Bag Face, Turkoman, Salor; 19th century WARP: grey wool; Z2S; 28 threads per inch (107 per dm); depressed WEFT: brown wool; Z spun, unplied, 2 parallel threads per shoot; 2 shoots after each row of knots; 17 knots per inch (65 per dm). PILE: wool and silk; 10 colours: red, light red, orange, dark green, dark blue, blue, dark purple/red, light purple silk, dark brown, white; asymmetrical knot open to the left and tied around 2 warp threads; 238 knots per sq. inch (3510 per sq. dm). SIDE FINISH: one cord oversewn with (goat's?) hair dyed blue. END FINISH: Lower: plain weave turned and stitched and then covered with a band of red woollen braid. Upper: cut DESIGN: field: red ground with central band of three large hooked and stepped guls. Within each on a red ground there is a multi-coloured star within a horned cruciform. Similar upper and lower bands are partially evident. In two bands off-set to the guls are groups of nine small rectangles stepped diagonally in threes. They are outlined in dark blue and contain stars. Main border: dark purple ground with a two-coloured flowerhead set in a small, horned cartouche. Each cartouche is separated by small, white, horned motif and four florettes between each pair. Inner and outer borders: red ground with touching S-motifs in dark blue. Lower band: immediately above plain weave, a band of reciprocal arrowheads in dark blue and red (the red ones containing two white dots). Upper band: 15 "trees of life": four are dark green, the rest are blue. Date catalogued: 4.10.94