Old Bag: Culture Bag at Six Centuries Ago

ancient bags Old Bag: Culture Bag at Six Centuries Ago

Old bag can look cool nowadays. The ancient bags are so popular at their period. These examples of culture bag bags come from Middle Asian that is created by Turkmen, Baluch, Uzbek and Kyrgyz clan. The bags that had been made at 15th -16th century are collections of Washington collector and The Textile Museum.

They have various bags, for example are chuval (large size wall bag), torba (narrow and long bag), bohche (envelope-like bag), mafrash (small bag to bring personal goods), khorjin (saddlebag) and namakdan (bag for bring the salt). The photos show the example of chinakap from Uzbekistan (1st picture), chuval from Uzbekistan (2nd picture), chuval from Turkmenistan (3rd picture) and torba (4th picture).

All the old bags had been made through traditional weaving process. Although these culture bags has the similar making process, each bag has its own structure, color and design. The nomaden lifestyle of the clan leads them to make all their goods are easy to bring. Their bags represent the combination of artistic and benefit value.

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