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Rugs for the sake of rugs

  • Quarky Southwest Persian Qashqai bagfaces, soft wool, diverse color. Rounded top of central diamond, concaved bottom.
    price:  SOLD

  • Afahar chanteh, all good colors, 3/4 of bottom border rewoven
    price:  SOLD

  • Super velvety, saturated Turkmen rug fragment with two gul variants; temurchin guls and tauk-nuskka. This is an old one, most probably middle ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Ottoman embroidery fragment with classical drawing, likely 17th century, 3'6"x1'6"
    price:  SOLD

  • Symmetrically knotted Baluch rug with a Mushwani type diamond design. Some wear and old attempts at restoration. Dynamic and fun with nice ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch bird bag face with green and blue birds with polka dots. Super plush, soft, fluffy wool. Very appealing. But it now or ... read more
    price:  SOLD

  • East Anatolian Kurdish yastik. This pieces uses several talismanic knots of either horse or possibly human hair in areas of the bottom. ... read more
    price:  $450

  • 'Der thrakische Silberschatz aus Rogosen Bulgarien' German text published in Bulgaria with copious color and black and white plates of gold and ... read more
    price:  $20 plus shipping

  • Kirshehir yastik. Fantastic purple, indigo sulphonic
    price:  $750 plus postage

  • Makri rug with double cartouche field.
    price:  POR

  • Freaky-fine Baluch flatweave, almost like a sheet of paper or canvas. Very difficult to photograph. White cotton highlights, yarn as thin as ... read more
    price:  SOLD

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

  • Caucasian sumak rug
    price:  On request

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

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

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

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

  • Small antique Tibetan rug, all natural colors
    price:  SOLD

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

  • 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:  SOLD

  • Baluch camel ground prayer rug with large ashik like design, black animal hair weft, tight thick weave, condition is quite messed up ... read more
    price:  SOLD

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

  • Baluch bird bag face with a curled leaf border
    price:  SOLD

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

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

  • Northwest Persian Kurdish bagface with fantastic color and wool and an unusual central medallion design
    price:  SOLD

  • Kuba Perepedil rug, white ground, great condition.
    price:  SOLD

  • Assyrian jacket, eastern Syria or perhaps northern Iraq. Great condition, natural colors and using portions of metal thread. a fabulous ethnographic piece.
    price:  SOLD

  • Baluch Runner, great natural colors, woven like a giant long bagface with a repeat mosaic like pattern of eight-pointed stars in a ... read more
    price:  $950

  • Early minakhani border fragment from a late 18th century jufti knotted Khorosan or Herat rug. 2'0"x1'11"
    price:  SOLD

  • so-called 'Golden Triangle' group carpet. Woven arguably in either Northwest Persia or Eastern Anatolia at a time when the border between these ... read more
    price:  POR

  • Remarkable colorful Sauj Bolagh Kurdish long rug with a step diamond field and fascinating border
    price:  SOLD

  • Afshar bagface, great color, wool, and handle
    price:  $475