Inventory Number: 4218

Mafrash bag
NW Iran .
19"X15"X36"
early 20 th c
5 sided bag. 4 sides brocaded. Bottom is plain weave.
Wool.
Good condition - some wear

$725.

Inventory Number: 4220

Mafrash
Azerbaijan . Shahsavan
1'6"X3'
early 20 th c.
Wool.Slit tapestry weave with brocaded bands
Excellent condition

$375.

Very fine work and fine graphic. A collectable.

Inventory Number: 3786

Doube saddle bag.Khorjin.
Origin: Jaf Kurd. Iran.
Size: 2'X8'3.
Age: Early 20th c..
Wool warp. Wool weft. White cotton details.
Slit-tapestry weave with outlining. Bands of weft wrapping. Brocaded details. 

This bag is in its open position. The loops seen at bottom are used to secure the bag when it is sewn into its closed position. These are natural dyes. A lovely and collectable textile.

.Price:  $850,

Inventory Number: 3254

Kilim panel (Mafrash)
Origin: Iran. Shahsavan, Khamseh area.
Size: 42" X 44"
Age: 2nd quarter 20th c.
Wool.
Extra weft wrapping. Ends are banded plain weave.

An eye dazzling effect is achieved by the white outlining around each of the rams' horn motifs in the medallions. This intricate mafrash was probably made for the dowry of the young Shahsavan weaver to show her prowess at the loom.

Price: $ 700

Inventory Number: 3331

Pair of Saddle Bags. Khorjiin.
Origin: Iran..
Size: 1'3"X2'5"
Age: 3d quarter 20th c.
Wool. Loops are goat hair.
Extra weft-wrapping.Countered soumac. Some complimentary weft-weave..
Condition: very good.

This pair of saddle bags was ornamentally draped across the back of a donkey. With the loops laced through open slits on each side, the contents were secure.  If you have no donkey, you can display this lovely bag over the arm of a chair or couch to hold newspapers and books.

Price $250. 

Inventory Number: 3981

Pair of Saddle Bags. Khorjiin
Origin: Belouch tribe. Iran. 
Size: 1'6"X2'5"
Age: 2nd-3d quarter 20th c.
Wool foundation.Wool pile. Plain weave backs. 
Condition: Section of selvage cord needs restoration. 
Price:$300.
These deep rich colors from natural dyes are those identified with Belouchi weaving.Bags like these once carried the necessities of life for travelers on donkeys 
on donkey or horseback. A delightful artifact.,, it can be a pair of pillows on the floor in front of a fireplace, a place to store newspapers or magazines when slung over the arm of a chair or couch or art on a wall.

Inventory Number: 4311

Carpet  bag
Origin: Belouch? Western Iran?.
Size: 1'1""X 1'4"
Age: 3d quarter 20th c.
Wool. Knotted pile front. Kilim back.

A charming carrying bag, to be slung over a shoulder and/or to hang as a magazine holder.

Price: $90.

Inventory Number: 4133

Kilim panel (Mafrash)
Origin: The Caucasus.
Size: Age: Late 19th c. - 1920
Wool
Slit tapestry weave. Narrow rows of twining and banded plain weave ends.

Each of four sexagons hold a crab-shaped star closely related to the motifs in the bedding bag above #3925. Only the smaller motifs between the sexagons differ. They could have been woven by the same weaver or related weavers although this design is also woven further south by Shahsavan tribeswomen in the Khamseh area of Iran.

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Inventory Number: 3376

Kilim mat (Mafrash)
Origin: The Caucasus. Azeri Turk..
Size: 3'3" X 4'1"

Age: Late 19th or early 20th c.
Wool.
Slit tapestry weave. Bands of extra weft wrapping. End is banded plain weave.

The ancient flower and bud design called Chickak Lameh fills the center and end panels. The two wider panels hold sexagons, each filled with a crab-shaped motif.
Condition: very good.

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Inventory Number: 4166

Mafrash (Soumak panel)
Origin: The Caucasus.
Size: 3'3" X 4'6"

Age: Late 19th or early 20th c.
Wool.
Soumak weave ( a form of weft wrapping ).

The panel is a complete piece. Often a five-sided bag, also called Mafrash, is sewn in a shape called cradle with long front and back panels like this one, a plain weave bottom and two matching side panels. It is said that Shahsavan girls always proved their weaving skills by making a pair of Mafrash for their dowry.

Condition: very good.

Price: $750.

Inventory Number: 3752

Kilim seat and seat back
Origin: Turkey..
Size: Fits standard director's chair

Age: Kilim is middle 20thc.
Wool.
Slit tapestry weave. .
Mounted and bound with heavy cotton canvas.
This can be used in a home, office or a motion picture studio - anywhere. Very sturdy , handsome and a conversation piece.

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Inventory Number: 2995

Seat (throne) back
Origin: Northern China
Size: 1'11"X1'11"
Age: 3d quarter 20th c.?
Cotton foundation. Wool pile

Knotted pile(assymetrical knot)

Made for traditional Chinese chairs and for use in Tibetan monestaries, this seat back has a traditional design. The converging lines at the bottom represent mountains. .

Price: $100. 

Inventory Number: 1211

Storage/tent bag. Torba.
Origin: Yomud. Turkmen. Central Asia.
Size: 1'3"X3'
Age: 2nd quarter 20th c
Wool
Flat-woven. Face is soumac. Back is plain weave.
Condition: Excellent.

This bag was used on a pack animal during migrations and in the round tent (yurt) for storage.

Price: $225.

Inventory Number: 2658

Storage bag. Juval.
Origin: Baluch. Afghanistan.
Size: 1'11X3'10'
Age: 2nd or 3d quarter 20th c
Wool
Knotted pile front. Back is banded plain weave. Nice tasseled ends..
Condition: Excellent.

