Brian MacDonald

Brian MacDonald has been dealing in antique tribal rugs and decorative carpets since 1979 and continues to offer a select and exquisite inventory of antique rugs and dowry bags - mainly from the nomadic tribes and villages of Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan and Central Asia as well as large decorative carpets.
Brian lived and worked in Iran from 1972 to 1977, spending the best part of a year of this time with two tribal groups, the Afshar of Kerman and the Qashqa'i of Fars and has travelled extensively in Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, returning to Iran in recent years, travelling and collecting amongst the Bakhtiyari, Qashqa'i and Shahsavan tribes.

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    ‘Persische Flachgewebe’ by Hans e. Pohl-Schillings. German and English text. Very good condition. Price plus shipping.
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    price:  £20.00

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    ‘Antike Teppiche 1987-1988’ by Frank Bausback. German text throughout. Very good condition. Price plus shipping.
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    price:  £25.00

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    ‘Orientteppiche’ Band 5: Kelims by Taher Sabahi. In excellent condition. Price plus shipping.
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    price:  £35.00

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    ‘Orientteppiche’ by Taher Sabahi, Band 5: Kilims. Excellent condition.
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    price:  £40 plus shipping

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    ‘Textiles of Baluchistan’ by m.g. Konieczny. Important study of the weavings of the various Baluchi tribes in the country of Baluchistan. Good condition.
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    ‘Oriental Carpets’ by Ulrich Schurmann, published by Octopus Books Limited with 124 colour plates. Good condition.
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    Superb Afshar carpet 2.56m x 1.47m in excellent overall pile condition and retaining its long, plain-weave skirts each end.
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    Great looking Luri-Bakhtiari Gabbeh 2.61m x 1.32m (8' 7" x 4' 4") in excellent, lustrous pile condition.
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    Yomut Turkmen Chuval-face, second half 19th century in very good overall condition albeit with two very small areas of discolouration - 1.07 ... read more
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    Beautiful, excellent condition Bijar rug 2.34 x 1.38m (7' 8" x 4' 6").
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    Early Baluch bagface with beautiful use of aubergine and light-blue.
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    Feraghan region horse-cover 1.63 x 1.18m (5' 4" x 3' 10"). Several old repairs but would make a most attractive wall-hanging. Price reflected in
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    Interesting and unusual 19th century Kurdish rug in good but evenly-low pile all over. Great natural colours and fairly coarse weave - a ... read more
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    Attractive Teke rug with all-over ‘aina-gul’ in evenly low pile.
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    summer sale time and first offer from my website is a lovely red Daulautabad Afghan rug 2.13m x 1.23m (7' x 4') ... read more
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    Lovely early Khorassan Baluch just arrived in good overall condition bar the usual corroded dark-brown dye and sadly damaged chevron kilim ends, ... read more
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    Baluch saddlebag-face in good overall condition.
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    a complete Baluch camel neck-band in excellent full-pile condition and with highlights of silk throughout.
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    Rare and beautiful 19th century Timuri namakdan with deep indigo-blue field and a wonderful use of green in the outer ... read more
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    a Baluch khorjin enjoying the Cotswold sun today. It's wonderful to see these deep, sumptuous colours glowing in the sunshine, where they ... read more
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    Rare and interesting plain-weave and soumak prayer-rug made by Kordi tribes in the Quchan region of north-east Iran circa 1900. In excellent ... read more
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    Stunning Dosmealti rug with turquoise ground, evenly-low pile all over. Extremely visual and attractive rug - 1.78m x 1.17m (5' 10" x ... read more
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    Baluch rug with overall design of Turkmen 'ayna' guls in full pile with complete plain-weave skirts - 2.44m x 1.17m (8' 0" ... read more
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    Baluch prayer-rug with natural camel-hair field depicting a stylised 'tree-of-life' in very good overall condition. 1.73 x 0.92m (5' 8" x 3'
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    Lovely Yomut Turkmen chuval with attractive elem in very good condition - 1.22 x 0.79m (4' 0" x 2' 7").
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    Baluch balisht in excellent condition, complete with plain-weave back - 89 x 43cm (2' 11" x 1' 5").
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    Luri-Bakhtiari khorjin in very good condition, complete with plain-weave back in narrow horizonal bands of colour - 1.02 x 0.56m (3' 4" ... read more
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    Attractive Kordi soumak panel, Quchan region of north-east Persia circa 1900. 69 x 36cm (2'3" x 1' 2").
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    Baluch main carpet in good overall condition - 2.87 x 1.78m (9' 5" x 5' 10").
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    Timuri main carpet in very good overall condition with exceptionally beautiful complete chevron plain-weave skirts - last quarter 19th century - 3.05 ... read more
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    This is a very good and collectable Yomut 'dyrnak gul' carpet with excellent natural colours and a lovely use of green in ... read more
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    This is a very attractive rug of the Afshar tribes from Kerman Province, southern Persia circa 1900 in excellent natural colours and ... read more
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    Lovely Khamseh Confederacy rug, Baharlu tribe, in very good overall pile and condition. 1.58 x 1.27m (5' 2" x 4' 2").
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    Attractive Teke Turkmen chuval in nice overall condition with replaced selvedges. 1.12 x 0.61m (3' 8" x 2' 0").
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    Rare embroidered Baluchi rifle-cover in very good condition.
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    Charming Afshar vanity-bag with stylized 'tree' design - same both sides - in very good condition. 28cm x 23cm (11" x 9").
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    Powerful Shahsevan of Karadag reverse soumack mafrash side panel in very good condition - 78cm x 33cm (2' 7" x 1' 11").
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    Unusual antique Luri rug of the Hayat Davood region, western Persia, incorporating charming stylized male and female nomads, in very good overall ... read more
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    a good 19th century Ersary Turkmen engsi in good overall condition - some minor repairs and slight wear in places - reflected ... read more
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    Unusual Timuri prayer-rug with glowing shades of indigo-blue, green and aubergine with highlights of silk and yellow-cotton throughout - circa 1900 and ... read more
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    Fabulous indigo-blue, full-pile, glossy wool Timuri rug in excellent condition and complete with brocaded skirts circa 1890-1900. 1.98m x 1.10m (6' 6" ... read more
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    Verneh - possibly Kordi tribes of the Quchan region in very good condition - 2.50 x 1.70m.
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    Anatolian flat-weave made in two parts - possibly Van area - in very good condition 2.09 x 1.66m.
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    Senneh Kilim in good overall condition - 1.93m x 1.07m (6' 4" x 3' 6").
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    Attractive Qashqa'i or Luri bag-face, damaged on the sides but otherwise in full pile - 50cm x 56cm (1' 8" x 1'
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    Attractive East Anatolian Kurdish Kilim woven in two parts and in excellent condition - 2.10 x 1.50m (7' x 5').
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    Lovely small Baluch rug of the Ferdows region, south-east Persia circa 1900. 1.30 x 0.80m (4' 3" x 2' 7").
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    Interesting 'ru asbi' (horse-cover) possibly Khamseh of Zanjan with metal thread woven in as seen in the close-up images 1.40 x 1.20m ... read more
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