Mind altering color! This Moghan or Shahsevan bag face in an extra wrap wrapping technique is over the top in beautiful color and lustrous wool. Pure poetry. Missing its lower border, but so satisfying that this loss is to be forgiven. It measures 37 x 14 inches. a related example, but with a Memling gul variant, is published as plate 96 in Wertime's Sumak Bags of Northwest Persia & Transcaucasia. This is one case where the back side of the piece is even more beautiful than the front because the soft, glowing fiber of the wool yarns can be appreciated to their fullest. This weaving was wrapped with some kind of a twist at each looping so that it is quite uniform and flat on the front side, but the riotous look on the back makes it seem like a completely different animal when viewed from the back. This piece is clearly an very early example and likely dates to the first half of the 19th century. There are about ten colors in the piece and there appears to be natural colored camel hair used in some areas. There is a slight lighting of the colors on the front face, but less than it appears in the images here and less than is normally seen in this kind of piece. See the image detail that shows both front and back sides of this piece for comparison on this point. This is the real thing, rare and hard to come by.