Antique Baluch Bag Face Tribal Textile 1900s Afghanistan Wool 1950s_ephemera Joshua Cassara

Joshua Cassara

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🔹 Title: Thor #4

This is a novelty pin-back badge — a beautifully made tin lithograph piece produced for the American dime-store and variety-store market

dramatizing the meeting of wilderness and industry on a single canvas

Antique Baluch Bag Face Tribal Textile 1900s Afghanistan Wool 1950s_ephemera Joshua CassaraThe Baluch Bag Face: Portal to the Nomadic Interior The Baluch a tribal confederation inhabiting the borderlands of eastern Iran, southern Afghanistan, and western Pakistan are among the most intensely studied and deeply admired producers of tribal textiles in the collecting world. The Baluch weaving tradition encompasses a range of formats: pile knotted rugs and prayer rugs, flatweave textiles, and the bag pieces khorjin saddlebag pairs and their