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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • very very old Khotan or Gansu polka dot fragment with archaic border
    price:  SOLD

  • Caucasian Kuba rug, old, superlative color, lots of wear. 3'6"x5'6"ish
    price:  on request

  • Velvety Khorosan Baluch bird bag. 5x5 birds, great condition.
    price:  SOLD

  • Northwest Persian runner with all natural dyes including 4 blues and undyed camel wool. 2'6"x8'8", great size.
    price:  SOLD

  • 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

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish Sauj Bulagh rug with step diamonds, nice color with aubergine.
    price:  POR

  • 'Timuri' type Baluch prayer rug, nice colors and excellent condition.
    price:  Inexpensive

  • Quarky Southwest Persian Qashqai bagfaces, soft wool, diverse color. Rounded top of central diamond, concaved bottom.
    price:  SOLD

  • Central Asian Turkmen chuval with an ikat 'aq qaymaq' design. Great scale!
    price:  SOLD

  • Classic Baluch star bag. Old, worn, at least one highlight with cochineal silk. The 4eal deal. 2'10"x2'2"
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch balisht or poshti with a hexagonal repeat rarely seen in this small ilongated format. Vibrant red, 2 blues, 2 purples, 2 ... read more
    price:  SOLD

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

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bagface with fantastic color and wool and an unusual central medallion design
    price:  SOLD

  • Ersari? Turkmen Guli-Gul Main Carpet. Wear is pretty much as it appears in the images. One side has significant loss to the ... read more
    price:  $550 plus shipping OBO

  • Kuba Perepedil rug, white ground, great condition.
    price:  SOLD

  • Assyrian jacket, eastern Syria or perhaps northern Iraq. Great condition, natural colors and using portions of metal thread. a fabulous ethnographic piece.
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch Runner, great natural colors, woven like a giant long bagface with a repeat mosaic like pattern of eight-pointed stars in a ... read more
    price:  $950

  • East Anatolian Kurdish rug fragment. Super vibrant madder. mounted and conserved.
    price:  $1500

  • Early minakhani border fragment from a late 18th century jufti knotted Khorosan or Herat rug. 2'0"x1'11"
    price:  SOLD

  • Ladik Prayer Rug with Double-Columns as well as Double Spandrels. Rare and beautiful white ground and exceptional aubergine and red spandrels. circa ... read more
    price:  $3000

  • 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
    price:  POR

  • Rabat Moroccan gallery rug, all natural colors, mid 19th. century?
    price:  POR

  • Remarkable colorful Sauj Bolagh Kurdish long rug with a step diamond field and fascinating border
    price:  SOLD

  • Afshar bagface, great color, wool, and handle
    price:  $475

  • Antique Greek embroidery, probably Salonica / Thessaloniki
    price:  POR

  • Shahsevan reverse sumak bagface, aksu/shrub variant design with great color range including, oxblood, 3 blues, rose, pistachio, but also a tad of ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Small antique Tibetan rug, all natural colors
    price:  SOLD

  • Central Asian Boogie Woogie, Small Middle Amu Darya area / Bashir Turkmen rug with polka-dots, perhaps influenced by Chinese models? Very graphic ... read more

  • Large colorful Baluch shrub bag. While the vast majority of Baluch bags with this design are from Khorosan and generally on the ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Large, super-colorful East Anatolian Holbein derived rug fragment. Mounted and ready to go. Exceptional wool. apx. 47"x30"
    price:  SOLD

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

  • Pair of small pile Shahsevan bags with sumak derived designs. Excellent color and super soft wool. One is about 17"x17.5" and the ... read more
    price:  POR

  • early 'vase carpet-esque' Josheghan fragment strip including borders and field.
    price:  SOLD

  • Small camel ground Baluch rug with stylized pallettes. Very fancy with highlights in white cotton pile, yellow wool pile (not camel), and ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Afshar bagface with an unusual field and a floral border, all wool, 2'6"x1'11"
    price:  $400 US domestic

  • Ottoman era Greek embroidery fragment. Epirus, 18th / 19th century.
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch octagon star bag face with animal trains and copious silk highlights. 28"x24" This piece has a great presence and displays well. Some ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Jaf Kurd bagface, 24"x21, soft lustrous wool and saturated color with a single white elongated diamond in the center. There is a ... read more
    price:  $350

  • The following piece along with another have gone missing from a friend's shop in New York. Please let me know if you ... read more
    price:  MISSING

  • The following piece along with another have gone missing from a friend's shop in New York. Please let me know if you ... read more
    price:  MISSING

  • Afahar chanteh, all good colors, 3/4 of bottom border rewoven
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch bird bag face with green and blue birds with polka dots. Super plush, soft, fluffy wool. Very appealing. But it now or ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Freaky-fine Baluch flatweave, almost like a sheet of paper or canvas. Very difficult to photograph. White cotton highlights, yarn as thin as ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • colorful fluffy Jaf Kurd bagface. Super soft wool, borders cut top and bottom. Nice thing. 23"x 38" /
    price:  SOLD

  • Konya yastik with a variant of a Holbein gul, front and back images. Condition is a little rough with some kashmiring of ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Timuri Baluch bagface with shrubs in a lattice, super polychromatic blue.
    price:  SOLD

  • Large (5'1" x 8'3" 155x252cm) East Anatolian Yatak with harshang and other ornament (alien cyclopses?)
    price:  SOLD

  • Bergama area Anatolian Turkish rug, an early rendition of this uncommon type with saturated color and open drawing, silk knots in the ... read more
    price:  SOLD