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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Silk chair cover fragment with a foliate-dragon medallion, about one quarter of the total piece China, 17th/18th century,Kangxi or Qianlong period
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Chinese silk satin applique from a Tibetan temple banner
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch blue-ground Timuri type tree rug. All good dyes with a couple knots of blue cotton. 4'6"x7'1'
    price:  $265 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Fragment of a very old Ningxia runner with lotus flowers and faint vinescrol ornament
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Graphic, colorful mafrash end panel. Nice one
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Flatwoven mafrash side panel, vivid natural color, deep aubergine, green, gold, peach and madder-red, cotton white. Some old reweave can be seen ... read more
    price:  $250 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Camel-ground South Persian Luri tribal rug with a pair of abstracted trees. 19th century, all good colors. Black, tan, grey, and red ... read more
    price:  $250 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Oldest of this type around. Large Kizyl Ayak Turkmen chuval, great weave, floppy handle, beautiful spacing, and rich saturated colors. a portion ... read more
    price:  $475 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:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Colorful flatwoven mafrash panel, several blues, aubergine, green, gold, and cotton white
    price:  SOLD

  • Old Baluch octagon star bag with a cinnamon ground, polychromatic blue, and a little green
    price:  $250 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Antique Tibetan square mat on a black ground, all natural colors, fantastic Himalayan wool
    price:  $350 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small cinnamon ground Baluch rug with a 'scorpion' boteh field.
    price:  Reduced $350 contact benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Baluch rug with serrated ashik-like tile design and a leaf border. Several blues, nice color in general. Goat hair side selvedge. 3'6"x6'3" ... read more
    price:  Reduced $350 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Crisply drawn Camel Ground Baluch Prayer Rug with elongated stylized hands, depressed warp Khorosan type. Dated Baluch prayer rug, a piece from ... read more
    price:  Reduced $450 contact benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Small vamel ground Baluch prayer rug. Rustic from Western Afghanistan.
    price:  Reduced $100 contact 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:  Reduced $450 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:  Reduced $250 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Arab Baluch rug with camel ground. Pink is cochineal. The orange is hot. Njce usable antique piece. 4'0x6'7"
    price:  Reduced $250 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small rustic Arab Baluch. Good colors, goat hair, oxidized brown. Good thing for cheap.
    price:  Reduced $150 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Geometric Ningxia seating square, 18th century
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Various Rug and Textile Books, titles include... Burns, The Caucusus: Traditional Weaving Daniel Walker, Flowers Underfoot Vahram Tatikyan, Ancestral Carpets of Karabagh Hali ... read more
    price:  Contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Smaller Baluch main carpet. Good age, color graphics, and handle.
    price:  $650 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

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

  • Timuri type Baluch rug with 'scorpion' boteh field and a border more typically seen in flat weaves. Very moody. Larger than most ... read more
    price:  $750 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

  • 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

  • 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:  $1800 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small elegant antique Tibetan rug, all natural color with tone on tone reds
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Ningxia Chinese seating square with dragons. Former Sandra Whitman with inventory tag.
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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

  • 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