Complete Kurdish salt bag, with unusually wide, short neck. Latter part of 19th Century. Size is 20 inches high, 14 inches (wide (51 cm x 36 cm). Front mostly in weft-float brocade. Flatweave is tapestry weave with a very bold zig-zag design. Where the top back edge is fraying (see image), some loose yarn appears to be a straw yellow, but at the roots of some of these loose yarns, they have some tinge of pinkish purple color. . This might indicate one of the earliest synthetic dyes, mauvene or fuchsine, both invented in the 1850s, and both fading in sunlight. The bag also has a natural yellow that differs only subtly from this possible faded synthetic. Direct contact at rjemry@gmail.com