Turkmen Bag Face, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.

Turkmen Bag Face, 1800s. Creator: Unknown.

2-746-504 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Turkmen Bag Face, 1800s. The front of this bag, called a bag face, displays the distinctive hallmarks of the Saryk tribe. The main guls, or lobed motifs, are subdivided in quadrants and alternate with angular minor guls in staggered rows. It is the oldest known weaving of the Saryk tribe, with a soft red ground colour and white cotton and magenta silk pile highlights. Essential storage containers, bags were suspended from wall trellises inside tents and transported by pack animals during seasonal migrations. Bags were woven in one piece with pile on the upper part for the front face and plain weave on the lower part for the back face, and then folded and sewn along both sides.


Image Details


Medium
  1. 252 symmetrical rug knots per square inch
  2. Wool, silk, cotton

Picture Type
  1. Textile

Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 6668x4707
File Size : 91,952kb


Aliases

  1. 2008.223
  1. 166488
  1. 0940024828
  1. 2-746-504
  1. 2008.223
  1. 2746504

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