Double Flour Bag

Unknown maker

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)
Department: Islamic Art
Classification: Textiles-Woven-Brocade
Dated: last quarter 19th century
Pixels: 4000 × 2797
SHA-256: 19ba13450c495fe0…
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License, verbatimCC0

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Open Access, Creative Commons Zero (CC0). Flagged isPublicDomain=true in the museum's own record.

Double Flour Bag. last quarter 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.