Warped and Wefted

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

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

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

Floral Khagangma seating carpet from Tibet, of a design not often seen. The main field is a simple single flower growing from ... read more

Two-toned naturally dyed Tibetan seating carpet – or shugden - with light blue coloured motifs of various sorts over a darker blue ... read more

Unique pictorial carpet from the Baotou-Suiyuan region of China depicting a hawk or eagle resting on a gnarled old tree staring down ... read more

Scandinavian 'folk art' wedding-bed cover with thick sheep's wool backing made in Sweden in 1907. Surely a one-off hand-made village piece prepared ... read more

Tibetan under-saddle carpet or makden. a single frolicking dragon is enclosed inside a mandala shaped outline on either side with flowers ... read more

Beautiful richly coloured naturally dyed Tibetan seating carpet. The three dimensional 'Greek t' main border encloses an inner secondary border with crosses ... read more

Lustrous burgundy coloured beautifully abrashed four-panel Tibetan tsuktruk with soft deep pile. Woven circa 1900 with hand-spun wool warp and weft and ... read more

Tiger, Tiger! Vintage wool-embroidered soft and supple tiger 'pelt' made in Kashmir in the later part of the 1900’s. Mix of dyed ... read more

Striking Tibetan makden (‘under-saddle’ carpet) exhibiting a Khotan-like influence with an elaborate mandala motif surrounded by a fine trellis-like circular blue ‘necklace'. ... read more

Set of two Baluch balishts, or cushions from, Afghanistan. The previous owner had them stuffed as to look like pillows with rough ... read more

Finely woven pile-less woolen Tibetan textile of indeterminate use, although it has been suggested that these types are some form of horse

Fossilised wood carved into a cut-off bamboo clump and stained to resemble black bamboo. Japan, late Meiji Period, c1900 / very early ... read more

Finnish ryijy (or in Swedish 'rya') rug with totemic designs in the border and central rectangle and silk highlights in the white ... read more

Finnish ryijy (or in Swedish 'rya') entitled ‘Liekit’ (in English ‘flames’). Ryijy's / rya's are traditional Scandinavian wool rugs with a long ... read more

Rare matched pair of Tibetan gabney (or cushions) in original condition as they came out of Tibet circa 1972. (The inner padding ... read more

a rare intact set of saddle carpets, i.e.  both for under and above the saddle, made in the Ningxia region of China ... read more

Beautiful, extremely soft, three paneled Tibetan masho – or above-saddle carpet - tightly woven using the tsuktruk method. It is constructed entirely ... read more

The end fragment of a longer carpet, most likely made in the Baotou-Suiyuan region of China circa the early 1900’s, and which ... read more

Masterful design execution and wonderful natural indigo dyes went in to the making of this Tibetan Makden. It has a central floral ... read more

Striking Finnish ryijy by Tellervo Strommer (1926 - 2017), entitled Loitsu (or ‘Spell’ in English) and made in 1958 at Kotiteollisuusopisto (in ... read more