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Starting with a Ronnie Newman bag Jim Allen
shows us 3 exceptional Yomud Bags
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Eagle Gul Group 1 Mafrash
Rob van Wieringen Collection

Offset Knotted Yomut Mafrash
2nd half 19th c. Rippon Boswell Lot 20
The Yomut Mafrash
There are two types of Mafrash. The Turkmen weave a
flat envelope bag while the tribes in Azerbaijan weave
"box" bags. The Turkmen mafrash tends to be
very similar to a juval but smaller. The Turkmen mafrash
are generally about 2 to 2.5 foot by 1 to 1.5 foot long.
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Literature:
Hali, 4/1, 1981, pp. 10-19.
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Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
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