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    Baluch star bag with polychromatic blue, a blue-green and cinnamon ground. Looks older than most but worn.1 knot of cotton in lower ... read more
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    price:  $250

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    Shahsevan (or South Persian?) banded jajim with designs drawn in float technique. 3'6"x5'8"
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    price:  $300

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    colorful fluffy Jaf Kurd bagface. Super soft wool, borders cut top and bottom. Nice thing. 23"x 38" /
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    price:  $200

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    Yomut Turkmen asmalyk, nice greens and blues with subtle drawing eccentricities. Cotton in the weft throughout.
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    price:  Reasonable

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

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    Small cinnamon ground Baluch rug with a 'scorpion' boteh field.
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    price:  $500

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    Baluch rug with serrated ashik-like tile design and a leaf border. Several blues, nice color in general. Goat hair side selvedge. 3'6"x6'3"
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    price:  $450

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    Caucasian sumak rug
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    price:  On request

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    Bijar directional niched or prayer rug. Unusual format, great color. 3'10"x4'10"
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    price:  On request

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    Old East Anatolian rug fragment, likely Kurdish
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    price:  POR

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

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    Symmetrically knotted Baluch rug with a Mushwani type diamond design. Some wear and old attempts at restoration. Dynamic and fun with nice ... read more
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    price:  $450

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    Worn and whipped rare red-ground Timuri type Baluch rug with a Saryk border. Madder red ground with cochineal highlights. Squarish shape.
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    Camel ground Sistan Baluch balisht with crisply drawn ashiks.
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    price:  $250

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    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
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    price:  $550

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    Small Baluch flatwoven salt bag
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    price:  $250

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    Oldest of this type around. Large Kizyl Ayak Turkmen chuval, very old with a great weave, floppy handle, great spacing, and rich ... read more
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    price:  $500

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    Tekke ensi fragment with good age and some very interesting features.
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    price:  $250 + shipping

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    Kirghiz fragment found in Tibet, older than any Kirghiz piece I've seen with an ancient aesthetic. ... It appears to be quite ... read more
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    price:  more than most sane people would pay... a lot... approaching ransom

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    Tekke Turkmen tent band fragment. Nice narrow one, 8.5"x75".
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    price:  $850

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

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    Very Old Central Asian / Uzbek main carpet with crosses in octagons. Great saturated and diverse color with an amazing border of ... read more
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    price:  On request

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    Joft-knotted Khorosan / Herat minakhani fragment, circa 1800 or a little earlier, cotton warp, wool weft group, fantastic drawing and color. It ... read more
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    price:  $650

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

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

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    Large (5'1" x 8'3" 155x252cm) East Anatolian Yatak with harshang and other ornament (alien cyclopses?)
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    price:  $8,700

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

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    Baluch camel ground prayer rug with large ashik like design, black animal hair weft, tight thick weave, condition is quite messed up ... read more
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    price:  $250

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    Bergama area Anatolian Turkish rug, an early rendition of this uncommon type with saturated color and open drawing, silk knots in the ... read more
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    price:  $5500

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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)
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    price:  $450

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    Unusual Baluch prayer rug with dark natural undyed camel wool and saturated natural dyes. An eccentric rendering of a classic design type ... read more
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    price:  $850

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

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    Good rug bad picture, Baluch Mushwani type prayer rug, all natural colors, (can't quite get them right in photos) lots of aubergine, ... read more
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    price:  $450

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

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    Nice old worn Shirvan rug, 4x8ish, with a fine weave and nice color.
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    Larger than normal Baluch rug with unusual geometric botehs arranged in a subtle but sophisticated repeat creating graphic diagonal negative space that ... read more
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    price:  $850

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    Baluch 'crypto prayer rug'? with a dramatic border break at the top and blue and white silk knots punctuating a line about ... read more
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    price:  SOLD

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    3 fragments comprising the remains of a fantastic and colorful red-wefted East Anatolian Kurdish divan cover.
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    price:  on request

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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"
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    price:  $350

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    Baluch single wefted minakhani bag face, large, healthy pile, classic drawing, saturated natural color, soft and bouncy. 35"x27"
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    price:  SOLD

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    Border detail from a Safavid era Kerman 'vase technique' carpet fragment.
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    very very old Khotan or Gansu polka dot fragment with archaic border
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    price:  SOLD

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    Pair of complete green-ground Baluch khorjin. Western Afghanistan, color is really good and difficult to capture. Subtle idiosyncratic drawing improvisations throughout. Great ... read more
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    price:  $450

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    Starburst Caucasian Zeichur rug with a dark corroded ground, very colorful with a sculptural effect.
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    price:  $850

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

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    Baluch balisht, Sistan type with camel wool kilim back. Older than most, a good one.
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    price:  $350

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

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    Arab Baluch rug, very jazzy, about 3x5ish, open right.
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    price:  $375