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.
- active since December, 27, 2008.
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- link: www.brianmacdonaldantiquerugs.co.uk
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- Benaki Museum of Islamic Art
- Budapest: Ottoman Carpets
- Gulbenkian Museum
- Islamic Carpets. Brooklyn
- Islamic Textiles. Brooklyn
- Konya Museum: Rugs
- MKG, Hamburg
- MMA: Caucasian Carpets
- MMA: Mamluk Carpets
- MMA: Mughal Indian Carpets
- MMA: Ottoman Carpets
- MMA: Safavid Persian Carpets
- MMA: Turkmen Rugs
- McCoy Jones Kilims
- Ottoman textiles. Met
- Philadelphia Museum
- Rugs and Carpets: Berlin
- Seljuqs at the Met
- TIEM, Istanbul: Carpets
- V&A: Classical Carpets
- Vakiflar Carpets: Istanbul
- Baluch Rugs: Indianapolis
- Gallery Exhibitions
- Jaf an Exhibition
- Alberto Levi Gallery
- Andean Textile
- Christie's London: 2016
- Francesca Galloway
- HALI at 40
- ICOC Washington, DC 2018
- Jajims of the Shahsavan
- London Islamic Week April, 2018
- Mongolian Felts
- Navajo Rugs: JB Moore
- Persian Piled Weavings
- SF Tribal & Textile Art Show 2020
- SF Tribal 2019
- Sotheby's: C. Alexander
- Turkish Prayer Rugs
- Turkmen Main Carpets ICOC 2007