Ben Banayan

Lookit, sir, if I could get ahold of some of that stuff you were interested in, would you be interested in some of it?

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Those things... Old, yeah.

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Various pieces of various types.

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Rug & Textile Evening- The de Young Museum: A joint fund-raiser organized by artaa and the Department of Textile Arts at the de ... read more

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ARTS / SF RUG WEEK October 11-17
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Mini Yomut Asmalyk
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Mini Yomut Asmalyk (Ravaged by wolves?) All good colors. Condition issues. Size ... read more

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Mbuti Pygmy Bark Cloth with a scale pattern link

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see it at ARTS (Antique Rug & Textile Show) during San Francisco Rug Week, October 11-17
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Small Turkmen Silk Pouch with what looks like the depiction of a frog in green. The back is rather nice too. Complete ... read more

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Central African (Congo) Bark Cloth of the Mbuti (?) Pygymy people

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Ersari guli-gul fragment

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Middle Amu Darya rug or bag fragment with both guls and ikat design

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Lakai Uzbek embroidery roundel fragments. Probably from the same textile, they look like large coasters. Classic natural colors. 3/4 of them are ... read more

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Tekke Turkmen embroidered band. Very fine. Very colorful with several blues, yellow, orange and insect red. Embroidered on a hand-woven green silk.

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Tekke Turkmen embroidered strip on a deep indigo ground. Bold design accomplished with a very fine technique. 111x10cm

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Large Uzbek Bagface 2'5"x2'11" 74x88cm. Natural un-dyed brown, nice sea-green.

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Arab Baluch Rug, camel ground with leaves, glossy wool, great color including several blues and blue-greens. Asymmetric open right. 4 chord goat ... read more

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Small Turkmen Animal Ornament, embroidered with an interesting (perhaps coincidental) rendition of a Memling gul.

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small Turkmen Animal Ornament from a Camel Trapping made of a very old Central Asian ikat

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inexpensive
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small Turkmen embroidered pouch. Probably Chodor or Yomut.

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very affordable
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Chodor Turkmen embroidered head ornament. Silk floss on wool.

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Resist-dyed bark cloth, Central Africa (Congo) Baka? Pygmy people

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Ottoman style Algerian embroidery fragment circa 1800 or perhaps 18th century. Great color including a double dyed purple.

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Central Asian Kyrgyz Shyrdak square. Madder red and indigo blue dyed and pieced felt.

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Central Anatolian Karaman Medallion carpet incorporating many Northwest Persian Safavid models link

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see it at ARTS (Antique Rug & Textile Show) during San Francisco Rug Week, October 11-17
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Antique Baluch Saddle with Birds. All natural colors including a deep plum ground with very soft and lush wool pile. Boucher ascribed ... read more

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East Anatolian Striped Kilim Chuval with central bands of sumak. Excellent almost Andean-like handle. 5'3"x3' 160x91cm

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Large Shirvan rug fragment. Probably about 3/4 of the total piece. Finely woven with strong saturated color. Some old repair to the ... read more

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Central Anatolian Prayer Rug Fragment circa 1800 SOLD
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Middle Amu Darya Turkmen Gul Rug Fragment SOLD
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Fantastic yellow and green. This is from what must have been a great ... read more
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Small Old Tekke fragment SOLD
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Probably from a main carpet or perhaps a torba. Large nicely drawn torba guls with great ... read more
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Large Central Anatolian Karaman Kilim, Vibrant vegetal colors including purple and greens. Some scattered restoration. Size is 61"x151"

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Antique Colorful Baluch Balisht, Western Afghanistan. Nice blue-green ground and reds.

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$250
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Yomut Chuval

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Baluch Octagon Star Bag, better than average. conserved and stabilized as can be seen from back photo.

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not bad at all
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Saryk Chuval, very fancy with cotton whites and insect dye

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Very Rare, Very Old Complete Khorosan Quchan Kurd? ( or perhaps Khorosan Afshar ? )Double Saddle Bags (Khorjin). Bagfaces are done in ... read more

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Uzbek Embroidered Horse Cover. Quite complete with mostly corroded black silk floss.

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Small East Anatolian Kilim with Cotton White Ground

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Large Anatolian Elibilinde Kilim Half with an unusually darker autumnal color palette. Great scale and patina. While not paper thin, this piece ... read more

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17th Century Safavid Persian Kerman Vase Carpet Fragment. (Actually, two fragments sewn together.) worn but beautiful. 30"x30" (76x76cm)

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Pile South Caucasian Mafrash Panel with Turkmen Tent-Band and Saj Bulagh References. Full Pile, great natural color and chemcheh center. Constructed with ... read more

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Small Chinese Ningshia Throne Back. fluffy, great scale and nicely drawn (negative space in the center forms a butterfly), top missing. 19"x21"

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Tekke Long Rug, All colors are good, wool is soft and there are some silk highlights. Complete but with areas of wear ... read more

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$650
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Old Sumak with a double eagle and stars center

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Afshar Sumak Bag Face, cotton whites

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Luri Bakhtiari Sumak Panel. Much better than average. Bird Border, very Luristan Bronzish. 21"x18"

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Kurdish Chuval, Northwest Persian perhaps Kermanshah area? Great color intensity and range. Older than most. (3'9"x 3'2") 114x96cm

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Anatolian Kilim Fragment with particularly pleasing purples. Central Anatolia, circa 1800 (2'8"x4'10") 81x147cm. All Colors Are Excellent.

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Luscious Arab Baluch Rug with Floating Chemches. Saturated soft wool with all natural colors. Good color shift from vibrant madder red to ... read more

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$750
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Turkmen Ensi, probably Kizyl Ayak or Ersari, Very soft wool, interesting drawing, natural colors. Field madder color seems slightly corrosive, browns are ... read more

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Old Afshar Rug , 3rd quarter 19th century, Nice sumak ends, selvedges are missing and there is scattered re-piling in the field. ... read more

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Shahsavan Interpretation of the Pazaryk Carpet? Wool pile on a mostly cotton (hand-spun) foundation. All natural colors. Bold. Fascinating.

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