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The small squarish format is not common among
Turkmen bags, and this is the smallest such Yomud that we know. The
main field design is also rare, as is the usage of eight-pointed
stars in the field and main border (There is a mafrash with similar
design in Hali 87). The seller claimed that the piece had originally
been an okbash whose lappets were removed, but the small size,
vertical warps, and plain-colored border on all four sides don’t fit
with this theory, while the remnants of a colorful fringe at the
bottom strongly suggest that this is, indeed, a bagface.
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