Mae Festa 50 Years of Collecting Textiles - Peter Pap Oriental Rugs

MIDDLE EAST – Kurdistan
Bag Face (Khorjin)
Late 19 th Century
Jaf/Kurd People, Iran/Iraq border
Wool face, cut pile. Fragments of closure panels
and supplementary weft decoration at top.
61 x 42 cm 24 x 16½ in
This is a fragment of a complete double bag that might
have been used on a donkey, but more likely was woven
for sale. The pile is soft and deep. There are very few
complete Jaf/Kurd khorjin, as dealers cut them apart
to sell as small mats. The Jaf wove few rugs, but also
distinctive kilims.
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