£ 2,600.00
490 x 232 cm // 16ft 2" x 7ft 8"
The Herki populations of Kurdish peoples formally migrated from Northern Iraq to Eastern Turkey whose products were rarely seen in bazaar commerce. The unusually large example having been made on a domestic narrow loom rather than a workshop. They are typically course but nevertheless robust with excellent lustrous wool band thus rather distinctive. Such carpets were hardly known in the West until comparative recent times.
• early 20th C
Ref. 17775
