An Afshar 'Lozenge' Bag Face, South Persia

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AN AFSHAR 'LOZENGE' BAG FACE, SOUTH PERSIA, CIRCA 1875 “This large rectangular bag face has a madder red field with a diamond-shaped ivory lozenge occupying the central region. The whole face is covered with a Pu Lo design. There are six shrub forms, two inside the medallion, four more in the corners of the outer red field. The ivory ground inner border is filled with a linked small boteh pattern in various colours. The indigo ground outer border has alternating red and green six-armed stars in a meander-style pattern. On left and right sides there is a narrow vertical band in the same indigo as the outer border. The sides are overcast in red wool. The bag face has symmetrical knotting with undyed ivory warps and red-dyed wefts with two shoots.” (Benjamin, op.cit., LITERATURE: 3rd ed., 2004, p. 73 “This is probably a single bag face rather than part of a large bedding bag (mafrash) but it has no closure area and the back is missing. The contrasting madder and ivory ground with the all-over Pu Lo design, originating in central Asia, is simple but pleasing. The Pu Lo may indicate the origin of the weaver and may be from an early design group.” (Benjamin, op.cit., p. 73)