This bag was used on a pack animal for transporting goods and in the black for storage.

Price: $375.

Inventory Number: 2096

Saddle Mat

Origin:  Uzbeki, Central Asia
Size : 1'2"X4'
Age: mid-20th century
Wool.Goat hair.
Knotted pile. Symmetrical knot
Condition: Excellent.

Most pieces of this type have three guls (the tribal emblem, in this case the hoooked medallion); this one has four.

It is an unusual and colorful weaving that will bring a Central Asian touch to your interior.

Price: $250.

Inventory Number: 3760

Saddle bag (front only)
O rigin: Central Asia, Uzbeki.
Size: 3'2" X 3'8"
Age: mid 20th c.
Wool. Interlock tapestry weave. Narrow rows of twining and banded plain weave ends.

This is the face, or front, of a large saddle bag, once used on the back of a camel. The blocs of color in the top panel are separated by slits interlocked to secure the contents.

Price: $630.

Inventory Number: 2467

Woman's shawl (tamizart). Berber
Morocco . Middle Atlas
3'6"X6'
3d quarter 20 th c
Wool. Cotton. Overall brocading and reverse loose tufting
Excellent condition

$900.

As protection against winter in the mountains, the thick inwoven white shag is worn inward as insulation.

Inventory Number: 4164

Woman's shawl .
Morocco . Ait Haddidou
3'10"X6'5"
mid 20 th c

Wool. Bands of plain weave with spot brocading. Dark blue and turquoise from native indigo

Excellent condition

$850.

Inventory Number: 2466
Cape (tahddun)
Origin: Morocco. Middle Atlas mountains.
Size: 3'6"X 5'10"
Age: middle 20th c.
Wool and cotton. Plain weave with weft floats, leaving thick pile on reverse (see photo of reverse)..
Condition: Excellent
The tahddun (also called tamizart by some Middle Atlas tribes) was worn by Berber women in the cold of mountain winters. Often wrapped around a mother carrying a baby.

It would be festive used as a throw, as a hanging and/or as a dramatic outer garment. A collectible textile.

Price: $825.

+ Inventory Number: 19

Shawl (bakhnoug)
Origin: Tunisia. Southern mountains.
Size: 3'2"X 6'3"
Age: middle 20th c.
Wool and cotton. Plain weave with weft substitution weave.
Condition: Excellent
The baknoug was worn by Berber women in the cold of mountain winters and for festive occasions. It would be festive used as a throw, as a hanging and/or as a dramatic outer garment.

Price: $300.

Inventory Number: 4188

Cushion (ousada)
Origin: Morocco..
Size: 1'2"X 2'
Age: middle 20th c.
Wool. Skip plain weave, a selvage to selvage brocading technique.
Condition: Excellent
The weaving skill of the young woman is displayed in this ousada, probably made for her dowry. The complex geometric figures, primarily chevrons, appear in weaving, in pottery, in architecture and in the tattoos on Berber womens' faces.

Price: $120.

Inventory Number: 4184

Cushion (ousada)
Origin: Morocco. Middle Atlas.
Size: 19"X21"
Age: Middle 20th c. - 3d quarter 
Wool
Skip plain weave, a selvage to selvage type of brocading.

A lively and nicely woven ousada (cushion) from a Berber black tent in the Middle Atlas mountains of Morocco.

Price: $120.

Inventory Number: 2462

CAPE (moucht'iya)
Origin: Morocco. Middle Atlas.
Size: 4'X4'6"
Age: Middle 20th c. - 3d quarter 
Wool
Plain weave bands with narrow bands of brocading; in this type of skip plain weave there are supplmentary tufts on the back.
These capes are worn by Berber women as protection from the cold in the Atlas Mountains.
In the Close view you can see the amulets woven in; the eye is woven in as a protection again the evil eye.

Price: $480.

Inventory Number: 4187

Ousada (cushion)
Morocco , Middle Atlas
1'2"X2'1"
c. 1970
Wool. Brocaded.
Excellent condition

$120.

The back is red with brocaded bands.

Inventory Number: 3032

Navajo Mat
Origin: Southwest USA
Size: 1'5"X2'10"
Age: Late 19th c. - early 20th c.
Wool. Red and blue are Germantown yarn.
Tapestry weave.

Weaving these mats and saddle mats helped Navajo women support their families.  In addition to hand-spun native wool, popular yarns from eastern mills were brought in with the advent of the railroad.
Condition: fine.
Price: NOT AVAILABLE

Inventory Number: 3446

Saddle mat. Navajo.
Origin: Navajo Reservation.  Southwest USA
Size: 2'5"X3'10"
Age: Late 19th c. - early 20th c.
Wool.
Tapestry weave.

Saddle mats were purchased by cowboys and indians from the trading posts scattered around the reservation.

Condition: reds have bled.
Price: $270.

Inventory Number: 658

Double saddle mat
Origin: NAVAJO. SouthWest U.S.A..
Size: 2.6"X3.8""
Age:Late 19th c. -.
Wool, handspun
Twill weave. A Pueblo technique adopted by some Navajo weavers in the late 19th c.

Condition: very good.
This handsome twill double saddle mat has true authenticity. It speaks of the Southwest, of horses, and of the cowboy who bought it at the trading post or perhaps directly from the woman weaver.. 

Price: $500.

Inventory Number: 1355

CHIMAYO MAT
Origin: New Mexico U.S.A.

Size: 1'4"X3'1"  
Wool weft. Cotton warp

Woven by men in small villages in the Rio Grande Valleys small weavings became very popular with tourists. The medallions were adapted from the early blankets and Rio Grande wearing blankets of the area.  This was made to be used as a "table scarf" for a bureau or small able. .

Age: Probably post World War II. 

Price: $120.