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Spindle Bag

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Wool (warp sumak weft pile and tassels) cotton (ground weft and tassels) goat(?) hair (side finishes and tassels) metal rings braided strap and faience beads (tassels); weft-faced plain weave with pattern in sumak extra-weft wrapping (front and back); symmetrically knotted pile (bottom edge)
Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Inger G. and William B. Ginsberg 2015
Title: Spindle Bag
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Wool (warp sumak weft pile and tassels) cotton (ground weft and tassels) goat(?) hair (side finishes and tassels) metal rings braided strap and faience beads (tassels); weft-faced plain weave with pattern in sumak extra-weft wrapping (front and back); symmetrically knotted pile (bottom edge).

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