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late husband, Ghazi Abdul Hadi, bought the carpets from the Orosdi Bac
department store (this is Iraq’s oldest and most famous department
store – it opened in the 1940’s). There were many different
designs of carpet, but he chose two. One is a portrait of a Kurdish woman
in traditional costume (52) and the other is of the spiral minaret in
Samarra (2) ( c. 850 AD, once capital of the Abbasid Empire). We brought
the carpets with us when we left Iraq. I can’t remember how much
they cost, but they weren’t cheap. NAHIDHA MOHAMMED, born 1932, left Iraq 1990 |
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