Lot Essay
For related weavings please see Wie Blumen in der Wüste: Die Kultur der turkmenischen Nomadenstämme Zentralasiens, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, 1993, no. 126; Siawosch U. Azadi, Turkoman Carpets and the Ethnographic Significance of their Ornaments, Fishguard, 1975, no. 36; Vanishing Jewels: Central Asian Tribal Weavings from the collection of Marvin and Frederica Amstey, exhibition catalogue, Rochester NY, 1990, no. 41.