Brian MacDonald Antique Rugs & Carpets has dated this piece to the 1880s.

This fabulous bag, made by Shekarlu nomads within the Qashqa’i Confederacy in Fars Province, south-west Persia circa 1880, has a sumptious knotted-pile with beautiful vegetable colours and a lattice design of symbolic motifs on the face. On the back are horizontal bands of red, blue and a stunning pea-green in plain-weave technique. The top opening retains its tie-slits in soumak technique with the remains of the ties on the inside.
This is a truly rare and amazing survivor of a long, lost art.
Size: 30cm (12") square.
Brian MacDonald Antique Rugs & Carpets has dated this piece to the 1880s.
Dealing in antique and old tribal rugs, dowry weavings and decorative carpets from the near east and central asia since 1979.
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