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Rugs for the sake of rugs

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  • Shahsevan (or South Persian?) banded jajim with designs drawn in float technique. 3'6"x5'8"
    price:  $300

  • colorful fluffy Jaf Kurd bagface. Super soft wool, borders cut top and bottom. Nice thing. 23"x 38" /
    price:  SOLD

  • Yomut Turkmen asmalyk, nice greens and blues with subtle drawing eccentricities. Cotton in the weft throughout.
    price:  Reasonable

  • Small cinnamon ground Baluch rug with a 'scorpion' boteh field.
    price:  $500

  • Caucasian sumak rug
    price:  On request

  • Old East Anatolian rug fragment, likely Kurdish
    price:  POR

  • Bashir or Uzbek rug with an ikat design (ak kymak). Fragmented, mounted, and conserved, 3'1"x4'5"
    price:  $850

  • Worn and whipped rare red-ground Timuri type Baluch rug with a Saryk border. Madder red ground with cochineal highlights. Squarish shape.
    price:  I don't even know any more

  • Camel ground Sistan Baluch balisht with crisply drawn ashiks.
    price:  $250

  • Baluch flatwoven sofreh, camel-ground with a field of repeat abstracted trees. a couple of silk highlights. Nice ends with some weft float. ... read more
    price:  $550

  • Small Baluch flatwoven salt bag
    price:  $250

  • Oldest of this type around. Large Kizyl Ayak Turkmen chuval, very old with a great weave, floppy handle, great spacing, and rich ... read more
    price:  $500

  • Tekke ensi fragment with good age and some very interesting features.
    price:  $250 + shipping

  • Kirghiz fragment found in Tibet, older than any Kirghiz piece I've seen with an ancient aesthetic. ... It appears to be quite ... read more
    price:  more than most sane people would pay... a lot... approaching ransom

  • Tekke Turkmen tent band fragment. Nice narrow one, 8.5"x75".
    price:  $850

  • Timuri Baluch bagface with shrubs in a lattice, super polychromatic blue.
    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

  • Joft-knotted Khorosan / Herat minakhani fragment, circa 1800 or a little earlier, cotton warp, wool weft group, fantastic drawing and color. It ... read more
    price:  $650

  • Armenian Lenkoran fragment inscribed 'Lusinia Tanielov in the year 1903'. 3'9"x6'0"
    price:  $1800

  • Masculine Sevan? Kazak, worn but actually quite a nice antique rug with personality, color, and a nice handle. 4'4"x7'4"
    price:  $850

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish rug with a star border and 'Memling gul'design
    price:  POR

  • 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:  $850

  • Baluch camel ground rug with an asmalyk design and minakhani border. Camel warp as well. Size is about 3'6"x 7".
    price:  POR

  • 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:  $450

  • Varamin torba, fantastic wool, floppy handle, and high pile. This piece is a tactile delight!
    price:  $1200

  • Nice old worn Shirvan rug, 4x8ish, with a fine weave and nice color.

  • Baluch 'crypto prayer rug'? with a dramatic border break at the top and blue and white silk knots punctuating a line about ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • 3 fragments comprising the remains of a fantastic and colorful red-wefted East Anatolian Kurdish divan cover.
    price:  on request

  • Turkmen Middle Amu Darya region torba or trapping with an ikat derived field and stylized floral border. 4'0"x1'7"
    price:  $350

  • Baluch single wefted minakhani bag face, large, healthy pile, classic drawing, saturated natural color, soft and bouncy. 35"x27"
    price:  SOLD

  • Border detail from a Safavid era Kerman 'vase technique' carpet fragment.

  • very very old Khotan or Gansu polka dot fragment with archaic border
    price:  SOLD

  • Pair of complete green-ground Baluch khorjin. Western Afghanistan, color is really good and difficult to capture. Subtle idiosyncratic drawing improvisations throughout. Great ... read more
    price:  $450

  • Caucasian Kuba rug, old, superlative color, lots of wear. 3'6"x5'6"ish
    price:  on request

  • Baluch balisht, Sistan type with camel wool kilim back. Older than most, a good one.
    price:  $350

  • Arab Baluch rug, very jazzy, about 3x5ish, open right.
    price:  $375

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bagface. Fantastic saturated colors against a slightly corrosive slate-green ground. Amazing wool. Super yummy.
    price:  POR

  • Northwest Persian runner with all natural dyes including 4 blues and undyed camel wool. 2'6"x8'8", great size.
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch balisht, older Sistan type with botehs, nice and thin, fine weave and saturated color.
    price:  $200

  • Blasted but Beautiful Ersari / Middle Amu Darya ikat inspired Central Asian chuval. Rough condition but old and thin with a soulful ... read more
    price:  $250

  • 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:  $1200

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish Sauj Bulagh rug with step diamonds, nice color with aubergine.
    price:  POR

  • 'Timuri' type Baluch prayer rug, nice colors and excellent condition.
    price:  Inexpensive

  • Central Asian Turkmen chuval with an ikat 'aq qaymaq' design. Great scale!
    price:  SOLD

  • Qashqai bagface, mounted and conserved
    price:  $650

  • Classic Baluch star bag. Old, worn, at least one highlight with cochineal silk. The 4eal deal. 2'10"x2'2"
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch balisht or poshti with a hexagonal repeat rarely seen in this small ilongated format. Vibrant red, 2 blues, 2 purples, 2 ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Large square Jaf Kurd bag, slightly unusual layout with a particularly good white s narrow border. 3'5"x2'10"
    price:  On request