Middle East, Textile, Carpet; Front panel for chuval (nomadic storage bag), wool knotted pile with silk details on wool foundation, geometric design of three octagons (or guls), on red ground, Turkoman Salor, possibly Turkmenistan, Central Asia, 1800-1850Turcoman, Salor bag face
DESIGN: field: red ground with central band of three large hooked and stepped guls. Within each there is a red ground containing a multi-coloured star within a hooked 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 white stars.
Main border: dark purple ground with a two-coloured flowerhead set in a small, white horned motif and four florets between each pair.
Inner and outer border: red ground with touching S-motifs: dark blue (inner) blue (outer).
Lower band: immediately above plain weave is a band of reciprocal arrowheads in dark blue/red. The red ones contain a white dot; the dark blue ones contain a red dot.
Upper band: 24 "tree of life" motifs: every 4th one is blue; the others are dark green or dark blue. They bear either red or white blossoms.