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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 2524944, member: 8267&quot;]It is not a familiar piece. The stripes with the woven patterns are done in a kilim technique, which might point towards a North African/Turkish/Middle Eastern source. The fibers of the main weaving look like they might be coarse goat or camel hair. But the fringe looks strange (not to mention it being added on all sides). It might be helpful to determine the fibers with a small burn test, at least for the fringe, where it would be easy to cut off a small strand. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hold the fiber with tweezers or a hemostat. Use a butane lighter or alcohol lamp, rather than a match (which has its own smell). Hold the fiber over the flame and observe how it burns. Remove it from the flame and wave it under your nose to note how it smells. Wool will smell like burning hair. If the fibers are jute, sisal, or other plant material it will smell like burning paper. Natural wool and plant materials will form a powdery ash. If the fiber is a synthetic of some sort it may shrink from the flame, ball up, or melt, with a variety of chemical odors. You might practice on some known fibers before sacrificing part of the mystery textile.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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