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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Baluch star bag with polychromatic blue, a blue-green, and copper / cinnamon ground. Older than most but worn.1 knot of cotton in ... read more
    price:  $225

  • Large, very rustic / tribal Baluch prayer rug. Amazingly soft wool, all good colors.verx unusual back. Lots of Aubergine! Western Afghanistan, perhaps ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Complete Baluch khorjin set, snowflake / blossom design. One of the oldest complete Baluch saddle bags I've ever seen, if not the ... read more
    price:  Appropriately expensive

  • Baluch double-sided flatwoven salt bag, tribal region, Northwest frontier, an old one with great color and execution, old repair in one side ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Double-sided pile Baluch salt bag, Sistan area, great condition complete with goat hair carrying chord, 36x50cm
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Complete antique Baluch balisht. Great wool , saturated natural color, complete striped back and gist hair fasteners still intact.
    price:  $650 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Central Anatolian yastik, nice type
    price:  POR... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Baluch chanteh bag with a very uncommon design. Pile front , flat woven back with some leather
    price:  $550 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch double sided pile small chanteh bag, all good colors, glossy wool. probably Sistan region
    price:  $450 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Khotan rug, good colors, areas of restoration
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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

  • Baluch complete double saddle bag set, a small khorjin or possibly a chanteh set? Sistan area. Silk pile highlights in the center ... read more
    price:  Buy it now or see it at ARTS in San Francisco, Oct 27-29

  • Baluch sofreh with birds
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Dokhtar-i Qazi prayer rug published in Hali 53, exhibited in the 1990 icoc rug fair.
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch camel ground prayer rug with animals, abstracted shrubs, and a Shi'a inscription that reads, 'Allah, Muhammad, Ali, Hassan, Hussein' kilim ends
    price:  $2200

  • Baluch octagon star bag face with animal trains and copious silk highlights. 28"x24" This piece has a great presence and displays well. Some ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Bijar directional niched or prayer rug. Unusual format, great color. 3'10"x4'10"
    price:  contact... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Velvety Khorosan Baluch bird bag. 5x5 birds, great condition.
    price:  SOLD

  • Super soft Qashqai or Khamseh rug, 4'1"x5'0"
    price:  more info... benbnayan@gmail.com

  • Quarky Southwest Persian Qashqai bagfaces, soft wool, diverse color. Rounded top of central diamond, concaved bottom.
    price:  SOLD

  • Super velvety, saturated Turkmen rug fragment with two gul variants; temurchin guls and tauk-nuskka. This is an old one, most probably middle ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Symmetrically knotted Baluch rug with a Mushwani type diamond design. Some wear and old attempts at restoration. Dynamic and fun with nice ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch bird bag face with green and blue birds with polka dots. Super plush, soft, fluffy wool. Very appealing. But it now or ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • East Anatolian Kurdish yastik. This pieces uses several talismanic knots of either horse or possibly human hair in areas of the bottom. ... read more
    price:  $450

  • Ottoman embroidery fragment with classical drawing, likely 17th century, 3'6"x1'6"
    price:  $3200

  • 'Der thrakische Silberschatz aus Rogosen Bulgarien' German text published in Bulgaria with copious color and black and white plates of gold and ... read more
    price:  $20 plus shipping

  • Kirshehir yastik. Fantastic purple, indigo sulphonic
    price:  $750 plus postage

  • Makri rug with double cartouche field.
    price:  POR

  • Freaky-fine Baluch flatweave, almost like a sheet of paper or canvas. Very difficult to photograph. White cotton highlights, yarn as thin as ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Starburst Caucasian Zeichur rug with a dark corroded ground, very colorful with a sculptural effect.
    price:  $850

  • colorful fluffy Jaf Kurd bagface. Super soft wool, borders cut top and bottom. Nice thing. 23"x 38" /
    price:  SOLD

  • Yomut Turkmen asmalyk, nice greens and blues with subtle drawing eccentricities. Cotton in the weft throughout.
    price:  Reasonable

  • Caucasian sumak rug
    price:  On request

  • Bashir or Uzbek rug with an ikat design (ak kymak). Fragmented, mounted, and conserved, 3'1"x4'5"
    price:  $850

  • Worn and whipped rare red-ground Timuri type Baluch rug with a Saryk border. Madder red ground with cochineal highlights. Squarish shape.
    price:  I don't even know any more

  • Timuri Baluch bagface with shrubs in a lattice, super polychromatic blue.
    price:  SOLD

  • Very Old Central Asian / Uzbek main carpet with crosses in octagons. Great saturated and diverse color with an amazing border of ... read more
    price:  On request

  • Joft-knotted Khorosan / Herat minakhani fragment, circa 1800 or a little earlier, cotton warp, wool weft group, fantastic drawing and color. It ... read more
    price:  $650

  • Armenian Lenkoran fragment inscribed 'Lusinia Tanielov in the year 1903'. 3'9"x6'0"
    price:  $1800

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish rug with a star border and 'Memling gul'design
    price:  POR

  • Baluch camel ground rug with an asmalyk design and minakhani border. Camel warp as well. Size is about 3'6"x 7".
    price:  POR

  • Baluch flatwoven sofreh, camel-ground with a field of repeat abstracted trees. a couple of silk highlights. Nice ends with some weft float. ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch camel ground prayer rug with large ashik like design, black animal hair weft, tight thick weave, condition is quite messed up ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Varamin torba, fantastic wool, floppy handle, and high pile. This piece is a tactile delight!
    price:  $1200

  • Baluch bird bag face with a curled leaf border
    price:  SOLD

  • Nice old worn Shirvan rug, 4x8ish, with a fine weave and nice color.

  • Baluch 'crypto prayer rug'? with a dramatic border break at the top and blue and white silk knots punctuating a line about ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Turkmen Middle Amu Darya region torba or trapping with an ikat derived field and stylized floral border. 4'0"x1'7"
    price:  $350