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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Shahsevan sumak bag face. Very nice greens, wonky tribal shape. Size is 17"x20"
    price:  $400 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bag face with shrubs. Vibrant natural color and good condition. 31"x26"
    price:  $375 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • An unusual East Anatolian rug with columns of palmettes integrated into a large-scale striped textile design, great wool and color , 3'6"x5'6"
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Middle Amu Darya carpet with an unusual and compelling floral lattice design.
    price:  POR benbana@gmail.com

  • Camel-ground tribal rug with a pair of abstracted trees. 19th century, all good colors. Black, tan, grey, and red weft. Asymmetric knot ... read more
    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

  • Enigmatic double niched Baluch rug. This is the only example of the format that i have seen that is asymmetrically knotted. There ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small camel ground Baluch rug with floating diagonal elements excellently spaced, rustic construction with camel, wool and brindled warp, striped kilim on ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • 18th century Ionian Greek island embroidery, section of a cuff with an Italianate oak leaf and acorn meander. Probably Ionian Islands, Corfu? or ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Unusual Baluch prayer rug with dark natural undyed camel wool and saturated natural dyes. An eccentric rendering of a classic design type ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Central Asian Kungrat Uzbek embroidered ilgich with a 'Memling gul' design. Quintessentially tribal. 27"x28"
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch complete double saddle bag set, a small khorjin or possibly a chanteh set? Sistan area. Silk pile highlights in the center ... read more
    price:  $2200 benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Ivory ground Baluch salt bag, pile front, flatwoven back
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Starburst Caucasian Zeichur rug with a dark corroded ground, very colorful with a sculptural effect.
    price:  $850

  • Yomut wedding? rug. Cute piece with good dyes.
    price:  $400

  • Baluch bird bag with intriguing border, fine weave, saturated natural color.
    price:  $650 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Very dynamic 'cloudband Bashir' Central Asian Turkmen carpet. Former Jim Dixon collection. Fantastic color which is not conveyed well in these images ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Very Old Central Asian / Uzbek main carpet with crosses in octagons. Great saturated and diverse color with an amazing border of ... read more
    price:  High contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Very long Baluch pile trapping of some sort. Looks almost like a balisht on growth hormones. Classic Baluch leaf design on a ... read more
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Dokhtar-i Qazi prayer rug published in Hali 53, exhibited in the 1990 icoc.
    price:  SOLD

  • Pair of small Yomud torbas complete with original backs, chords, and tassels. All natural color. Excellent condition!
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Elongated Yomud asmalyk with mixed cotton and wool weft and interesting almost 'ying yang' drawing at the top of the central point.
    price:  $750 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch Timuri type prayer rug with a very rare rendition of abstracted geometric repeating shrubs. Leaves if light blue at the top, ... read more
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  • Joft-knotted Khorosan / Herat minakhani fragment, circa 1800 or a little earlier, cotton warp, wool weft group, fantastic drawing and color. It ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Inscribed Shahsevan sumak band with Memling guls and stars. Measures about 227x16cm including the macrame end finishes. The length of the sumak ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Old, elegant, banded central Anatolian kilim. Excellent refined color.
    price:  SOLD

  • Fakhralo Kazak rug with Sevan influences. Dated 1310 (1892). All good colors, lustrous wool, nice handle. 4'6"x5:7"
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch double-sided sumak salt bag with a design seemingly derived from a Turkmen tentband, one side more worn than the other, still ... read more
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  • Purple ground Baluch bag face with cotton white pile. Former James Douglas Collection
    price:  SOLD

  • Middle Amu Darya region Turkmen or Uzbek ensi. Older than most of this type. Large scale with bold yet unabbreviated drawing. Great ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Small Khorosan Baluch octagon star bag face with vivid polychromatic blues and a substantial and dramatic flat-woven band of floating weft work.small ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Japanese Edo period silk with metal thread temple banner. Calligraphy on cotton backing denotes the patron and monastic institution. Circa 1800-1825. Smaller, ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish fragment
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch Sistan bag face with a Mushwani design. Full pile with sumak and kilim at the bottom end. Highlights in the center ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Elegant small Baluch sofreh with an abstract tree floating against a camel ground. Great color and graphic cohesion. Wonderful use of all ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • 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

  • Balkan / Macedonian? silk embroidered pair of bands. Possibly cuffs or sections from a bridal pillow. Fantastic saturated natural color. Fascinating drawing. ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Multi flatweave technique complete Baluch salt bag. Uncommon leaf design sometimes found on Baluch pile ghurbaghe rugs, beautiful colorful striped back.
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch multi-flatweave technique salt bag with a particularly finely rendered striped weft brocaded field. Not common, a good thing.
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Baluch flatwoven salt bag
    price:  $250

  • 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

  • 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

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

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