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  • Shahsevan pile bag face, two reds, two blues, green and gold. Red wefted, all natural color, good age
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  • Longer Coptic bands, most likely part of a tunic, Egypt, 4th-6th century.
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  • Fine weave Timuri Yaqub Khani Baluch rug with stripes and botehs, saturated all natural color. a very nice thing.
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  • Smaller Baluch main carpet. Good age, color graphics, and handle.
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  • Turkmen Middle Amu Darya region torba or trapping with an ikat derived field and stylized floral border. 4'0"x1'7"
    price:  $350

  • 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

  • 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

  • Coptic textile fragment with animals in roundels, 5th-7th century
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  • Fakhralo Kazak rug with Sevan influences. Dated 1310 (1892). All good colors, lustrous wool, nice handle. 4'6"x5:7"
    price:  $1750 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Purple ground Baluch bag face with cotton white pile. Former James Douglas Collection
    price:  $325 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • a Coptic textile band with very intriguing negative space
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  • Unusual blue-ground Baluch rug with large-scale boteh design. Timuri? Yaqub Khani? Something else?
    price:  $750 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Middle Amu Darya region Turkmen or Uzbek ensi. Older than most of this type. Large scale with bold yet unabbreviated drawing. Great ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Jaf Kurd bag face, thick, soft, lustrous wool, good condition
    price:  $350 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Complete Baluch khorjin with a very unusual design integrating minakhani flowers with a central Memling medallion. All good colors and in good ... read more
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  • Colorful Coptic textile fragment
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  • Yellow-ground Coptic textile fragment
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  • Late Antique Egyptian Coptic textile fragment part of a tunic with a portion of the collar preserved.
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  • Small Coptic square with a central figure of a perhaps a satyr or a monkey
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  • Shahsevan reverse sumak panel,Hashtrud Miyaneh region. Nice older example with two blues, two refs, two purples, etc. missing one border
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  • 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

  • Worn and whipped and very rare red-ground Timuri type Baluch rug with a Saryk border. Madder red ground with cochineal highlights. Squarish ... read more
    price:  $750 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Khorosan Baluch octagon star bag face with vivid polychromatic blues and a substantial and dramatic flat-woven band of floating weft work.small ... read more
    price:  $550 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bagface. Fantastic saturated colors against a slightly corrosive slate-green ground. Amazing wool. Super yummy.
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  • Arab Baluch rug, very jazzy, about 3x5ish, open right.
    price:  $275

  • 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

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

  • Large square Jaf Kurd bag, slightly unusual layout with a particularly good white s narrow border. 3'5"x2'10"
    price:  $850 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Old East Anatolian rug fragment, likely Kurdish
    price:  $750 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish fragment
    price:  SOLD

  • Complete East Anatolian weftless sumak saddle bag set. Fabulous natural color with vibrant madder red (no cochineal). Great age and in spectacular ... read more
    price:  $1800 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Shahsevan sumak bag face. Very nice greens, wonky tribal shape. Size is 17"x20"
    price:  $400 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bag face with shrubs. Vibrant natural color and good condition. 31"x26"
    price:  $375 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch sofreh with birds
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  • 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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  • Baluch star bag with polychromatic blue, a blue-green, and copper / cinnamon ground. Older than most but worn.1 knot of cotton in ... read more
    price:  $225 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:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Northwest Persian Kurd with bold scale minakhani design. Cut and shut at bottom.
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  • Baluch Sistan bag face with a Mushwani design. Full pile with sumak and kilim at the bottom end. Highlights in the center ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Old, elegant, banded central Anatolian kilim. Excellent refined color.
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  • Ladik border fragment, likely 18th century
    price:  SOLD

  • a fine Arab Baluch bag face with silk highlights
    price:  $750 benbana@gmail.com

  • An unusual East Anatolian rug with columns of palmettes integrated into a large-scale striped textile design, great wool and color , 3'6"x5'6"
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  • 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

  • Inscribed Shahsevan sumak band with Memling guls and stars. Measures about 227x16cm including the macrame end finishes. The length of the sumak ... read more
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  • An early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan pastiche carpet, reduced in length. Safavid era, circa 1600. a later version of this ... read more
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  • Detail from an early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan carpet. Safavid era, circa 1600.
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