Warped and Wefted

  • Spectacular horned dragon Tibetan shugden (seating carpet). Dramatic drawing, excellent dyes and a very tight weave (for an old Tibetan carpet @ ... read more
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  • Superlative double dragon Tibetan masho (over saddle carpet). Fantastic drawing, impressive dyes and an exceptionally tight weave (for a Tibetan carpet @ ... read more
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  • a rare Tibetan – that is, woven in Tibet with the Tibetan knot (not the more common Ningxia / 'Chinese' knotted type) ... read more
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  • An uncommon 19th century East Turkestan runner (or ‘long narrow carpet’) from either Khotan or Yarkand - age old oasis towns on ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Central Asian Uzbek Tartari saddle storage bag. Pleasing combination of colours with the blue being especially attractive. Made in the early 1900s ... read more
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  • Beautiful Qing / Ch’ing Chinese Imperial Dynasty hand woven roundel depicting a five clawed dragon shown in profile in gold wrapped silk ... read more
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Limited edition Tibetan carpet book entitled “Auspicious Carpets. Tibetan Rugs And Textiles”. Contains twelve chapters by some of the pioneers in the ... read more
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  • Uzbek silk and cotton ikat panel with a totemic tree-like design from the Samarkand / Bokhara region of what was once called ... read more
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  • The front panel / face of a Turkoman torba(?) that has a pile of lovely shiny wool and undyed cotton (all the ... read more
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  • Tiger striped Tibetan 'goyo' or door rug (well, actually, a door ‘curtain’). These pile woven goyo’s with the crossed / quadrant design, ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Matched pair of fringed Tibetan carpets. Both carpets have cotton warp and wool weft, the dyes are primarily natural and they were ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Two toned Tibetan khaden that uses a repeating ‘gau box’ (or amulet) motif as the design, with a mild abrash through both ... read more
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Inner Mongolian under saddle carpet with soft velvety wool and excellent colours. Made circa 1900, the pile is thick and shiny, the ... read more
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  • Small carpet from the Baotou region of China that, given the tigma (cross) design in the striped central field, was probably intended ... read more
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  • This magnificent seven roundel Ningxia runner is, unlike many of this particular design type on the market today, fully intact; that is ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Large Tibetan or Bhutanese ‘blanket’ that, when used in Bhutan, was worn as a wrap around women's garment. Made of eleven striped ... read more
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Tibetan dance collars or ‘cloud collars’ were worn by Buddhists lamas during ceremonial dances, where the coller “opens and flows” as the ... read more
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  • Folding ‘altar table’ that a Tibetan Lama (a Buddhist 'priest') would have taken with him on his travels to use when performing ... read more
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  • From the Baotou-Suiyuan / Inner Mongolian region of China, this carpet has an un-dyed brown camel hair coloured main field which the ... read more
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  • Pair of Bhutanese Mahakala (red and black) painted ceremonial dance masks, hand carved in the early part of the 1900’s. The rich ... read more
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  • From the Ningxia region of China comes this five dragon carpet with a center field of naturally dyed lightly abrashed blue that ... read more
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  • This small Tibetan chest is made of wood with leather trim fastened by metal tabs and painted on three of the side ... read more
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  • Impressive tiger carpet from the Inner Mongolian region of China. The tiger is very well rendered against a red background and is ... read more
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  • Exceptionally beautiful, intentionally abrashed, Tibetan khaden with all natural dyes. Using the ‘gau box’ (or amulet) design and combining only two colours ... read more
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  • This pillar carpet featuring a five clawed right facing blue dragon on a golden yellow background was made in the Ningxia region ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Impressive six square runner made in the Ningxia region of China featuring two dancing cranes in a roundel on an apricot coloured ... read more
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  • Tibetan khaden with a center field design made up of roundels and half roundels that is generally associated as mimicking Chinese silk ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Tibetan Gyatsen, i.e. 'tubular' religious ornamentation's that are often hung from the ceiling on either side of a Tibetan altar, or on ... read more
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  • Tibetan khaden with two dragons frolicking in the clouds while competing for the elusive ‘precious gem / flaming pearl’. Made in the ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Vintage Finnish ryijy featuring a folk-art design popular in the Pori area on the south-west coast of Finland in the early part ... read more
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  • Captivating old burgundy coloured large Baluch, beautifully abrashed throughout and a main field featuring eighteen quirky unconventional octagonal guls / gols (i.e. ... read more
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  • 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
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  • Central Asian silk purse, probably Uzbek or Turkoman, of indeterminate use. It is flat-woven and made of tightly stitched hand spun silk ... read more
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