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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Small Ningxia long and narrow rug,
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Ningxia seating square with Chinese 'magic mountain' iconography and floral roundel
    price:  $350 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Ningxia Chinese throne-back with a "fu dog" /guardian lion (石獅; shíshī).
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Ningxia square with a textile design. Main border cut. 19"x19"
    price:  $320 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Antique Tibetan rug with a speckled natural oatmeal-colored ground. The format and drawing are based on Ningxia rugs of the 19th century. ... read more
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Chinese 'rank badge' (buzi) with a crane. Silk embroidery incorporating metal threads.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Japanese Edo period silk with metal thread temple banner. Calligraphy on cotton backing denotes the patron and monastic institution. Circa 1800-1825. Smaller, ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Book : Ancestral Carpets of Karabagh
    price:  $100 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Arab Baluch rug with very glossy wool and several blues
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Very graphic Baluch mixed technique sofreh. Knotted pile borders, a fine geometric repeat flat-woven weft float brocade field with kilim ends. Saturated ... read more
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  • Antique Tibetan khagangma seating square. Elegantly drawn central sea-green colored quatrefoil medallion floating against a sky-blue abrashed field. Unusual but successful color ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • East Anatolian Kurdish divan cover. Red-wefted group with great color including slate blues and greens, salmon, and good. fragmented into three pieces, ... read more
    price:  $650 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Book : Ikat, Silks of Central Asian (The Guido Goldman collection) Copiously illustrated with quality photography, very fancy case.
    price:  $150 including domestic media mail shipping. contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Unusual tree variant Baluch camel ground prayer rug (one of about half a dozen known examples)
    price:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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:  $750

  • Tibetan square with a diamond design, 19th century?, tie-dyed textile strip sewn onto back
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • antique Tibetan square, several indigo blues and intriguing integration of the corner-pieces with the central medallion, 61x56cm
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Book : Antique Ottoman Rugs in Transylvania by Stefano Ionescu
    price:  $150 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch prayer rug, dark and mysterious with super glossy wool. Very unusual design variant. Exceptionally nice flatwoven ends.
    price:  $2300 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Not my typical listing, an old but not ancient mid 20th century Afghan Ersari prayer rug with super graphics and huge hands ... read more
    price:  $200 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Akstafa Caucasian runner, fun thing in messed up condition with bad repair and some fuchsine dye. The other colors are vegetable dyes ... read more
    price:  $350 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Antique Khotan saf, soft colors, soft wool, cool drawing. Size is 6'3"x3'1"
    price:  $550 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Rare unusual Khotan rug with a seldomly seen central medallion variant and corner pieces. Fret guard border is drawn very freely with ... read more
    price:  $2200 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Ningxia seating square with a double dorje / tantric thunderbolt and central yin / yang symbol against an intense yellow ground. Commissioned ... read more
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Tibetan small rug or saddle top with a camel ground, abrashed blue vine-scroll and a red central quatrefoil medallion. Nice auspicious bat-like ... read more
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  • Colorful Tibetan khagangma seating square. Elegant drawing, older type with some wear, all natural dyes.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Tibetan rug with auspicious bats and cloudbands. Likely based in a Chinese textile design. Dramatic abrash, all natural dyes, great condition
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small fragment from a Chinese silk kesi Probably part of the framed textile mounting of a Tibetan tanka China, 17th or 18th century
    price:  $1500 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Large (over 3 feet) double dorje seating square. 18th century, perhaps Ningxia or another Chinese weaving center made for the Tibetan market. ... read more
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  • Small Chinese Ningxia square with clouds in the border and butterflies in the corners of the field.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Tibetan rug or saddle top. Finer than most, proper 19th century piece
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 18th century Chinese Ningxia seating square with lotus flower design.
    price:  SOLD

  • Small white-ground Chinese Ningxia rug, fine weave and elegant drawing, reminiscent of ceramics
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Fabulous Kangxi era Ningxia Chinese rug, circa 1700. 4'5"x6'2". Small format classical Chinese piece with spectacular drawing.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Six gul Tekke torba, complete with original back, velvety pile, super saturated natural color
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Gansu Chinese square with a fret medallion and butterflies
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  • Geometric Ningxia seating square, 18th century
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  • Tiger pelt rug strip, Chinese weaving center for the Tibetan market, circa 1920 size is about 16"x40"
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Good rug bad picture, Baluch Mushwani type prayer rug, all natural colors, (can't quite get them right in photos) lots of aubergine, ... read more
    price:  $350

  • Classic East Anatolian Malatya area bag with an unusual eight-pointed star in octagon design. Pearl roundels? (Probably not but it is reminiscent)
    price:  $350 more info... benbanayan@gmail.com

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

  • Baluch sofreh with birds
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Lush blue-ground Timuri Baluch prayer rug. Great wool, vibrant natural color, super handle, very good condition with preserved flat-woven ends. Small silk ... read more
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  • Complete Baluch khorjin with a very unusual design integrating minakhani flowers with a central Memling medallion. All good colors and in good ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Very graphic camel ground Baluch rug with unusual geometric botehs arranged in a subtle but sophisticated repeat, creating diagonal negative space that ... read more
    price:  $550 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Fine weave Timuri Yaqub Khani Baluch rug with stripes and botehs, saturated all natural color. a very nice thing.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Smaller Baluch main carpet. Good age, color graphics, and handle.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch rug with a small-scale embroidered design rendered in pile. Narrow border, uncommon type, 4x6ish
    price:  $350