Tibetan takyeb (pack animal forehead ‘decoration’) featuring a large flower - surrounded by ‘wish-fulfilling’ flaming jewels in the main field - emanating ... read more
Tibetan takyeb (pack animal forehead ‘decoration’) with a geometric design and the green stems of several flowers interwoven lattice-like though it. Hand ... read more
Mesmerizing early 1900’s Tibetan khaden with the so-called 'gau box' or amulet design throughout the main field. Coloured with only two blues ... read more
Tibetan takyeb (pack animal forehead ‘decoration’) showing flowers emanating from a vase filled with flaming jewels. Hand spun wool warp and weft, ... read more
Finely hand-woven four paneled raw silk Bhutanese blanket (i.e. four individually woven strips or panels sewn together post weaving) made with all ... read more
Beautiful 'butterfly' shaped under-saddle carpet from Tibet. The outer main border is of interlinked floral trellis work and has a peacock roundel ... read more
Vintage Chinese five dragon 'Beijing' carpet with luxurious super-soft thick silky pile. This carpet was made circa the mid 1900’s, probably the ... read more
book: Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari: Village, Workshop and Nomadic Rugs of Western Persia by Peter Willborg (published 2002). English text. Very important ... read more
This khagangma, or Tibetan seating square, is simply nothing short of an extraordinary example of Tibetan woven art. Stunningly beautiful, relatively large ... read more
Asian art. Elaborately decorated museum quality gilded brass Newari oil lamp known as a Sukunda, hand crafted by an exceptionally gifted artisan ... read more
Book. Lion-Dogs Hundred Antiques: Classical Chinese Carpets 1. Various chapters are authored by Michael Franses, Gary Dickinson, and Hwee Lie; with a ... read more
Beautiful richly saturated warp-faced-back large over-saddle carpet or 'masho', presumably from the Wangden valley region of Tibet, with two archaic mandala-like medallions ... read more
ikat: Silks of Central Asia - The Guido Goldman Collection by Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Hale (slip-cased edition, published 1997). Arguably still ... read more
Lustrous Tibetan warp-faced-back under-saddle carpet (makden) woven in the Wangden valley region of Tibet some time in the mid to latter half ... read more
Tibetan three paneled checkered tsuktruk, the three individual strips having been woven separately on a narrow loom and then sewn together to ... read more
Aesthetically pleasing, uncluttered and very well balanced pictorial Chinese carpet featuring a Buddhist lama (i.e. ‘priest’) made originally to be wall-hung in ... read more
Large, beautiful, naturally dyed Ersari Turkoman hand woven 'main carpet' from the later half of the 19th century. Originally made somewhere in ... read more
Complete two piece set of Tibetan saddle carpets with a matched design, that is both the under-saddle (makden) and over-saddle (masho) carpets, ... read more
Finnish long pile woolen ryijy (pronounced roo-e-you), or 'rug' in English, woven circa 1850 or before in the traditional old rural style ... read more
Scandinavia. Finnish ryijy. Finnish long-pile one piece woolen ryijy (pronounced roo-e-you), or 'rug' in English, woven in the early 20th century. Ryijy's ... read more
Beautiful late 19th century inner Mongolian (i.e. the Baotou - Suiyuan region) 'wasp-wasted' under-saddle carpet with all natural dyes in original ‘as ... read more
Two seating squares (sometimes referred to as ‘mediation’ squares / carpets) that have almost certainly come from a much longer Tibetan ‘runner’ ... read more
