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  • Arab Baluch rug with very glossy wool and several blues
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Very graphic Baluch mixed technique sofreh. Knotted pile borders, a fine geometric repeat flat-woven weft float brocade field with kilim ends. Saturated ... read more
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  • 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
    price:  $650 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Book : Ikat, Silks of Central Asian (The Guido Goldman collection) Copiously illustrated with quality photography, very fancy case.
    price:  $150 including domestic media mail shipping. contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Tibetan square with a diamond design, 19th century?, tie-dyed textile strip sewn onto back
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • antique Tibetan square, several indigo blues and intriguing integration of the corner-pieces with the central medallion, 61x56cm
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch prayer rug, dark and mysterious with super glossy wool. Very unusual design variant. Exceptionally nice flatwoven ends.
    price:  $2300 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Antique Khotan saf, soft colors, soft wool, cool drawing. Size is 6'3"x3'1"
    price:  $550 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Ningxia seating square with a double dorje / tantric thunderbolt and central yin / yang symbol against an intense yellow ground. Commissioned ... read more
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  • Tibetan small rug or saddle top with a camel ground, abrashed blue vine-scroll and a red central quatrefoil medallion. Nice auspicious bat-like ... read more
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  • Large (over 3 feet) double dorje seating square. 18th century, perhaps Ningxia or another Chinese weaving center made for the Tibetan market. ... read more
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  • 18th century Chinese Ningxia seating square with lotus flower design.
    price:  SOLD

  • Small white-ground Chinese Ningxia rug, fine weave and elegant drawing, reminiscent of ceramics
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  • Fabulous Kangxi era Ningxia Chinese rug, circa 1700. 4'5"x6'2". Small format classical Chinese piece with spectacular drawing.
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  • Tiger pelt rug strip, Chinese weaving center for the Tibetan market, circa 1920 size is about 16"x40"
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  • Classic East Anatolian Malatya area bag with an unusual eight-pointed star in octagon design. Pearl roundels? (Probably not but it is reminiscent)
    price:  $350 more info... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Ottoman embroidery from Thrace. 19"x19"
    price:  $200

  • Baluch sofreh with birds
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  • Lush blue-ground Timuri Baluch prayer rug. Great wool, vibrant natural color, super handle, very good condition with preserved flat-woven ends. Small silk ... read more
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  • Complete Baluch khorjin with a very unusual design integrating minakhani flowers with a central Memling medallion. All good colors and in good ... read more
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  • Very graphic camel ground Baluch rug with unusual geometric botehs arranged in a subtle but sophisticated repeat, creating diagonal negative space that ... read more
    price:  $550 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch rug with a small-scale embroidered design rendered in pile. Narrow border, uncommon type, 4x6ish
    price:  $350

  • Transylvanian type Ottoman prayer rug. Mounted and conserved. Former Jim Dixon collection
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  • Large, very rustic / tribal Baluch prayer rug. Amazingly soft wool, all good colors.verx unusual back. Lots of Aubergine! Western Afghanistan, perhaps ... read more
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  • Baluch double-sided flatwoven salt bag, tribal region, Northwest frontier, an old one with great color and execution, old repair in one side ... read more
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  • Double-sided pile Baluch salt bag, Sistan area, great condition complete with goat hair carrying chord, 36x50cm
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  • Square-shaped Baluch rug with a repeat diamond latch-hook design. All good color with a subtle but effective use of to tone. Thick ... read more
    price:  $550

  • Baluch balisht, older Sistan type with botehs, nice, sculptural and thin, fine weave and saturated color.
    price:  $200 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch balisht, Sistan type with camel wool kilim back. Older than most, a good one.
    price:  $250 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Complete antique Baluch balisht. Great wool , saturated natural color, complete striped back and gist hair fasteners still intact.
    price:  $650 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Central Anatolian yastik, nice type
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  • Baluch shrubs in lattice bag, nice and diverse color, dark weft, larger size than most (30"x24").There are a few knots on blue ... read more
    price:  $350 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch camel ground rug with an asmalyk design and minakhani border. Camel warp as well. Size is about 3'6"x 7".
    price:  POR

  • Blasted but Beautiful Ersari / Middle Amu Darya ikat inspired Central Asian chuval. Rough condition but old and thin with a soulful ... read more
    price:  $250

  • An early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan pastiche carpet, reduced in length. Safavid era, circa 1600. a later version of this ... read more
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  • Detail from an early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan carpet. Safavid era, circa 1600.
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  • 'Timuri' type Baluch prayer rug, nice colors and excellent condition.
    price:  Inexpensive

  • Zig-zaggy diamond Baluch with fantastic blue
    price:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Bashir or Uzbek rug with an ikat design (ak kymak). Fragmented, mounted, and conserved, 3'1"x4'5"
    price:  $850

  • Shahsevan pile bag face, two reds, two blues, green and gold. Red wefted, all natural color, good age
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  • Turkmen Middle Amu Darya region torba or trapping with an ikat derived field and stylized floral border. 4'0"x1'7"
    price:  $350

  • Complete Timuri Baluh bag (one half of a Khorjin) with a fantastic flat-woven back. The bag face has copious highlights using white ... read more
    price:  $285 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Unusual blue-ground Baluch rug with large-scale boteh design. Timuri? Yaqub Khani? Something else?
    price:  $750 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Jaf Kurd bag face, thick, soft, lustrous wool, good condition
    price:  $350 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • so-called 'Golden Triangle' group carpet. Woven arguably in either Northwest Persia or Eastern Anatolia at a time when the border between these ... read more
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  • Shahsevan reverse sumak panel,Hashtrud Miyaneh region. Nice older example with two blues, two refs, two purples, etc. missing one border
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  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bagface. Fantastic saturated colors against a slightly corrosive slate-green ground. Amazing wool. Super yummy.
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  • Large square Jaf Kurd bag, slightly unusual layout with a particularly good white s narrow border. 3'5"x2'10"
    price:  $850 contact benbanayan@gmail.com