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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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  • 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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  • Amu Darya Ersari Chuval with an ikat design. Large size, good condition but without the original selvedge. (selvedges are over-rated anyway)
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  • Turkmen Chuval. Perhaps Ersari, open left like a Salor. White warps, Soft floppy handle, good color, nice negative space between the guls. ... read more
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  • Tibetan ' Wangden ' 'warp-back' square with double Dorje / Vajra Tantric thunderbolts making a quatrafoil in the center. Two greens. The ... read more
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    $550

  • "i do not have a mill with willow trees. i have a horse and a whip. i will kill you and go." ... read more
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  • Camel-Ground Baluch rug . Perhaps Bahluli according to recent research. (see the current issue of Hali) Colorful latch-hook border (interestingly, there are ... read more
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    SOLD

  • Super Veramin Bagface with a pair of chuval guls. Nice format, great condition. 41"x17" (105x44cm)
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    on request

  • Japanese Futonji Panel depicting a Baku (獏 or 貘?), an elephant-trunked supernatural nightmare-devouring spirit. Beautifully drawn indigo dyed cotton. Meiji period, probably ... read more
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    $1250

  • Central Asian Main Carpet with large guls. Some features resemble Turkmen weavings from the Middle Amu Darya region but the construction of ... read more
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish Rug with a Holbein derived design. All natural colors with both insect and madder reds. a pleasing palette. Brown ... read more

  • Baluch rug with a tile field and minakhani floral border. a good looking rug with nice colors, in generally good shape but ... read more
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  • Minakhani Baluch Rug, Depressed warp Khorossan type. Very finely drawn with vivid color and finer than most of this genre. The skirts ... read more
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  • Stacked Minkhani design Baluch. Good wool, good colors,slate blues and deep red and brick reds, good condition, sides intact. 5'1"x2'11"
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    $450

  • Tree Baluch with medallion center. Probably Khorossan. Two blues, intact kilim ends, sides are there but need some help. 5'1"x3'2"
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    $650

  • Snow-flake Baluch. Very soft wool. Looks like an Arab piece but knots are open left. 4'5" x 2'8"

  • Miniature Minimalist South Persian Kilim with a natural abrashed camel ground and pistachio green border. Perhaps a small sofreh, cover or bread ... read more
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  • Large Worn Khamseh with birds and trees. Good colors, soft South Persian wool and condition issues. 9'8"x5'3"
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    $450

  • Anatolian Kilim Half, many colors, much wear, cotton and wool white, 4 browns (dyed and natural) madder reds, insect red, 2 pinks, ... read more
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    $575

  • Worn Old Anatolian Prayer Rug. Probably Ghiordes, 18th century. Lots of lazy lines. White cotton pile outlines. Red wefted except in the ... read more
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    more or less than you might think

  • Antique Baluch Prayer Rug. Timuri type with dark inky blues. natural colors and soft Baluchi wool. Needs a bath. Has rip in ... read more
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    $250

  • Smashed but Fantastic Anatolian Prayer Rug. Mudjur / Kirshehir type with super-saturated colors including vibrant red and blue, true aubergine, two greens ... read more
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  • South Caucasian Kuba Bijov Rug. Very colorful with saturated natural dyes but with a corroded out black-brown field consisting of peculiar floral ... read more

  • Middle Amu Darya / Bashir Chuval . Ikat with Blossoms. 5'1" x 3'. Generally good condition with some scattered wear. sides have ... read more
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  • Kizyl Ayak Turkmen Main Carpet. Small format with compartments and Ertmen gul variants. Nicely drawn animal protomes in several colors. Fine weave, ... read more
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  • Fine Camel-Ground Baluch Prayer Rug. Anthropomorphic figure and hands (2'9" x 5'2" apx)
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  • Persian Tribal Kilim. Veramin / Afshar 54" x 73"
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  • Mystery Rug Fragment
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  • Large Central Asian Chuval. Probably not Turkmen. a similar piece in the Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg has been described by Elena ... read more
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  • Enigmatic Baluch weaving. Probably a Poshti but perhaps some other sort of bag or bridge. It is symmetrically knotted using a design ... read more
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    out on approval

  • Ersari / Bashir Minakhani torba fragment. Great wool and colors with use of yellow and greens. (The Reds are more vibrant in ... read more
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  • Northwest Persian , probably Kurdish, Bagface with botehs. Good condition and feel.
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  • Small Yomut 7-sided Asmalyk. Good condition, All natural colors but with a faded yellow that seems stronger on the back. (25" x16")
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    $2000 or close to it

  • Baluch Rug with Memling gul field and several reds. Some condition issues including a hole in the field which has been backed ... read more
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    $255

  • Anatolian Jajim (cicim). Good age, color and drawing. Former Frauenknecht piece and published in "Anatolische Kelims". (43" x 53")
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  • South Caucasian Flatwoven Bags. Small, Fine, Colorful. (24" x10")

  • Luri - Bakhtiari sumak bag with a pile bottom. Nice row of red animal heads on the bottom of the blue field. ... read more
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    $400

  • Afghan group Baluch Bagface. Great colors with some light blue cotton pile. This piece is woven with asymmetrical knots open left, on ... read more
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    no longer for sale

  • Large Fragment of a Jaf Kurd Rug

  • Caucasian Blossom or Dragon Carpet Fragment. Great purple and green and very graphic border (2'0'' x 1'5'')
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    SOLD

  • Chinese Ninghsia Mat. Roundel on a square textile patterned back with border and corner-pieces. Very attractive and tactile. Mid 19th century?

  • Fragment of an old and great Yomud kepse gul carpet with rich color including super saturated green and blue-green. Great handle, ... read more
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  • 'Arab Baluch' Bagface from Khorossan. 19th century. Former Anne Halley Collection piece. asymmetrical knots open right with highlights in purple and green ... read more
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  • Esoteric, Eccentric and Fantastic Central Asian Amu Darya area fragment. Superlative color with some yellow chemcheh minors, a few Memling minors (blue ... read more
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  • Tibetan saddle top with an insect red or madder ground. Nice ashik-looking quatrefoil medallion and vegetal border. All natural colors. Sometime in ... read more
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  • Cute Northwest Persian Kurdish Shrub Rug with little animals in the field. Clear colors including purple, greens, yellow and blue. 6'10" x ... read more
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    $250