Uzbek tent bag face with side panels. Central Asia/Afghanistan. Late 19th century. These are called napramatsch (sp?) and were made as bags that had a face with side panels woven in one piece. The back and bottom of such a bag would have been plain weave rectangle sewn along the bottom section of the main design and then up the outsides of the side panels to form a box-like shape with a flat bottom and open at the top. When complete, these were open topped bags in box-like form. They were used inside the yurt as storage bags for bedding or clothing. The bag face was woven as a narrow strip with the warp ends at the end of each side panel which are narrower than the the main body of the bag face (hooked guls and main border). The bag is single wefted. 48 x 14 inches as is.