The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Turkmen Bag Face
1800s
Overall: 88.9 x 127 cm (35 x 50 in.)
Gift of Arlene C. Cooper 2008.223
Location: not on view
Description
The front of this bag, called a bag face, displays the distinctive hallmarks of the Saryk tribe. The main guls, or lobed motifs, are subdivided in quadrants and alternate with angular minor guls in staggered rows. It is the oldest known weaving of the Saryk tribe, with a soft red ground color and white cotton and magenta silk pile highlights. Essential storage containers, bags were suspended from wall trellises inside tents and transported by pack animals during seasonal migrations. Bags were woven in one piece with pile on the upper part for the front face and plain weave on the lower part for the back face, and then folded and sewn along both sides.- Thompson, Jon, and Thomas J. Farnham. Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs & Textiles from New York Collectors. 2008. p. 135, pl.30
- Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 18, 2014-December 14, 2015).Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors. New-York Historical Society Museum and Library, New York, NY (April 11-August 11, 2008). The Textile Museum, Washington D.C. (Fall 2008).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2008.223