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  • Baluch shrub bagface with fiery ochre and polychromatic blues. Shrubs here are in a lattice. Glossy wool. All great vegetal dyes. 21"x19"
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  • Yomut Chuval, Former David Reuben piece published in 'Gols and Guls 2' as plate 35 with description reading... "Yomut Family Juval 72x125 (2'6"x4'1") ... read more
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  • Armenian? embroidery, Silk highlights with a crisp design. Very charming!
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  • Baluch Rug with hexagonal tile field pattern. Very soft and pliable blanket-like handle. Poly-chromatic blue and open drawing with an abstracted animal, ... read more
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  • Crazy Baluch octagon star bag with animals. Tribal khorjin from Khorosan with an eccentric take on a classic Baluchi type. Very colorful ... read more
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  • South Persian Bagface, super soft lustrous wool with a great handle. Shrubs in lattice design based on classic Garden Carpet design. The ... read more
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  • Sevan Kazak with plied white cotton weft or some sort of Moghan with a Sevan design. blasted but with fantastic color. Looks ... read more
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  • Huge Turkmen Chuval, probably Ersari but also perhaps on the Kizyl Ayak spectrum. This is a very large ultra meaga chuval, one ... read more
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  • Classic Kizyl Ayak Chuval with a blank elem. Tight weave, soft wool,floppy handle, glossy sheen. Published in Hali 148 'Kizil Ayak & ... read more
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  • Central Asian Middle Amu Darya Turkmen trapping or torba with an ikat derived 'aq waymaq' design. 4'8"x1'4"
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  • Baluch Harshang Design Main Carpet with Birds. woven in western Afghanistan with great natural color and very soft wool. browns are largely ... read more
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish Rug with Memling Guls. Probably 18th century with a rich, diverse and moody color palette, exceptional wool and ... read more
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  • Two fragments of an exceptional 18th century blue-ground Bergama area rug with a curled tendril palmette border. Each approximately 2'6"x2'6".
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  • East Anatolian rug fragment, very fine weave and saturated natural color. An exceptionally elegant but battered older example of an iconic type.
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  • Kuba pile rug with a harshang palmette design more typically seen in sumak rugs. Great color and design.
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  • Central Anatolian Memling gul rug fragment, very nice colors.
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  • Camel-Ground Baluch Tree Rug with a central classic type Baluchi tree flanked by two more geometric tree forms and interspersed with a ... read more
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  • " Timuri " type Baluch prayer rug with a rare pointed mihrab niche flanked by animals. a very unusual Baluchi. Restoration to ... read more
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  • Camel Ground Baluch Rug with Trees, small size, great drawing, perhaps a bit more curvilinear than most with a bite nibbled out ... read more
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  • Baluch Bagface, great graphics with a strong central element replacing the more typical star. nice handle and soft wool. cut on the
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  • Very old single-wefted Veramin pile torba / mafrash. Very floppy handle that can drape around a pencil. These pieces are often stiff, ... read more
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  • Baluch octagon bag
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  • Konya Cappadocia rug fragment, 17th/18th cen. Tile design on a modulated tawny and yellow ground. great color, cool construction, obvious condition issues ... read more
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  • Baluch Camel-ground Poshti, great abrash in the natural camel and soft natural colors including yellow and green. The field displays a rendition ... read more
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  • large Anatolian fragment with a Caucasian Dragon Carpet design.
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  • Yomut Turkmen chuval with some archaic features.
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  • Tekke Chuval with Aina Guls, fine weave, silk highlights
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  • Baluch Bird Rug, all good colors. w. Afghanistan, late 19th cen. Worn with one border torn.
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  • Turkmen Torba with Memling guls. Seems somewhere between Ersari and something Eagle, fine weave, great wool and dyes. asymmetrical knot open right, ... read more
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  • Qashqai Sumak Chanteh, The left side uses a light warp while the right uses a dark one which creates a subtle but ... read more
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  • Central Anatolian rug with superior color.
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  • Anatolian kilim with stripes and stars. Great Turkish color. mounted and conserved. 50" x 84"
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  • Single-wefted minakhani Baluch bag in paradoxical condition. An old example with several blues, complete back and great flat-woven top but with a ... read more
    price:  SOLD, then bought back and no longer for sale

  • Large Tibetan seating square. Excellent natural colors including a fantastic abrashed green and a pink/purple that may be lac or madder. wangden-esque ... read more
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  • Central Anatolian kilim fragment. long strip with great colors on a white ground. Mounted and conserved.
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  • Complete Timuri type Baluch Khorjin Saddle Bag Set. The sides have been opened but the entire piece is complete and in great ... read more
    price:  SOLD, thanks

  • Central Asian Middle Amu Darya Area or Ersari Chuval with an ikat pattern. Crazy drawing with a lot of asymmetry, good color ... read more
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  • Luri Bakhtiari Sumac Panel. Much better than average. Bird Border, very Luristan Bronzish. a green tassel is attached to the front upper-left ... read more
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  • Northwest Persian Kurdish rug. Camel ground with intriguing colors. Serab-esque but better.
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish long rug with a Caucasian Lenkoran design. Vibrant color, exceptional wool, worn. 3 different main border types.
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  • Small format Bergama area Turkish rug. Squarish shape and nicely drawn with good color. About 38"×42". Worn but very readable. Two-tones of ... read more
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  • Baluch Minakhani Bagface, saturated colors with all three secondary colors, green, purple and orange, depressed warp type from Khorossan, good shape with ... read more
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  • Baluch bag with quartered design of eight-pointed stars. Great color and wool. One of the best renditions of the type.
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  • Ersari Turkmen Chuval, large, fine, and very red with silk highlights
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  • Turkmen Yomut Chuval, worn but much more interesting than most of the type. fine weave, precision detailing and great color saturation. Very ... read more
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  • Pair of Qashqai Bags
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  • Ersari Trapping, great vibrant madder red. The top row of ornament is drawn on a smaller scale while the bottom is larger-scale ... read more
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  • Small Western Anatolian Small Pattern Holbein Fragment, 16th century (about a foot square)
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