Persian malband, probably Shahsavan, 25 ft. x 3-1/2 in., wool, 19th c., tablet-woven (warp twining, two sets of colors, ivory and indigo warps and red-dyed wefts). Original ends. Small areas of damage from use, intact, not pieced together). Shahsavan malbands are exceedingly rare. See Tanavoli's Shahsavan, #274)