Khorgeen - E.Turkey,  c1900 An old ( late 19th or early 20th century) saddle bag woven in Eastern Turkey with colours rather typical of the region – deep purple and red. The various holes and roughly repaired splits (reflected in the very reasonable price)...

Salt Bag - Baktiari, Persia Wool with cotton highlights. Typical drama of Baktiari weavers. Diamond shapes such as we see here symbolise fertility in many tribal weavings. When a failed crop or a barren sheep could spell disaster, such expressions of hope...

Salt Bag, Afshar, Persia The decorative tassles on the shoulders of this bag make imaginative use of the warps left either side of the ‘neck’ of the salt bag before it came off the loom.   Salt bags were used by shepherds to...

Salt Bag, Baktiari, SW Persia Wool with cotton highlights. Typical drama of Baktiari weavers. Diamond shapes such as we see here symbolise fertility in many tribal weavings. When a failed crop or a barren sheep could spell disaster, such expressions of hope...

Ceremonial Horse Cover, Gujarat Substantial heavy textile made specially for a wedding ceremony. Many elaborate and brightly coloured horse trappings are made especially for weddings. Many of these textiles were made and used a long ago. A few may have...

Fine Lakai Cross Stitch Sagosha - Uzbekistan Used in tribal nomadic life, in a tent, to sit on top and hold together a pile of quilts. No corner of the tent was not worthy of care and decoration. Pride and...

Fine Lakai Cross Stitch Segosha - Uzbekistan Used in tribal nomadic life, in a tent, to sit on top and hold together a pile of quilts. No corner of the tent was not worthy of care and decoration. Pride and...

Lakai - Uzbekistan The size and directional format of this suggest it may have been conceived as a prayer mat. Plants and flowers are celebratory. ' Many of these textiles were made and used a long time ago. A few...

Embroidered Djoi Namaz, (Prayer Niche or Prayer Mat) Here in its simplest form, is the mihrab, the arch form focus of prayer representing the doorway or window between this world and the next. Many of these textiles were made and...

Fine Slant Stitch Needlework Embroidered Segosha - Lakai Used in tribal nomadic life, in a tent, to sit on top and hold together a pile of quilts. No corner of the tent was not worthy of care and decoration. Pride...

Kurdish Bazou Band Silk on Cotton. Size: 72 x 16 cm