South Persian Tribal (probably Afshar) bag front; around 1880; 81 x 73 cm ( 2`8” x 2`5” ); dark colours like darkest-blue, petrol, saturated red; there is no oxidized brown or black (!); white warp, double light brown weft, symmetrical knotted with nearly 1 cm (2/5”) long pile, extremely glossy wool (and because of this difficult to take picture from), very floppy handle; interesting closure part, between two small stripes made in “Complementary-weft weave” (or Soumac stitches ?) in differed colours a stripe made in “Weft-Substitution weave” interrupted from slits for the closure system, on the top again a small knotted stripe; some old repairs in lower and right part of the bag