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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Rare unusual Khotan rug with a seldomly seen central medallion variant and corner pieces. Fret guard border is drawn very freely with ... read more
    price:  $2200 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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  • Colorful Tibetan khagangma seating square. Elegant drawing, older type with some wear, all natural dyes.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Tibetan rug with auspicious bats and cloudbands. Likely based in a Chinese textile design. Dramatic abrash, all natural dyes, great condition
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small fragment from a Chinese silk kesi Probably part of the framed textile mounting of a Tibetan tanka China, 17th or 18th century
    price:  $1500 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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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  • Small Chinese Ningxia square with clouds in the border and butterflies in the corners of the field.
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  • Small Tibetan rug or saddle top. Finer than most, proper 19th century piece
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Fabulous Kangxi era Ningxia Chinese rug, circa 1700. 4'5"x6'2". Small format classical Chinese piece with spectacular drawing.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Six gul Tekke torba, complete with original back, velvety pile, super saturated natural color
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  • Small Gansu Chinese square with a fret medallion and butterflies
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  • Geometric Ningxia seating square, 18th century
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  • Tibetan tiger pelt rug strip, circa 1900 size is about 16"x40"
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Good rug bad picture, Baluch Mushwani type prayer rug, all natural colors, (can't quite get them right in photos) lots of aubergine, ... read more
    price:  $350

  • 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

  • Fine weave Timuri Yaqub Khani Baluch rug with stripes and botehs, saturated all natural color. a very nice thing.
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  • Smaller Baluch main carpet. Good age, color graphics, and handle.
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  • 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
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small vamel ground Baluch prayer rug. Rustic from Western Afghanistan.
    price:  $150 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small rustic Arab Baluch. Good colors, goat hair, oxidized brown. Good thing for cheap.
    price:  $250 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Arab Baluch rug with camel ground. Pink is cochineal. The orange is hot. Njce usable antique piece. 4'0x6'7"
    price:  $350

  • Baluch rug with serrated ashik-like tile design and a leaf border. Several blues, nice color in general. Goat hair side selvedge. 3'6"x6'3" ... read more
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Unusual tree variant Baluch camel ground prayer rug (one of about half a dozen known examples)
    price:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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

  • Small cinnamon ground Baluch rug with a 'scorpion' boteh field.
    price:  $450

  • 18th century Ionian Greek island embroidery, section of a cuff with an Italianate oak leaf and acorn meander. Probably Ionian Islands, Corfu? or ... read more
    price:  $450... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Crisply drawn Camel Ground Baluch Prayer Rug with elongated stylized hands, depressed warp Khorosan type. Dated Baluch prayer rug, a piece from ... read more
    price:  $650 benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Unusual Baluch prayer rug with dark natural undyed camel wool and saturated natural dyes. An eccentric rendering of a classic design type ... read more
    price:  SOLD

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

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish rug with an unusual octagon and diamond field design.Very nice color including two greens and aubergine. Worn but still ... read more
    price:  I don't think it is very expensive. Contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Inscribed Shahsevan sumak band with Memling guls and stars. Measures about 227x16cm including the macrame end finishes. The length of the sumak ... read more
    price:  SOLD

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

  • Old, elegant, banded central Anatolian kilim. Excellent refined color.
    price:  SOLD

  • Fakhralo Kazak rug with Sevan influences. Dated 1310 (1892). All good colors, lustrous wool, nice handle. 4'6"x5:7"
    price:  SOLD

  • Middle Amu Darya carpet with an unusual and compelling floral lattice design.
    price:  POR benbana@gmail.com

  • 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