Tent Band regular-price warmth and elegance to a

warmth and elegance to a home

the band is formed with sumak technique and the pouch is flat weave with some supplementary weft decoration

Note the impractically long decorative sleeves held together at the back

Ikat is an ancient technique in which the pattern is created before the weaving is made

40 x 40 cm

Tent Band regular-price warmth and elegance to aTent band, Qashqai, Persia The wider bands hold the outer coverings of a yurt in place, long narrow ones may act as braces for the wooden frame. Others may be used internally, partly as decoration and to hang things from. Theyre often associated with the wooden frame tents or yurts of central Asian, Turcoman nomadic tradition. Other bands are used to anchor loads to camels and horses. The ingenuity of the weaver in producing such complex and changing