • Safavid Persian silk sleeve with shrubs and silver metallic clouds, mounted and conserved.
    price:  POR

  • Northwest Persian flatwoven bag. Probably Kurdish. Not quite ' reverse sumak '. One side is flat while the other is more textured. ... read more
    price:  $495

  • Interesting Senneh or related west Persian bagface with Qajar soldiers bearing swords and birds in the corners, nice wool and saturated natural ... read more
    price:  $550

  • Baluch camel ground prayer rug with large ashik like design, black animal hair weft, tight thick weave, condition is quite messed up ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Isfahan Carpet, Safavid era, first half 17th century, silk and cotton warp, cotton weft, lac red ground, fine weave, cut and shut, ... read more
    price:  POR

  • Varamin torba, fantastic wool, floppy handle, and high pile. This piece is a tactile delight!
    price:  $1200

  • Baluch bird bag face with a curled leaf border
    price:  SOLD

  • Konya rug fragment, circa 1800 or perhaps earlier? Excellent aubergine.
    price:  $500

  • Nice old worn Shirvan rug, 4x8ish, with a fine weave and nice color.

  • Baluch 'crypto prayer rug'? with a dramatic border break at the top and blue and white silk knots punctuating a line about ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch single wefted minakhani bag face, large, healthy pile, classic drawing, saturated natural color, soft and bouncy. 35"x27"
    price:  SOLD

  • Border detail from a Safavid era Kerman 'vase technique' carpet fragment.