Antique Yomut Tent Band Late 1800s Turkmenistan Zili Wool Silk railway_stock_ephemera The card back is marked

The card back is marked simply JAPAN

giving the era the grand finale its scope and ambition earned

11" x 10" ~ little to no wear

making them highly prized by collectors and art enthusiasts alike

The exposure hardened the gelatin in proportion to the light values — most deeply in the shadow areas

Antique Yomut Tent Band Late 1800s Turkmenistan Zili Wool Silk railway_stock_ephemera The card back is markedThe Yomut Tent Band: Nomadic Textile Mastery from the Caspian Shore The Yomut Turkmen one of the five great Turkmen tribal confederations of Central Asia inhabited the western coast of the Caspian Sea and the Kara Kum desert of what is today western Turkmenistan and northeastern Iran. Masters of the fiber arts, the Yomut produced textiles of extraordinary sophistication across a range of formats: the pile rugs and prayer rugs for which the Turkmen are