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Luri/Bakhtiyari Bag Face
Design of this soumak chanteh face with piled skirt is quite complex. The pattern has multiple visual fields – the diamonds appear to float above both the horizontal lines and the blue background. Even the guard stripe can not contain the outside vertical diamonds!
| Structural Data: | |
| Size: | 12” x 14.5” (30 x 37 cm.) |
| Warp: | Ivory wool; 13 warps per inch |
| Weft: | Soumak; Structural wefts: red wool; Patterned wefts: wool, 17 per inch |
| Skirt: | half dark brown wool or hair, and half ivory wool; Pile: Wool, symmetrical knots, 6h x 6v = 36kpsi |
