Middle Eastern or Moroccan Vintage Kilim Pillow Cover / Camel Saddle Bag mid-century American circa 1940

circa 1940

brownish black

studying briefly under Henry Moore

applied on the surface of a woven bamboo or wood object

a milking stool came in pretty handy for fitting between narrow aisles in our greenhouses and sitting upon for labor intensive picking

Middle Eastern or Moroccan Vintage Kilim Pillow Cover / Camel Saddle Bag mid-century American circa 1940This piece I believe is a vintage camel saddle bag, but it would serve now as a fantastic pillow cover. It is constructed of two beautifully woven (and heavy!) pieces. The "front" features a complex, predominately black and white pattern, punctuated by colorful yellow, green, blue and pinkish diamonds, woven I believe with a wool weft on a cotton warp. The reverse features a vertically striped black, red and blue pattern, woven with wool on wool I