Case Item Number: 3448/51 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Case composed of a long rectangular woven textile, that has been folded in half and sewn together. The bottom edge is closed with a loop stitch in white. On one side there are eight vertical bands in red, dark olive green, mustard yellow, light blue and light green, each with four V-shaped designs embroidered in different colours. On the opposite side, there is a red rectangle at centre with two large side-by-side embroidered diamond-shaped designs with smaller shapes in the space around them. The space around the rectangle is dark beige, and has the same design embroidered throughout in a single row or column. The interior of the case is brightly coloured, which shows how much the exterior has faded.
Purchased from an Armenian dealer in the grand bazaar in Istanbul in 1976. Said to be from Kurdistan.