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Turkmen Rugs
Turkmen rugs (sometimes called Bukharian) - one of the most popular in the world "families" of handmade rugs. In modern republic of Turkmenistan rug is one of the approved national symbols : rug ornament is present at the flag country and its officially declared public domain. In the country officially observed National Day of Rugs. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to link the Turkmen rugs with the territory of modern Turkmenistan.
The Turkmens, the framers of the rugs, in addition to Turkmenistan, living in Turkey, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and other Central Asian countries. There is a very large Turkmen population in Afghanistan and Iran.Turkmen rug weavers (a Turkmen rugs manufactured almost exclusively by women) were known in Europe long ago. Back in the 14th century, Marco Polo wrote about Turkmens : "They make the most elegant and beautiful rugs in the world".
Turkmens merged by language (although boasting many dialects) and the common origin of ancient turks oguz tribe, but separated by more than 20 tribes, such as tekintsy (Teke), iomuty (iomudy) ersari, gokleny, salyry, saryki, and chaudory etc. All these tribes have their own historical figures rug. But there are similarities, which combines Turkmen carpets, and dominated most of them. This gel (gel), "flower", a recurring 8th sided madalon, which covered the entire surface of the carpet. Each tribe has its gel, which are classified and their carpets named for the tribe, which he produced, for example. tekinsky, iomutsky (iomudsky), etc. rugs.
However, if the old Turkmen rugs can be similarly classified accurately, in recent years, the differences were no longer so clear. Gel of one tribe can be seen on the carpets of other tribes. Also in the last few decades typical Turkmen rugs handmade in a variety of large quantities in Pakistan.
The dominant color of the background of Turkmen carpets, dark red, the dominant colour red-brown and black and red. Occasionally meets blue background, and even less the others. Basis is typically cotton, lint-wool used as natural or synthetic dyes.
Density of Turkmen rugs varies. The most frequent carpets low-density 100-200 thousand knots per square metre, but are also Turkmen rugs with rug density of 600,000 knots per square metre or more. Most tekinsky, iomudsky and Turkmen rugs that find their way to market are relatively small in size from 60 to 90 centimeters to 1.5 to 2 meters, but large rugs also not rare.
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