Ben Banayan

Art Deco Chinese rug with foliage and butterflies. 3'8"x5'10"

Starburst Caucasian Zeichur rug with a dark corroded ground, very colorful with a sculptural effect.

An unusual East Anatolian rug with columns of palmettes integrated into a large-scale striped textile design, great wool and color

Classic East Anatolian Malatya area bag with an unusual eight-pointed star in octagon design. Pearl roundels? (Probably not but it is reminiscent)

East Anatolian Kurdish divan cover. Red-wefted group with great color including slate blues and greens, salmon, and good. fragmented into three pieces, ... read more

Baluch balisht, Sistan type with camel wool kilim back. Older than most, a good one.

Middle Amu Darya region Turkmen or Uzbek ensi. Older than most of this type. Large scale with bold yet in abbreviated drawing. ... read more

Baluch shrubs in lattice bag, nice and diverse color, dark wet, larger size than most

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

Unusual tree variant Baluch camel ground prayer rug (one of about half a dozen known examples)

Old East Anatolian rug fragment, likely Kurdish

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

Baluch sofreh with birds

Baluch Timuri type prayer rug with a very rare rendition of abstracted geometric repeating shrubs. Leaves if light blue at the top, ... read more

Pair of complete green-ground Baluch khorjin with aubergine. Western Afghanistan, color is really good and difficult to capture. Subtle idiosyncratic drawing improvisations ... read more

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

Baluch rug with serrated ashik-like tile design and a leaf border. Several blues, nice color in general. Goat hair side selvedge. 3'6"x6'3"

Oldest of this type around. Large Kizyl Ayak Turkmen chuval, very old with a great weave, floppy handle, great spacing, and rich ... read more

19th century Tibetan square, several indigo blues and intriguing integration of the corner-pieces with the central medallion, 61x56cm

Zig-zaggy diamond Baluch with fantastic blue

Masculine Sevan? Kazak, worn but actually quite a nice antique rug with personality, color, and a nice handle. 4'4"x7'4"

Baluch multi-flatweave technique salt bag with a particularly finely rendered striped weft brocaded field. Not common, a good thing.

Complete sumak khorjin double saddle bag set. Diverse color with a little bit of an orange that seems iffy.