Rug Catalogue

Rug Catalogue: All tribes
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	Kurd	Chanteh	Circa 1900	12 x 12 (in)	30 x 30 (mm)	£ 250
"A Kurd Chanteh, from NW Iran?, with long soft wool dyed with natural colours. It has kilim back woven in thick striped colour bands"
	Luri	Chanteh	Circa 1920	10 x 11 (in)	25 x 28 (mm)	£ 200
A Luri Chanteh with cross design. Piled face with a striped Kilim back. In good condition except for about 10 knots eaten by moths. The orange colour is probably synthetic
	Luri	Salt bag	late 19th Century	14 x 16 (in)	36 x 41 (mm)	£ 375
"A Luri Salt Bag, with deep satuarted colours and a striped flatwoven back. "
	Luri	Chanteh Bag Face	circa 1900	9 x 7 (in)	23 x 17 (mm)	£ 225
"A Luri Chanteh face, or child's bag face? This strange piece with a design I have previously not seen was bought in the Tehran Bazaar 20 years ago, it was also unknown to the dealer who sold it. It could well be a practice piece by an apprentice weaver. The wool is long and soft with vibrant natural colours."
	Luri	Double Saddle Bags	Dated 1910	13 x 30 (in)	33 x 76 (mm)	£ 650
A near perfect Luri Double Saddle Bags woven in saturated natural colours onto deep soft wool. Unusually it is dated 1328 and is signed 'Made (by) Fatimeh Bekom. The back is striped flatweave with some slight staining.
	Luri	Salt Bag	late 19th Century	18 x 16 (in)	41 x 46 (mm)	£ 400
"A Luri Salt Bag, SW Persia, Late 19th Century. A coarsely knotted salt bag with deep saturated colours."
	Luri	Chanteh	late 19th Century	11 x 11 (in)	28 x 28 (mm)	£ 250
"A SW Persian Lors Tribes Chanteh, good colours and general condition, although sides bound by blue cloth and signs or wear. "
	Manistir	Yastik	late 19th Century	29 x 24 (in)	74 x 61 (mm)	£ 450
"A finely woven Manastir Kilim yastik produced in the Balkans at the end of the Ottoman period. The white is a coarse spun natural cotton, whilst the other colours are wool, dyed in the traditional palette of this region"
	NW Persian Kurd	Salt Bag	late 19th Century	20 x 17 (in)	51 x 43 (mm)	£ 475
"Kurd Salt Bag with an unusual design that includes a comb & bird. In good condition and colour, with slight corrosion to the white wool."
	Quashquai	Bag Face Fragment	mid 19th Century	23 x 21 (in)	58 x 53 (mm)	£ 275
A finely woven early Quashquai Bag Face fragment. Woven in soft wool and a wide range of vibrant colours this piece had been cut to use as a chair cover and attacked by moth.
	Quashquai	Chanteh	circa 1900	12 x 16 (in)	30 x 41 (mm)	£ 275
"A flat woven Quasquai Chanteh in excellent condition woven in vibrant natural colours. The front face has a soft hooked lattice design whilst the reverse face has cross designs woven onto a stunning red back ground. Three of four tassels remain, one without an end. "
	Quashquai (Kashkuli)	Bag Face	circa 1875	8 x 10 (in)	20 x 26 (mm)	£ 225
An unusual Quasquai (Kashkuli) Bag Face fragment. Cotton foundation and heavily ribbed back indicates that this is a village made Quasqai piece. This cross design is rare in Quasqai literature and with only a single piece published.
	Quasqu'ai	Purse	Circa 1920	7 x 6 (in)	18 x 15 (mm)	£ 175
"A small Quasquai purse with a piled front and decorative kilim back. The piece is in excellent condition, but some of the dyes are synthetic."
	Quasqu'ai	Bag	Circa 1900	13 x 13 (in)	33 x 33 (mm)	£ 300
"A half of a Khorjin is in good condition, full pile and deeply saturated colours. A similar piece can be seen in Woven Gardens, plate 32"
	Shahsavan	child's saddlebags	mid 19th Century	20 x 7 (in)	51 x 18 (mm)	£ 350
"A Shahsavan child's flatwoven double saddlebags. The bag is mounted on a frame with black linen fabric. Embroidered with rows of animals and flowers, this piece is a reflection of a lost tribal art."
	Shahsavan	Chanteh	mid 19th Century	6 x 6 (in)	15 x 15 (mm)	£ 275
"A reverse Sumak Shahsavan Chanteh, possibly Hastrud-Mianeh. Warps are a mixture of both cotton and wool strands. It has the remains (about 75% of a striped kilim back. "
	Shahsavan	Flat woven bags	late 19th Century	27 x 11 (in)	68 x 28 (mm)	£ 250
Woven in camel wool and then embroidered with sheeps wool dyed saturated natural colours. This small double saddle bag could have been made by or for a child. The fastening loops have become detatched but otherwise in good condition.
	Tekke	Chuval	Circa 1900	46 x 22 (in)	1.17 x 56 (mm)	£ 550
"A finely woven 15 Gul Tekke Chuval. Made with grainy wool and glowing natural colours, one very small area of moth damage "
	Tekke	Torba Fragment	mid 19th Century	17 x 42 (in)	43 x 107 (mm)	£ 575
A 12 Guk Tekke Torba fragment with glowing colours. The velvet like wool is in good pile except some small areas of corrosion or insect damage to dark brown. Missing side borders and two small holes.
	Tibetan	Head Decoration	circa 1910	11 x 10 (in)	28 x 26 (mm)	£ 200
Used for decorating the heads of sheep or goats during religious ceremonies this piece contains synthetic dyes..

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