A Veramin 'Lattice Design' Kilim Salt Bag (Namakdan), Central Persia

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A VERAMIN 'LATTICE DESIGN' KILIM SALT BAG (NAMAKDAN), CENTRAL PERSIA, CIRCA 1900 “The face of this bag is formed of a diamond-shaped dark-blue lattice in 3 horizontal rows framing a red kelim ground.. Dense patterns of small brocaded rosettes form the main decoration on the face as well as the single border. At the top and bottom of the face the borders areas have guards of two-coloured weft twining. There is a panel of pile weaving with large floral motifs at the bottom of the face continuing on the rear. The knotting is asymmetrical, open to the left. The neck of the bag is formed of a single diamond with a series of expanding borders in different colours. Again brocaded rosettes form the main decoration matching the main part of the bag. Unusually, the colours in the neck region are different from the rest of the bag face. Tassels, joined at their ends, are located on the shoulder area of the bag and arise from rows of weft twining. There is no slit or loop closure. Each side of the bag is overcast separately in an alternating two-coloured chevron pattern and then sewn together. The ends are formed of kelim folded over and hemmed. The back of the bag is in brown kelim with some bands of darker brown wool. Decoration again consists of rows of rosettes particularly in the neck region.” (Benjamin, op.cit., LITERATURE: 3rd ed., 2004, pp. 114-115 “This type of bag was described by John Wertime ( Salt bags from Iran, Hali issue 7, page 203, image 10, 1979) and is difficult to attribute it to a specific tribe. A similar one is illustrated by Parviz Tanavoli ( Bread and Salt , image 140, Katar Sara Publishing Company, Tehran, 1991) and was attributed to the Varamin Afshars.” (Benjamin, op.cit., p.114)