Double Flour Bag
Object type: Flour Bag
Department: Islamic Art
Date: ca. 1900
Medium: Wool (warp, ground weft, sumak weft, and pile) and goat(?) hair (braided loops); sumak extra-weft wrapping, tapestry (kilim) with dovetailing, and border pattern in complementary weft weave (front); symmetrically knotted pile (top and bottom edges); weft-faced plain weave with two areas of pattern in sumak extra-weft wrapping with twined and braided loop closures (back)
Dimensions: H. 57 1/2 in. (146.1 cm)
W. 43 in. (109.2 cm)
Classification: Textiles-Woven-Brocade
Geography: From    Western Iran Bakhtiari tribe 
Credit line: Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg, 2015
Accession year: 2015