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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Baluch single wefted minakhani bag face, large, healthy pile, classic drawing, saturated natural color, soft and bouncy. 35"x27"
    price:  SOLD

  • Border detail from a Safavid era Kerman 'vase technique' carpet fragment.

  • very very old Khotan or Gansu polka dot fragment with archaic border
    price:  SOLD

  • Pair of complete green-ground Baluch khorjin. Western Afghanistan, color is really good and difficult to capture. Subtle idiosyncratic drawing improvisations throughout. Great ... read more
    price:  $450

  • Caucasian Kuba rug, old, superlative color, lots of wear. 3'6"x5'6"ish
    price:  on request

  • Baluch balisht, Sistan type with camel wool kilim back. Older than most, a good one.
    price:  $350

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bagface. Fantastic saturated colors against a slightly corrosive slate-green ground. Amazing wool. Super yummy.
    price:  POR

  • Northwest Persian runner with all natural dyes including 4 blues and undyed camel wool. 2'6"x8'8", great size.
    price:  SOLD

  • Blasted but Beautiful Ersari / Middle Amu Darya ikat inspired Central Asian chuval. Rough condition but old and thin with a soulful ... read more
    price:  $250

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish Sauj Bulagh rug with step diamonds, nice color with aubergine.
    price:  POR

  • 'Timuri' type Baluch prayer rug, nice colors and excellent condition.
    price:  Inexpensive

  • Central Asian Turkmen chuval with an ikat 'aq qaymaq' design. Great scale!
    price:  SOLD

  • Classic Baluch star bag. Old, worn, at least one highlight with cochineal silk. The 4eal deal. 2'10"x2'2"
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch balisht or poshti with a hexagonal repeat rarely seen in this small ilongated format. Vibrant red, 2 blues, 2 purples, 2 ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Large square Jaf Kurd bag, slightly unusual layout with a particularly good white s narrow border. 3'5"x2'10"
    price:  On request

  • Small Ottoman embroidery from Thrace. 19"x19"
    price:  $200

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bagface with fantastic color and wool and an unusual central medallion design
    price:  Probably more than you want to pay but less than you should

  • Kuba Perepedil rug, white ground, great condition.
    price:  SOLD

  • Assyrian jacket, eastern Syria or perhaps northern Iraq. Great condition, natural colors and using portions of metal thread. a fabulous ethnographic piece.
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch Runner, great natural colors, woven like a giant long bagface with a repeat mosaic like pattern of eight-pointed stars in a ... read more
    price:  $950

  • Early minakhani border fragment from a late 18th century jufti knotted Khorosan or Herat rug. 2'0"x1'11"
    price:  SOLD

  • so-called 'Golden Triangle' group carpet. Woven arguably in either Northwest Persia or Eastern Anatolia at a time when the border between these ... read more
    price:  POR

  • Remarkable colorful Sauj Bolagh Kurdish long rug with a step diamond field and fascinating border
    price:  SOLD

  • Afshar bagface, great color, wool, and handle
    price:  $475

  • Shahsevan reverse sumak bagface, aksu/shrub variant design with great color range including, oxblood, 3 blues, rose, pistachio, but also a tad of ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Central Asian Boogie Woogie, Small Middle Amu Darya area / Bashir Turkmen rug with polka-dots, perhaps influenced by Chinese models? Very graphic ... read more

  • Large colorful Baluch shrub bag. While the vast majority of Baluch bags with this design are from Khorosan and generally on the ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Large, super-colorful East Anatolian Holbein derived rug fragment. Mounted and ready to go. Exceptional wool. apx. 47"x30"
    price:  SOLD

  • Pair of small pile Shahsevan bags with sumak derived designs. Excellent color and super soft wool. One is about 17"x17.5" and the ... read more
    price:  POR

  • Small camel ground Baluch rug with stylized pallettes. Very fancy with highlights in white cotton pile, yellow wool pile (not camel), and ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Afshar bagface with an unusual field and a floral border, all wool, 2'6"x1'11"
    price:  $400 US domestic

  • Ottoman era Greek embroidery fragment. Epirus, 18th / 19th century.
    price:  SOLD

  • Jaf Kurd bagface, 24"x21, soft lustrous wool and saturated color with a single white elongated diamond in the center. There is a ... read more
    price:  $350

  • The following piece along with another have gone missing from a friend's shop in New York. Please let me know if you ... read more
    price:  MISSING

  • The following piece along with another have gone missing from a friend's shop in New York. Please let me know if you ... read more
    price:  MISSING

  • Art Deco Chinese rug with foliage and butterflies. 3'8"x5'10"
    price:  $650 +shipping

  • Konya yastik with a variant of a Holbein gul, front and back images. Condition is a little rough with some kashmiring of ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • East Anatolian Kurdish rug fragment. Super vibrant madder. mounted and conserved.
    price:  $1500

  • Ladik Prayer Rug with Double-Columns as well as Double Spandrels. Rare and beautiful white ground and exceptional aubergine and red spandrels. circa ... read more
    price:  $3000

  • Yomut wedding? rug. Cute piece with good dyes.
    price:  $400

  • Rabat Moroccan gallery rug, all natural colors, mid 19th. century?
    price:  POR

  • Antique Greek embroidery, probably Salonica / Thessaloniki
    price:  POR

  • Large (5'1" x 8'3" 155x252cm) East Anatolian Yatak with harshang and other ornament (alien cyclopses?)
    price:  SOLD

  • Bergama area Anatolian Turkish rug, an early rendition of this uncommon type with saturated color and open drawing, silk knots in the ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Tekke Turkmen main carpet, apx 8'x12'
    price:  $1800

  • corner fragment from a so-called 'Tibetan Group' or 'Golden Triangle' rug. Woven in the Northwest Persia/ Eastern Anatolia border region sometime around ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Isfahan Carpet, Safavid era, first half 17th century, silk and cotton warp, cotton weft, lac red ground, fine weave, cut and shut, ... read more
    price:  POR

  • Konya rug fragment, circa 1800 or perhaps earlier? Excellent aubergine.
    price:  $500