The Allen Late 18th Century Eagle Gull Torba

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Eagle Group II Torba circa 1780

This is a wonderful example of an Eagle Group II torba. In the late 1970 a small group of related textiles were identified. Dr. Jon Thompson was the first to identify them as cohesive groupings in Mackie, Louise & Thompson, Jon. Turkmen. Washington DC: Textile Museum, 1980. He called them Imreli and Fine Brown Yomut. Piggybacking on Thompson's work Annette & Volker Rautenstengel proposed The Eagle Gul Groupings. This torba falls into the Eagle Gul Group II.

Group II: 2-ply pile yarn. Asymmetrical knot open to the right. Wool weft with at least one cotton (not silk) weft shoot. Medium red-brown field color.
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This Eagle Group II torba was dated to circa 1780 by the Nobuku Kajitani legendary Textile Conservator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Based on dye analysis, her own research and the c14 tests performed by Dr. A. J. Timothy Jull of the University of Arizona she determined a probable age of c1780.

This piece hold a strong resemblance to Plate 61 (Mackie, and Thompson) the Paul Fong Bridal Camel Trapping originally placed in the Fine Brown Yomut group by Dr. Jon Thompson

E.B. Long wrote, "Plate 61 (Mackie, and Thompson)illustrates a Group II torba in the less often seen six juval gul layout composed of three uncut guls and six half guls." Golklan-Tukmenen und ihreTeppiche

As we can see here in the alternating bright red and white designs what James C. Allen has suggested are Bird Forms.