Prayer stone bag from among the Shi'ites in Afghanistan.
© Foto: Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Acc. no. I B 11553.
The Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin holds an embroidered prayer stone bag from Afghanistan, probably from among the Hazaras. Such a small bag is used to protect the prayer stone of the Shi'ite muslims. Such a bag is localled known as a kiseh-ye mohre namaz. It measures 10 x 7.2 cm.
The embroidery is worked with long and short stitch (or brick stitch). The edges of the bag are furthermore decorated with small glass pearls.
See also the TRC digital exhibition Dressing The Stans: Textiles, Dress and Jewellery from Central Asia (TRC, Leiden, 2017).
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin online catalogue (retrieved 3 December 2016).
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