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$375.00 Original price was: $375.00.$318.00Current price is: $318.00.
This small vibrant carpet square with fringed edges can be used for meditation to sit on, an accent piece or hung on a wall. Made from wool and natural dyes,…
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$185.00 Original price was: $185.00.$157.25Current price is: $157.25.
H: 10.5″ W: 10.5″ D: 0.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Hand made in a folder style, this Bolivian religious document holder possibly used for priests’ sermons or other important documents, is decorated on each side with brocaded purple fabric with gold thread. The finely brocaded stylized and symbolic passion flower designs are framed by geometric and curved gold borders and the inside and ends are lined in red fabric. Our images do not do it justice as they cannot capture light flickers from the interwoven gold threads and vibrant gold floral patterns.
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$195.00 Original price was: $195.00.$165.75Current price is: $165.75.
This antique brocaded document or bible cover from Bolivia is decorated with symbolic stylized flowers widely used in Christianity: passion flowers and roses. Nicolas Monardes, a 16th century Spanish doctor…
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$495.00 Original price was: $495.00.$420.75Current price is: $420.75.
H: 30″ W: 29.5″ D: 2.125″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
Striking colorful Indian beaded tapestries (torans) like this are placed in home doorways and thresholds and symbolize warmth, positivity, and protection. Especially popular in Gujrat they are used to attract Hindu goddess Lakshmi to bless the family and bring prosperity, fertility and birth of children. It is embellished with symbols that attract good spirits and ward off evil ones – a monkey, horse, peacocks and the Tree of Life.
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$375.00 Original price was: $375.00.$284.75Current price is: $284.75.
This rug was made in China for Vajrayana/Tibetan Buddhists who were taught this form of Buddhism by Tibetan monks invited there to teach Tibetan Buddhism. Rugs like this were made…
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$95.00 Original price was: $95.00.$80.75Current price is: $80.75.
H: 18″ W: 18″ | FREE SHIPPING!
Woven from strands of raffia palm leaves, this vintage Kuba cloth reflects the traditional fabric traditions of the Kuba people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a typically bordered square with rough textural surfaces interspersed with repeated geometric patterns and embellished with sophisticated embroidered, applique and patchwork linear designs of interlocking meandering patterns of vegetable dye shades of dark brown and ivory in a natural flat-weave pattern framed with tufted-cut pile raffia and applique.
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$95.00 Original price was: $95.00.$80.75Current price is: $80.75.
H: 14″ W: 21 ” | FREE SHIPPING!
Woven from strands of raffia palm leaves, this vintage Kuba cloth reflects the traditional fabric traditions of the Kuba people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a typically bordered square with rough textural surfaces interspersed with repeated geometric patterns and embellished with sophisticated embroidered, applique and patchwork linear designs of interlocking meandering patterns of vegetable dye shades of dark brown and ivory in a natural flat-weave pattern framed with tufted-cut pile raffia and applique.
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$785.00 Original price was: $785.00.$667.25Current price is: $667.25.
H: 15″ W: 9″ D: 9″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
Vintage “crowns” called an ile ori the “house of the head,” were cowrie shell shrine made to show gratitude for and recognition of the power of the head and manifest Yoruba ideas of individuality and authority. Not meant to be worn they are often placed on altars for prayer and divination and can be a symbol of a Yoruba deity. This headdress with an impressive design was included in the San Francisco International Airport, “Crowning Achievements” exhibition in April-August, 1994. It comes with a Lucite stand.
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