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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • 18th century Central Anatolian Konya / Cappadocia long rug. Large woolly knots on a coarse foundation consisting of goat hair, un-dyed and ... read more
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  • Yomut Tauk Nuska Gol Main carpet. Old but damaged. Very nicely drawn minors.
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  • very large East Anatolian Kurdish corridor carpet. Natural colors and thick shagy wool. Nice localized / tribalized rendition of the classical 'star ... read more
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  • book : 'Greek Embroidery : 17th - 19th Century, Collections in the Victoria & Albert Museum ' Perhaps the finest and ... read more
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  • fragmented Tekke Turkmen Ensi with silk highlights (and one knot of cotton)Very soft handle.
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  • small symmetrically knotted Baluch rug with fantastic color (including three greens, several blues, pink, orange, purple and chocolate brown) and a simple ... read more
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  • Nice older nw Persian Karadag, unfortunate victim of vivasection but with very nice drawing, saturated color and quality wool.
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  • Early and exceptional small Kuba type Caucasian rug. a lot more cotton in the foundation than might be expected. Obvious condition issues ... read more
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  • Very interesting and very dirty small damaged Shirvan type Caucasian rug with C-gul references and a central square reminiscent of sumakh bags. ... read more
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  • small North Indian tempura painting on textile with lotuses and fish. Perhaps Kotah? circa 18th century?
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  • Late Safavid silk textile fragment with boteh and chrsanthamum on a blue ground. (detail is of the back).
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  • Caucasian Blossom or Dragon Carpet Fragment. Great purple and green and very graphic border (2'0'' x 1'5'')
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  • East Anatolian Kurdish rug with a nice color range including both insect and vegetable reds.
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  • camel ground Kazak with bold drawing, a pale palette, soft wool and condition issues. 4'3''x6'3''(1.3 x 1.9 m)
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  • very ernest small camel ground Baluch tile rug with an intriguing hexagon border 4'4'' x 2'8''(1.32 x 83)[including ends]
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  • Turkmen Chuval. Middle Amu Darya ( Oxus River ) area. Very nice colors, blue and green. Damaged on the sides.
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  • Super-Soft small Arab Baluch rug. All colors are natural and beautiful.
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  • Fantastic Fragment of an 18th century East Anatolian rug with superior colors including purple.
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  • Kurdish ( Saj Bulaq? ) shrub rug with oscillating lattices radiating from rosettes framing 5 varieties of flowering plants stemming from pots.
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  • Plush Tekke Turkmen ensi. Squarish format measuring 124x135cm (4'1''x4'5'' )Very nice un-dyed natural browns and interesting sainak formation on the sides and ... read more
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  • the same Baluch square middle bag that i posted earlier with better less washed-out images.
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  • Turkmen chuval. Mostly asymmetrically knotted open left, but with some bands of symmetrical knots in the lower border. Dark wefts, unusual palette. ... read more
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  • blitzed blue-ground Baluch prayer rug with a green tree in the field
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  • Long Caucasian Kazak with a Harshang border and a pink lattice on a darker pink field. Worn and torn but with sides ... read more
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  • Really Really Wrecked Lesghi design rug. Thick pile and big holes. Super saturated color and whimsical drawing with animals, people and people ... read more
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  • small Caucasian Dragon Carpet fragment
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  • Baluch bagface with a tiled octagon pattern on a red ground. This piece is asymmetrically knotted, relatively coarsely woven and has extremely ... read more
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  • Baluch bagface with a checkerboard pattern. Nice natural purple outlined with blue. Good condition with original sides and kilim ends. 51x 54 ... read more
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  • archaic Baluch square middle bag with wear and corrosion, great saturated colors (These images are very washed out. There is actually a ... read more
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  • small camel ground Baluch prayer rug with hands and feet . 70x 110 cm(27''x43''). Finely woven with all good colors
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  • Kizylayak Turkmen bag, 107x56 cm (42''x22'') Obvious condition issues but a genuine antique Turkmen piece with all natural colors.
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  • small asymmetrically knotted Baluch rug with ghurbagheh (frog) motifs. 79x114 cm (31''x46'' inches)Nice all natural color. (For a related piece see ''Oriental ... read more
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  • Arab Baluch Minakhani main carpet
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  • Central Anatolian kilim fragment. probably 18th century.
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  • Cute Little Green Coptic Chicken ( 7 cm long )
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  • Coptic textile square with a horse and rider. Late Antique / Byzantine Egypt circa 6th century. This piece was probaby a tabula ... read more
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  • Epirus embroidery fragment from Ottoman era Greece. This piece is currently framed. The embroidery measures 38 x 34 cm.
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  • Qashqai, southwest Persia small bagface (chanteh?) very soft wool. Pile section measures apx. 1 foot square. Great colors and nice ... read more
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  • camel ground Baluch tree rug with a minakhani border. Very soft wool.
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  • Tekke Main Carpet
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  • East Anatolian Fragment Possibly Kurdish with Memling Guls
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  • Luri rug with animals and people. apx. 4'x7'
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  • several small fragments of an 18th century jufti knotted Khorosan / ne Persian minakhani carpet. (protoBaluch or protoDorokhsh ?)
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  • covoare turceŞti (turkish carpets) Thin Romanian paperback book published for an exhibition held in Bucharest in 1994 at the Art Collections Museum ... read more
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  • treasure of khan kubrat: culture of bulgars, khazars, slavs paperback catalog of over 300 objects from the cultures of the western steppe ... read more
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  • Central Asian squarish main rug. Uzbek, Kyrgyz, or something else depending on your dogma. Very nice drawing, saturated natural colors and camel ... read more
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  • broderii turceŞti (turkish embroideries) 1997 paperback catalog by Alexandra Baldescu of the Romanian National Museum of Art. a collection of 18th and ... read more
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  • covoare turceŞti (turkish carpets) Thin Romanian paperback book published for an exhibition held in Bucharest in 1994 at the Art Collections Museum ... read more
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