Hand woven nomadic saddlebags are a very popular area of collecting. If you're lucky enough to acquire one that's old enough to have been made for utilitarian purposes you, you are holding an important ethnographic artifact because the various nomadic groups of Persia and elsewhere starting weaving for the market in the late 19th c..
Learn about what the Sumak technique is and how it differs from a kilim. Understand the importance of good natural dyes used.
Негізгі бет Bakhtiari Sumak bagface, c. 1870
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