Ben Banayan

Luri Bakhtiari Sumac Panel. Much better than average. Bird Border, very Luristan Bronzish. a green tassel is attached to the front upper-left ... read more

East Anatolian Kurdish long rug with a Caucasian Lenkoran design. Vibrant color, exceptional wool, worn. 3 different main border types.

Baluch bag with quartered design of eight-pointed stars. Great color and wool. One of the best renditions of the type.

Turkmen Yomut Chuval, worn but much more interesting than most of the type. fine weave, precision detailing and great color saturation. Very ... read more

Ersari Trapping, great vibrant madder red. The top row of ornament is drawn on a smaller scale while the bottom is larger-scale ... read more

Chinese textile fragment. Ming dynasty, Wanli period?

Large (5'1" x 8'3" 155x252cm) East Anatolian Yatak with harshang and other ornament (alien cyclopses?)

Baluch octagon star bag, not just more of the same. An older example with individuating features and an idiosyncratic cinnamon hue to ... read more

Baluch camel-ground prayer rug, excellent stylized trees, great hand panels, soft Baluchi wool with natural abrash in the camel, saturated natural ... read more

16th / 17th century Lotto Carpet fragment, nice detailing, highlights with blues and a lazy line. There is a small tag with ... read more

Central Asian Uzbek? pile strip fragment woven almost like a tentband. (Take a look at the back.) Great colors, wool, and ikat ... read more

Yomut Turkmen Torba, well spaced smaller format piece with 3 rows of complementary but diversely drawn guls. Well weighted at the bottom. ... read more

Safavid Persian silk sleeve with shrubs and silver metallic clouds, mounted and conserved.

Northwest Persian Kurd rug with Memling guls, animals and flowers on a dark ground. Camel ground border with good color including several ... read more

East Anatolian Kurdish rug fragment. Super vibrant madder. mounted and conserved.

Sogdian silk samite weave belt with four leaping animals, circa 800.

Old Tekke Main Carpet fragment. Old, lush and supple with a velvety buttery feel. Fantastic drape and saturated color.

Northwest Persian Shahsevan pile fragment with a large polka-dotted quadrupedal animal, birds, trees, and a somewhat anatomically correct human male figure. Excellent ... read more

Shahsevan? Luri? bagface with great color and graphic appeal. haven't seen anything quite like this but it is quite attractive. It seems ... read more

Central Persian Isfahan Carpet, Safavid era, first half 17th century, silk and cotton warp, cotton weft, lac red ground, fine weave, cut ... read more

Squarish Ersari / Eastern Turkmen, or perhaps Uzbek Tent Carpet. Minimal borders with dynamic field pattern of repeating but never exactly identical ... read more

Northwest Persian Rug, Kurdish or maybe Shahsevan? Memling gul design on camel ground with great colors. The whites towards the bottom are ... read more

These fragments are the two elem panels of what must have been a great and early Abdal, Yomut sub-group main carpet. ... read more