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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • An early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan pastiche carpet, reduced in length. Safavid era, circa 1600. a later version of this ... read more
    price:  POR

  • Larger Baluch octagon and star type bagface, super soft with at least 4 blues.
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch minakhani rug, decent condition, great color, 3'9"x6'4"
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch boteh design bagface, very luxurious with super soft wool, a fine weave, and intricate flatwoven fasteners. small repair in left bottom
    price:  SOLD THX

  • Zeichur Kuba rug with ultimate color. Older than most (all?) Thin and delicate handle. 3'4"x6'2"
    price:  SOLD

  • Large Baluch star octagon bag. Great wool and handle.
    price:  SOLD

  • Small Jaf Kurd bagface, 1'10"x1'2" with staggered knotting
    price:  SOLD

  • Armenian inscribed Chahar Mahal Bakhtiari rug, all natural dyes. Inscription reads 'Bartholomew i, the Benevolent and dated 1924.
    price:  SOLD

  • Vivid Saturated Color. Two matching fragments of an Anatolian Yatak, mounted together and conserved. multicolored carnations on a golden-saffron abrashed ground, perfect ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • 20 Christie's London Islamic art catalogs. All in great condition
    price:  $100 for all or $10 each +post

  • Hali Magazine, multiple back issues in great condition available from number 53 through more current issues. Excellent rug reference material. All in ... read more
    price:  $15 each, discount for multiples

  • Ersari? Turkmen Guli-Gul Main Carpet. Wear is pretty much as it appears in the images. One side has significant loss to the ... read more
    price:  $550 plus shipping OBO

  • Timuri type Baluch rug with a central Turkmen gul and wonderful ornament. Yes, there is aniline in this one. There is also ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Fine old Baluch minakhani rug, very flat back and a great floppy handle, nice abrash, 3'1"x4'10"
    price:  SOLD

  • Rustic camel wool Baluch with asmalyk derived design. Warp 8s a mix of dark animal hair and wool. Very soft longer pile. ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Striped Baluch balisht with purple and green. Probably western Afghanistan, I'm sceptical about the orange, it doesn't look tippy and is rather ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Para Mamluk' star Afshar bagface, slate green field and heightened drawing.
    price:  SOLD

  • Mudjur (Mucur) or possibly Konya prayer rug. Big knots, lots of colors, all vegetal dyes with no sulfonic. 3 shades of aubergine ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • 6 gul Tekke torba
    price:  SOLD

  • Small 19th century Bergama prayer rug, soft wool, generally intact with some old repair at the top left corner and middle right ... read more
    price:  SOLD, thanks

  • Ancient minakhani Baluch rug. (price not commensurate with condition)
    price:  SOLD

  • Detail from an early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan carpet. Safavid era, circa 1600.
    price:  POR

  • Safavid Persian silk sleeve with shrubs and silver metallic clouds, mounted and conserved.
    price:  POR

  • Northwest Persian flatwoven bag. Probably Kurdish. Not quite ' reverse sumak '. One side is flat while the other is more textured. ... read more
    price:  $495

  • Interesting Senneh or related west Persian bagface with Qajar soldiers bearing swords and birds in the corners, nice wool and saturated natural ... read more
    price:  $550

  • Caucasian blossom carpet fragment, circa 1700, 57x123cm
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch rug with super glossy soft wool. Drawn with no main border only a guard. kilim largely preserved, great condition!
    price:  SOLD

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish runner fragment with flowering shrubs on a gold ground, very nice color. 2'8"x6'8".
    price:  SOLD

  • Salor Turkmen chuval, asymmetric knot open left, classic Salor depressed weave and iconic drawing but young enough to use azo dye. Still ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Jaf Kurd bagface with unusual tucked diamond design
    price:  SOLD

  • classy Jaf Kurd bagface, great color and super border, 3 blues, 2 greens, 2 reds, aubergine, etc.. Nice pile rendition of flatwoven ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Colorful older square-shaped Quchan Kurd rug from Khorosan. Aina gul design field, superior color. Condition is... well... um... 'poncho-fied'?
    price:  SOLD

  • Southwest Persian tribal bag, probably Luri or possibly Qashqai. Very soft pile and saturated natural colors. 20"x19"
    price:  SOLD

  • really nice Persian village mat or poshti, probably Hamadan, 1'11"x3'0". All vegetal dyes.
    price:  SOLD

  • Ersari Turkmen chuval with mina-khani design. An early version of this type with two shades of insect pink, silk, two or three ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Complete Baluch flatwoven chanteh with animals and Turkmen style shrubs / trees
    price:  SOLD

  • Chinese rug with bats and 'shòu' symbol 壽 . Very soft wool pile. Probably Beijing early 20th century - 1920s. Tres chic. ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Freaky fine Shirvan prayer rug, dated 1267 / 1851, unusual square proportions.
    price:  SOLD

  • Mongol era silk lampas weave textile fragment. 13th century. Could have been woven anywhere from Il-Khanid Iran to Yuan China but likely ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • camel ground Baluch rug. Intriguing design with a border inspired by Shahsevan sumaks. Finely woven but with corrosive browns and obvious wear. ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • South Persian tribal khorjin bag with a large scale boteh design. Looks Khamseh. All nice colors.
    price:  SOLD

  • small symmetrically knotted Baluch rug. The field design is composed of a repeat made up from the tendrils of harshang blossoms (blossoms ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Sistan Baluch chanteh with Turkmen references. Great green brindled warp using wool and darker animal hair.
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch Camel Ground Prayer Rug, fantastically soft wool (just ask the moths!) saturated madder red. Great tactile quality. Good drawing with interesting ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch square field star bag
    price:  SOLD

  • melting Memling gul on a Baluch bagface
    price:  SOLD

  • Shirvan runner with a gold ground, 3'4"x10'1"
    price:  SOLD

  • Ersari trapping with a dyrnak gul design. Excellent condition. Nice color and abrash, 5'0"x1'4" excluding original tassels.
    price:  SOLD