Double Flour Bag
Object type: Bag
Department: Islamic Art
Date: last quarter 19th century
Medium: Wool (warp, sumak weft, and pile), cotton (ground weft), and goat(?) hair (braided loops); weft-faced plain weave with pattern in sumak extra-weft wrapping (front); symmetrically knotted pile (top and bottom edges); weft-faced plain weave with pattern in sumak extra-weft wrapping and twined and braided loop closures (back)
Dimensions: H. 40 1/2 in. (102.9 cm)
W. 56 in. (142.2 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