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  • 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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  • Arab Baluch rug with very glossy wool and several blues
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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

  • 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

  • Baluch balisht, Sistan type with camel wool kilim back. Older than most, a good one.
    price:  $250 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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  • Baluch double-sided sumak salt bag with a design seemingly derived from a Turkmen tentband, one side more worn than the other, still ... read more
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  • Old East Anatolian rug fragment, likely Kurdish
    price:  $750 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small camel ground Baluch rug with floating diagonal elements excellently spaced, rustic construction with camel, wool and brindled warp, striped kilim on ... read more
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  • Pair of complete green-ground Baluch khorjin with aubergine. Western Afghanistan, color is really good and difficult to capture. Subtle idiosyncratic drawing improvisations ... read more
    price:  $450 contact 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:  $850 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Elegant small Baluch sofreh with an abstract tree floating against a camel ground. Great color and graphic cohesion. Wonderful use of all ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Complete Baluch khorjin set, snowflake / blossom design. One of the oldest complete Baluch saddle bags I've ever seen, if not the ... read more
    price:  SOLD

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

  • Multi flatweave technique complete Baluch salt bag. Uncommon leaf design sometimes found on Baluch pile ghurbaghe rugs, beautiful colorful striped back.
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  • Baluch multi-flatweave technique salt bag with a particularly finely rendered striped weft brocaded field. Not common, a good thing.
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  • Small Baluch flatwoven salt bag
    price:  $250

  • Complete sumak khorjin double saddle bag set. Diverse color with a little bit of an orange that seems iffy.
    price:  $1200 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • East Anatolian Kurd long pile fluffy rug on a striped kilim. Not sure what these are called but this is a good ... read more
    price:  $4,800 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Yomut / Karadashli main carpet with tauk-nuska guls. Fantastic Elena, particularly at the top, great condition. 165x265cm
    price:  $9,800 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Large Baluch complete bag with octagon star in square middle. Super glossy wool, floppy handle, and complete flatwoven back still attached. Recently ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • early 'vase carpet-esque' Josheghan fragment strip including borders and field.
    price:  $450 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Tall camel ground Baluch prayer rugs with copious silk highlights, some damage at the top, beautiful flatwoven ends which have been reattached. ... read more
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  • 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 benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Squarish shaped camel ground Baluch prayer rug, probably Zabol area, Sistan and Baluchistan, Southeast Persia, nice thing, 2'8"x3'4"
    price:  $450 contact... benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Tekke ensi fragment with good age and some very interesting features.
    price:  $250 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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

  • 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 rug with a small-scale embroidered design rendered in pile. Narrow border, uncommon type, 4x6ish
    price:  $350

  • Arab Baluch rug, very jazzy, about 3x5ish, open right.
    price:  $275

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

  • Salor Turkmen main carpet fragment, beautiful color, copious silk, all the bells and whistles
    price:  SOLD

  • 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

  • Large, very rustic / tribal Baluch prayer rug. Amazingly soft wool, all good colors.verx unusual back. Lots of Aubergine! Western Afghanistan, perhaps ... read more
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  • Complete Baluch khorjin set, snowflake / blossom design. One of the oldest complete Baluch saddle bags I've ever seen, if not the ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch double-sided flatwoven salt bag, tribal region, Northwest frontier, an old one with great color and execution, old repair in one side ... read more
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  • Double-sided pile Baluch salt bag, Sistan area, great condition complete with goat hair carrying chord, 36x50cm
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  • Complete antique Baluch balisht. Great wool , saturated natural color, complete striped back and gist hair fasteners still intact.
    price:  $650 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Central Anatolian yastik, nice type
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  • Small Baluch chanteh bag with a very uncommon design. Pile front , flat woven back with some leather
    price:  $550 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Baluch double sided pile small chanteh bag, all good colors, glossy wool. probably Sistan region
    price:  $450 benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Small Khotan rug, good colors, areas of restoration
    price:  SOLD

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

  • Baluch camel ground prayer rug with animals, abstracted shrubs, and a Shi'a inscription that reads, 'Allah, Muhammad, Ali, Hassan, Hussein' kilim ends
    price:  $2200

  • Baluch octagon star bag face with animal trains and copious silk highlights. 28"x24" This piece has a great presence and displays well. Some ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Bijar directional niched or prayer rug. Unusual format, great color. 3'10"x4'10"
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  • Velvety Khorosan Baluch bird bag. 5x5 birds, great condition.
    price:  SOLD