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  • Small cinnamon ground Baluch rug with a 'scorpion' boteh field.
    price:  $450

  • 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

  • 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:  $650 benbanayan@hotmail.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.
    price:  POR benbana@gmail.com

  • Shahsevan pile bag face, two reds, two blues, green and gold. Red wefted, all natural color, good age
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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
    price:  SOLD

  • 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
    price:  POR 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:  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.
    price:  POR contact 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

  • 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 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

  • 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"
    price:  POR 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

  • An early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan pastiche carpet, reduced in length. Safavid era, circa 1600. a later version of this ... read more
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Detail from an early (Jufti knotted type) Herat / Khorasan carpet. Safavid era, circa 1600.
    price:  POR

  • Balkan / Macedonian? silk embroidered pair of bands. Possibly cuffs or sections from a bridal pillow. Fantastic saturated natural color. Fascinating drawing. ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • 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:  $250 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:  $350 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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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  • Small camel ground Baluch rug with floating diagonal elements excellently spaced, rustic construction with camel, wool and brindled warp, striped kilim on ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Central Asian Kungrat Uzbek embroidered ilgich with a 'Memling gul' design. Quintessentially tribal. 27"x28"
    price:  POR 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:  $2200 benbanayan@hotmail.com

  • Ivory ground Baluch salt bag, pile front, flatwoven back
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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

  • Baluch bird bag with intriguing border, fine weave, saturated natural color.
    price:  $650 contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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:  SOLD

  • 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:  High 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
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • Dokhtar-i Qazi prayer rug published in Hali 53, exhibited in the 1990 icoc.
    price:  SOLD

  • Pair of small Yomud torbas complete with original backs, chords, and tassels. All natural color. Excellent condition!
    price:  POR contact benbanayan@gmail.com

  • 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
    price:  POR benbanayan@gmail.com