Elegant 19th century Chinese “Yue” embroidered* silk peacock banner using finely woven coloured silk threads, and wafer-thin silver encased silk threads, on ... read more
Central Asian Uzbek Tartari saddle storage bag. Pleasing combination of colours with the blue being especially attractive. Made in the early 1900s ... read more
Striking Turkoman (Kizal Ayak?) juval with the mina khani design, complete with the plain-woven wool backing still attached, from the southern Amu ... read more
Six dragon Chinese-silk canopy from Tibet with gold and silver coloured threads, which was used for hanging over a seated Tibetan Buddhist ... read more
This Tibetan 'butterfly' shaped makden, or under-saddle carpet, features a rare depiction of tigers in place of the snow-lions sometimes seen in ... read more
Tibetan seating carpet depicting a single front-facing five clawed dragon, being unusual in that it shows the dragon in profile, as opposed ... read more
Limited edition Tibetan carpet book entitled “Auspicious Carpets. Tibetan Rugs And Textiles”. Contains twelve chapters by some of the pioneers in the ... read more
Tibetan pangden’s, or aprons, feature striking multi-coloured, horizontally striped panels and were traditionally worn by married women, or women that are old ... read more
Important Finnish ryijy from a pioneer of modern textile design in Finland, and the leading Finnish designer of the 1930-40s, with impeccable ... read more
Striking Tibetan khaden with a lovely abrashed strawberry-red border and two shades of saturated abrashed green in the center field. a rare ... read more
Thick warp-faced-back Wangden-style Tibetan Tsokden (a runner or long carpet) – of a design type which according to recent published research was ... read more
So-called Kashgar kilim. Little is known about these kilims, which were woven by Turkomen weavers purportedly living in the Silk Road oasis ... read more
So-called 'Gansu-kilim' from China. This piece vividly displays the wood block print designs scattered throughout the natural undyed wool of the main-field, ... read more
Striking yak wool ‘Wangden-style’ (i.e. warp-faced-back) Tibetan carpet displaying three auspicious yungdrung (swastika) motifs encased within three distinct design squares. It has ... read more
Tibetan dance collars or ‘cloud collars’ were worn by Buddhists lamas during ceremonial dances, where the coller “opens and flows” as the ... read more
Exceptionally beautiful, intentionally abrashed, Tibetan khaden with all natural dyes. Using the ‘gau box’ (or amulet) design and combining only two colours ... read more
Sensational Tibetan takheb intended for use as a horse or yak cover / blanket, with an elaborate, visually stunning, multi-coloured flower-head design ... read more
Impressive Tibetan khaden featuring multiple Khotanesque-like flower heads spread evenly throughout a deep indigo blue abrashed center field. All the dyes are ... read more
Tibetan khaden featuring six bats surrounding two central lotus flowers on a beautifully abrashed maroon-red main field, while the wide main border ... read more
Captivating old burgundy coloured large Baluch, beautifully abrashed throughout and a main field featuring eighteen quirky unconventional octagonal guls / gols (i.e. ... read more
Lovely Tibetan khaden with three mandala-like medallions and uncommon abstract main border motifs. The pile is full throughout, the dyes are excellent ... read more
Late 'Classical Chinese' period runner from the Ningxia (or Beijing?) region that has been shortened by rejoining three 'sections' of a longer ... read more
