Warped and Wefted

  • So-called 'Gansu-kilim' from China. This piece vividly displays the wood block print designs scattered throughout the natural undyed wool of the main-field, ... read more
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  • Striking yak wool ‘Wangden-style’ (i.e. warp-faced-back) Tibetan carpet displaying three auspicious yungdrung (swastika) motifs encased within three distinct design squares. It has ... read more
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  • Tibetan dance collars or ‘cloud collars’ were worn by Buddhists lamas during ceremonial dances, where the coller “opens and flows” as the ... read more
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  • Folding ‘altar table’ that a Tibetan Lama (a Buddhist 'priest') would have taken with him on his travels to use when performing ... read more
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  • From the Baotou-Suiyuan / Inner Mongolian region of China, this carpet has an un-dyed brown camel hair coloured main field which the ... read more
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  • Pair of Bhutanese Mahakala (red and black) painted ceremonial dance masks, hand carved in the early part of the 1900’s. The rich ... read more
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  • From the Ningxia region of China comes this five dragon carpet with a center field of naturally dyed lightly abrashed blue that ... read more
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  • This small Tibetan chest is made of wood with leather trim fastened by metal tabs and painted on three of the side ... read more
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  • Impressive tiger carpet from the Inner Mongolian region of China. The tiger is very well rendered against a red background and is ... read more
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  • Exceptionally beautiful, intentionally abrashed, Tibetan khaden with all natural dyes. Using the ‘gau box’ (or amulet) design and combining only two colours ... read more
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  • The portrayal of a tiger was a powerful symbol of high rank in Tibet with both the secular upper class and the ... read more
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  • This pillar carpet featuring a five clawed right facing blue dragon on a golden yellow background was made in the Ningxia region ... read more
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  • Sensational Tibetan takheb intended for use as a horse or yak cover / blanket, with an elaborate, visually stunning, multi-coloured flower-head design ... read more
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  • Impressive six square runner made in the Ningxia region of China featuring two dancing cranes in a roundel on an apricot coloured ... read more
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  • Tibetan khaden with a center field design made up of roundels and half roundels that is generally associated as mimicking Chinese silk ... read more
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  • Impressive Tibetan khaden featuring multiple Khotanesque-like flower heads spread evenly throughout a deep indigo blue abrashed center field. All the dyes are ... read more
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  • Tibetan Gyatsen, i.e. 'tubular' religious ornamentation's that are often hung from the ceiling on either side of a Tibetan altar, or on ... read more
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  • Tibetan khaden with two dragons frolicking in the clouds while competing for the elusive ‘precious gem / flaming pearl’. Made in the ... read more
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  • Tibetan khaden featuring six bats surrounding two central lotus flowers on a beautifully abrashed maroon-red main field, while the wide main border ... read more
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  • Vintage Finnish ryijy featuring a folk-art design popular in the Pori area on the south-west coast of Finland in the early part ... read more
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  • Captivating old burgundy coloured large Baluch, beautifully abrashed throughout and a main field featuring eighteen quirky unconventional octagonal guls / gols (i.e. ... read more
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  • Lovely Tibetan khaden with three mandala-like medallions and uncommon abstract main border motifs. The pile is full throughout, the dyes are excellent ... read more
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  • Central Asian silk purse, probably Uzbek or Turkoman, of indeterminate use. It is flat-woven and made of tightly stitched hand spun silk ... read more
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  • Tibetan under-saddle carpet or ‘makden’ with an uncommon main motif roundel, referred to by some as a Khotan roundel or a ‘Khotan ... read more
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  • Late 'Classical Chinese' period runner from the Ningxia (or Beijing?) region that has been shortened by rejoining three 'sections' of a longer ... read more
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  • Rare Chinese military rank buzi (pu zi) or ‘insignia badge / Mandarin Square’ - the bear portrayed denoting a military rank of ... read more
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  • Reddish-brown coloured Tibetan seating carpet (or shugden) with yellow floral motifs encased by a simple t border; the entirety of which consists ... read more
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  • Books, Books, Books. Several rug books for sale. Three on Tibetan rugs and weaving, one on Chinese (and Tibetan) horse tack, and ... read more
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  • Tibetan seating carpet (khagangma) depicting a single front-facing five clawed dragon, being unusual in that it shows the dragon in profile, as ... read more
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  • Carpet book(s) for sale. One copy of "Oriental Rugs, Volume 5, Turkoman Rugs" by Uwe Jourdan. Hard cover in plastic over-cover and ... read more
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  • Beautiful natural dyed and a graphic 'shimmering' designed Rolakan weaving from the south of Sweden, circa 1900. designed with what is often ... read more
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  • This uncommon and exquisitely designed seven mandala-like roundel runner was made in Ningxia, China, in the first half of the 19th century ... read more
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  • This five clawed left facing blue dragon with burnished yellow background pillar carpet was made in Ningxia and meant to wrap around ... read more
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  • Several rug books for sale. Four on Tibetan rugs and weaving, one on Turkoman. All by well respected authors in their field, ... read more
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  • Look out! Snow Leopard! Vintage wool-embroidered soft and supple snow leopard 'pelt' bought from a Tibetan shopkeeper in Ladakh, but almost certainly ... read more
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  • Striking ‘Beshir’ / Middle Amu Darya Turkman juval with the mina khani design, complete and intact with a plain woven backing with ... read more
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  • Five dragon seating mat, possibly meant for a Lama to meditate on, that was made in Ningxia, China, in the very early ... read more
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  • Rare and collectable Chinese carpet that came out of Tibet – hence the red cloth covered felt border so popular amongst Tibetans ... read more
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  • Very rare limited edition Tibetan carpet book entitled “Auspicious Carpets. Tibetan Rugs And Textiles”, edited by Daniel Miller and designed by Tashi ... read more
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  • Funky old Tibetan khaden with three mandala medallions and an outer three-dimensional ‘t’ border, while the inner border is decorated using the ... read more
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  • Naturally dyed Tibetan checkered khaden with small (approximately +/- 2cm x 2cm) blue and white squares; the blue of which is abrashed ... read more
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  • Fine elegant silk embroidered banner with finely woven silk threads, and wafer-thin silver encased silk threads, which came from / was used ... read more
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  • Rare one-of-a-kind set of the ‘front-pile-faces’ of four Tibetan cushion covers - or 'gabney' - intact as woven; that is left uncut ... read more
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  • Beautiful Wangden warp-faced-back seating carpet from southern Tibet with thick pile and all natural red, green and light blue dyes with lovely ... read more
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  • Mongolian under-saddle rug for use with a camel, made sometime between 1900 and circa 1920 - probably in the Baotou-Suiyuan region of ... read more
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  • Tibetan 'butterfly-shaped' checkered makden, or under-saddle carpet. Black and white checkered center field, thin blue inner border, narrow black outer border. Circa ... read more
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  • Tibetan masho (‘over-saddle’ carpet). Dark blue and white checkered center field, pearl inner border, 'rice grain' secondary border, Greek t outer border ... read more
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  • South Persian Tribal. Strikingly beautiful ‘eye-dazzler’ kilim from the early 1900's. Very finely woven and saturated with lovely abrashed rich natural dyes. ... read more
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