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  • Antique Khotan saf, soft colors, soft wool, cool drawing. Size is 6'3"x3'1"
    price:  $550 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
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
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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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  • Six gul Tekke torba, complete with original back, velvety pile, super saturated natural color
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  • Small Gansu Chinese square with a fret medallion and butterflies
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  • Tiger pelt rug strip, Chinese weaving center for the Tibetan market, circa 1920 size is about 16"x40"
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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

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

  • Baluch sofreh with birds
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  • 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
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  • Very graphic camel ground Baluch rug with unusual geometric botehs arranged in a subtle but sophisticated repeat, creating diagonal negative space that ... read more
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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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  • Baluch rug with a small-scale embroidered design rendered in pile. Narrow border, uncommon type, 4x6ish
    price:  $350

  • Transylvanian type Ottoman prayer rug. Mounted and conserved. Former Jim Dixon collection
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  • Square-shaped Baluch rug with a repeat diamond latch-hook design. All good color with a subtle but effective use of to tone. Thick ... read more
    price:  $550

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

  • Baluch balisht, Sistan type with camel wool kilim back. Older than most, a good one.
    price:  $250 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 18th century Ionian Greek island embroidery, section of a cuff with an Italianate oak leaf and acorn meander. Probably Ionian Islands, Corfu? or ... read more
    price:  $450... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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:  SOLD

  • Inscribed Shahsevan sumak band with Memling guls and stars. Measures about 227x16cm including the macrame end finishes. The length of the sumak ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Zig-zaggy diamond Baluch with fantastic blue
    price:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Old, elegant, banded central Anatolian kilim. Excellent refined color.
    price:  SOLD

  • Fakhralo Kazak rug with Sevan influences. Dated 1310 (1892). All good colors, lustrous wool, nice handle. 4'6"x5:7"
    price:  SOLD

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

  • 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

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

  • 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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  • 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:  SOLD

  • 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:  SOLD

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

  • 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

  • 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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  • 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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