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Bengali Kantha featuring an off-center mandala with reciprocal panels on top and bottom. The central mandala is squished to one side by three elephants and one horse form. The top and bottom panels both feature a row of plant forms that blossom into birds. Soft red, blue, and yellow on a soft pink ground.

Pink Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'8 x 3'10

Antique Nakshi Kantha featuring an off-center mandala with three reciprocal panels on top and bottom. The panels feature an elephant, a person on horseback, and what appears to be a rendition of the British hunter motif. It is framed by an alternating rosette and leaf border reminiscent of the classical egg and dart style. At the four corners of the border is a single rosette.

Antique Circus Nakshi Kantha - 1'1 x 1'8

Antique pastel Kantha featuring a central mandala with pinwheels at its focal point as well as its four flanks. The patterning is a variation of different abstracted forms consistent in form as well as color with a limited palette of navy and red faded to soft pink on a white cotton ground. The consistency is slightly thrown by some moments where the original red has not faded packing a small punch. The red moments in combination with the pinwheels give this piece a hypnotic effect.

Antique Hypnotic Nakshi Kantha - 2'1 x 2'2

Antique Kantha featuring a central floral mandala with vegetal forms in each cornice. It has a limited palette of various red and black threads on plain white cotton ground. The red and black threads were likely harvested and reused from old clothing. A mixed border of local fish (Ilish) on the vertical and birds (Doyel) on the horizontal frame the whole. Look closely to notice two small birds in one cornice.

Antique Lotus Nakshi Kantha - 1'11 x 2'4

Bengali Kantha featuring a large central bouquet of flowers in a vase flanked by four smaller bouquets in vases. The leaves of the central bouquet are also interestingly rounded into pinwheel form. The outer border was taken from an old sari edge and reattached around the perimeter. The words

Bengali Script Nakshi Kantha - 2'4 x 2'8

Antique Kantha featuring a vibrant central lotus mandala on a colorful backdrop of abstracted forms and pinwheels. The pattern flares out from the center in a series of concentric squares with concave corners that make room for pinwheels on the diagonal. Great visual movement and energy appear to emanate outwards like a firework exploding in slow motion.

Concentric Nakshi Kantha - 1'11 x 2'

Antique Kantha featuring a detailed weblike central mandala flanked by four blossoming bouquet cornices. Each is similar yet distinctive and pokes and squishes the mandala distorting its form. The simple rendition is energized by colorful and vibrant leaf-like forms in red, blue, orange, and green cutting across the white cotton field at various angles. The whole is framed by a thin, red

Colorful Nakshi Kantha - 2' x 2'3

Antique Bengali Kantha featuring a field full of columns from pinwheels and floral meanders to zig zags and simple shapes. Crisply and meticulously rendered with a wide and vibrant color palette on a white cotton ground. Framed around the perimeter by mixed scroll borders of flower buds on the vertical and pinwheels on the horizontal.

Antique Nakshi Kantha - 2'4 x 2'11

This Vintage Peruvian Kilim features three concentric diamonds with a

Vintage Peruvian Kilim - 1'8 x 4'6

$275.00 Sold out

A pardeh is used for a variety of purposes including partitioning tents, covering textiles or for special ceremonies and rituals like weddings. They are warp facing and flatwoven in narrow panels which are later stitched together. sivas kurdish pardeh

Antique Kurdish Pardeh - 4'11 x 14'

This Signed Tigers Needlepoint features a pair of tigers lounging amongst tall grass and wildflowers. It is simple and straightforward yet still striking in its warmth and beauty. The tigers are impeccably executed and stand out against the open cream backdrop and are perfectly framed by three increasingly wider bands of red, black, and copper. The intitials

Signed Tigers Needlepoint - 4'9 x 6'8

This particular quilt was composed during the height of this movement and epitomizes the Victorian design sense. It features an incredible amount of symbols, detailed needlework, and a variety of fabrics giving it a powerful graphic impact. The symbols range from cats, crescent moons, teas sets, fans, butterflies, flowers, and even a beaded horseshoe with

Exceptional Victorian Era "1889" Crazy Quilt - 4'10 x 5'1

Woven Apsara Wall Textile - 2'5 x 2'8

This Midcentury Moroccan Shawl is very finely woven of soft wool and features horizontal bands in black, white, and purple with moments of colorful turquoise and creamsicle. Other those few unadorned colorful moments all the other stripes feature a black and white chain stitch embossed through their center.

Midcentury Moroccan Shawl - 3'10 x 6'4

This Vintage Peruvian Kilim features a grid of diagonally repeating squares full of various abstracted shapes and symbols. It is woven in two panels which are sewn together and utilize tones of soft cochineal purples, undyed browns, and greens with pops of yellow. The colors and style suggest it was woven by the talented weavers in the Ayacucho region. Very soft and lightweight, can double as a multifunctional textile or wall tapestry.

Vintage Peruvian Kilim - 3'10 x 5'3

This Three Elephant Kantha features a main panel with a central flower surrounded by organic flowering vines and free-flowing running stitches. The bottom panel has a lovely rendition of three elephants. Elephants are a very auspicious and potent symbol in local culture. They represent wisdom and strength as well as having regal and divine connotations dependent on the intention of the artisan.

Three Elephant Kantha - 2'9 x 3'9

$950.00 Sold out

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