Azerbaijan cargo bag or Mafrash - Bedding Bags , the front, back and side panels woven in horizontal bands, the center of repeating blue, red and ivory hooked octagonal, within two geometric motif secondary borders.
Mafrash have been made in the largest numbers by Shahsevan tribal people and other groups in NW Iran and across the border in Azerbaijan. Others were made in Georgia and Armenia. A majority are intricately woven soumak; others are slit-tapestry, sometimes with narrow contrasting soumak bands.
The designs involve some repeat pattern, or diaper, the herāti, in which a diamond lattice pattern peeps through a tangle of blossoms and leaves or through intricate versions of the boteh, a leaf with curling, The rug is prized for his fine, delicate design and his distinctive, weaving technique. display a precise, crisp somewhat geometric drawing that corresponds to the precision of the weave. Colors tend to be varied and rich, but soft as well.
The polychrome field with horizontal bands of mustard, midnight blue, powder blue, green, and ivory rectangular motifs.
In the sixteenth century the predecessors of the Qashqai were in what is now the Azerbaijan/Iranian Azerbaijan area, they were a group of Oguz/Seljuq tribes that left the authority of the horde and They were related to the predecessors of the Shahsavan.