Turkoman Jallar 50905€765
ORIGIN
Afghanistan
PERIOD
Early 20th Century
CONDITION
Good
CONDITION REPORT
Finely woven. Beautifully embroidered
CONSTRUCTION
Wool warp and weft
Weft wrapping
DIMENSIONS
Length 136cms
Width 36cms
CATEGORY
Tent Bag
NOTES
The jallar is a long narrow bag affixed to the yurt wall, and belongs to the category of bags loosely referred to as ‘tent bags’. It is either knotted and piled or flat-woven and nearly always has woollen fringes hanging from the lower edge. Designs of the knotted and piled jallars vary; the flat-woven jallars usually display the bastani gul.What is confusing is that among many Ersari Turkomans, the knotted and piled tent bag is referred to as jallar and the flat-woven bag as a torbah.Torbah bastani is yet another common appellation and has come into being because most of these pieces have the bastani design, which means ‘enclosed’. This design does remind one of wire netting.Oriental Rugs: Vol 3 “The Carpets of Afghanistan” R.D. Parsons Antique Collector’s Club, 1990
