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Salor, Turkmenistan
Face of a Shallow Storage Bag (torba), early 19th
century
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This is the pile face of what was once a long,
shallow storage bag, or torba, made to hang
inside a Salor tent. The ribbed weave of the bagface, a
hallmark Salor feature, can be detected
even from the front surface. Its typically hard
wool is dyed in extremely deep, somber colors,
dramatically punctuated by the glint of violet silk
in its border and each of its main guls.
Among the Turkmen, the Salor are
reputed to have originated pile weaving. The
rugs and bags attributed to them are, like this
example, consistently well-woven, with dignified
precision of design. By the mid-i9th century,
political upheaval seems to have put an end to
the Salor weaving tradition, although a number
of guls that they used are preserved in the later
rugs of other Turkmen tribes.
J.B.
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| SIZE:
16 1/2 x 40 in. (40.6 x 101.6 cm.) |
| WARP: wool,
Z2S, depressed, 2 levels; yellow-ivory |
| WEFT: wool, Z2S x
2; brown |
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PILE:wool and silk, Z2S, asymmetrical knots
open left, design woven opposite direction to pile, h. 14, v.
22, 308 k/sq. in.; wool: yellow-ivory, dark brown, dark red,
orange-red, dark blue-green, blue-green, dark blue, dark
purple; silk: Z2S; dark purple and purple |
| ENDS: top: cut,
1 row of blue wool symmetrical
knots tied around 4 warps; bottom: cut |
| SIDES: cut, modern
overcast |
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Oriental Rugs from New England Private Collections |
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