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This one is out of my pay grade. It appears to have corroded brown, it has been highly used and no sign of moth damage believe it or not. It’s also probably one half of its former glory. Is this a Baluch or a Khamseh piece?
Even in its state of disrepair, I find it an interesting piece.
Aimaq Tribal Bag Face with Kilim Bridge Fragment (probably Timuri)
Western Afghanistan / Khorasan region, late 19th–early 20th century
Approx. 16 × 18 in.
Wool pile on wool foundation with flatwoven kilim elements
Compact tribal bag face woven by an Aimaq group of western Afghanistan, most likely Timuri. The composition is organized in a diagonal lattice of dark indigo compartments enclosing cruciform pointed stars and a variety of small zoomorphic fillers, including stylized camel- or pack-animal motifs rendered in lively geometric shorthand. The restrained palette—deep indigo, madder red, camel wool, muted greens, and small turquoise accents—creates the characteristic nocturnal harmony associated with weavings from the Herat–Khorasan region.
The field is framed by a layered border system consisting of a serrated “mountain” guard band, a narrow polychrome barber-pole line, and a principal border of stylized ram-horn motifs. Slight irregularities in spacing and the compression of repeats along one side reveal improvisation at the loom, a hallmark of tribal weaving executed without a pattern cartoon.
Particularly notable is the survival of a flatwoven kilim bridge fragment above the pile face. The decorated panel is joined to this extension by a folded zigzag hinge band, indicating that the textile originally formed part of a larger functional bag or saddlebag structure. The surviving kilim section displays alternating dark and brown bands and reinforcement areas that once connected the pile face to the bag’s back or bridge. The lower edge retains its original warp fringe, stabilized by a later cotton binding thread.
Although such weavings are traditionally grouped with “Baluch” rugs in the rug trade because of stylistic similarities, the Timuri belong ethnographically to the Aimaq tribal populations of western Afghanistan rather than to the Baluch ethnic group.
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