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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • 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

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

  • Baluch balisht, older Sistan type with botehs, nice, sculptural and thin, fine weave and saturated color.
    price:  $200 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Super soft Qashqai or Khamseh rug, 4'1"x5'0"
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  • Tibetan square with a diamond design, 19th century, tie-dyed textile strip sewn onto back
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  • 19th century Tibetan square, several indigo blues and intriguing integration of the corner-pieces with the central medallion, 61x56cm
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  • Baluch main carpet with a 'harshang' variant palmette design. Worn but still regal with excellent blues. Unusual 3 column variant.
    price:  $450 +shipping inquire at benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Middle Amu Darya carpet with an unusual and compelling floral lattice design.
    price:  POR benbana@gmail.com

  • Tekke Turkmen embroidered panel measuring about 3"x11", perhaps some sort of clothing applique or part of a sheath? Fine work, vivid natural
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  • Tekke Turkmen camel head-dress. Great condition made wit several types of textiles including, two colors of velvet, silk embroidery, red wool, block ... read more
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  • a fine Arab Baluch bag face
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  • Complete Timuri Baluh bag (one half of a Khorjin) with a fantastic flat-woven back. The bag face has copious highlights using white ... read more
    price:  $285 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Central Asian Kungrat Uzbek embroidered ilgich with a 'Memling gul' design. Quintessentially tribal. 27"x28"
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  • 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:  $375 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch complete double saddle bag set, a small khorjin or possibly a chanteh set? Sistan area. Silk pile highlights in the center ... read more
    price:  POR benbanayan@hotmail.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:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Khotan rug, smaller size measuring 3'6"x5'7". Classic central medallion design with a fantastic border. Areas of conservative restoration.
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  • Enigmatic double niched Baluch rug. This is the only example of the format that i have seen that is asymmetrically knotted. There ... read more
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  • Unusual Baluch prayer rug with dark natural undyed camel wool and saturated natural dyes. An eccentric rendering of a classic design type ... read more
    price:  $550 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Ivory ground Baluch salt bag, pile front, flatwoven back
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  • Starburst Caucasian Zeichur rug with a dark corroded ground, very colorful with a sculptural effect.
    price:  $850

  • Yomut wedding? rug. Cute piece with good dyes.
    price:  $400

  • 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:  $750 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Camel-ground tribal rug with a pair of abstracted trees. 19th century, all good colors. Black, tan, grey, and red weft. Asymmetric knot ... read more
    price:  $325 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

  • 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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  • Fabulous Kangxi era Ningxia Chinese rug, circa 1700. 4'5"x6'2". Small format classical Chinese piece with spectacular drawing.
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  • Baluch bird bag with intriguing border, fine weave, saturated natural color.
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  • Small cinnamon ground Baluch rug with a 'scorpion' boteh field.
    price:  $450

  • 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

  • Middle Amu Darya region Turkmen or Uzbek ensi. Older than most of this type. Large scale with bold yet unabbreviated drawing. Great ... read more
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  • Complete Baluch Khorjin set. Green ground bag faces with lustrous wool and luminous color. ( i can't take a decent photo to ... read more
    price:  $450 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Caucasian Kazak rug with a very abstracted classical medallion

  • Shirvan rug with a Leshghi star center. Colourful striped borders, atypical format, soft handle with diverse natural color. Some damage in bottom ... read more
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  • Very dynamic 'cloudband Bashir' Central Asian Turkmen carpet. Former Jim Dixon collection. Fantastic color which is not conveyed well in these images ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Very Old Central Asian / Uzbek main carpet with crosses in octagons. Great saturated and diverse color with an amazing border of ... read more
    price:  On request contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Very long Baluch pile trapping of some sort. Looks almost like a balisht on growth hormones. Classic Baluch leaf design on a ... read more
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  • Baluch sofreh with birds
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  • Dokhtar-i Qazi prayer rug published in Hali 53, exhibited in the 1990 icoc.
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  • Greek island embroidery, section of a cuff with an Italianate oak leaf and acorn meander. Probably Ionian Islands, Corfu? or Lefkada?, Northwest Greece, ... read more
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  • Unusual tree variant Baluch camel ground prayer rug (one of about half a dozen known examples)
    price:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch shrubs in lattice bag, nice and diverse color, dark weft, larger size than most (30"x24").There are a few knots on blue ... read more
    price:  $450 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:  $500 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Pair of small Yomud torbas complete with original backs, chords, and tassels. All natural color. Excellent condition!
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  • Northwest Persian with bold scale minakhani design. Cut and shut at bottom.
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  • Elongated Yomud asmalyk with mixed cotton and wool weft and interesting almost 'ying yang' drawing at the top of the central point.
    price:  $750 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch Timuri type prayer rug with a very rare rendition of abstracted geometric repeating shrubs. Leaves if light blue at the top, ... read more
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  • Zig-zaggy diamond Baluch with fantastic blue
    price:  $1250 benbanayan@gmail.com