Turkmen Kizil-ayak Bukhara Rug: 2.65 X 1.85 - Handmade

Turkmen kizil-ayak bukhara rug: 2.65 X 1.85 meters, entirely handmade, in very good condition, wool weft and warp, impeccable pile, no wear. - dimensions: 2.65 X 1.85 meters. (285 with fringes) technical characteristics: wool pile on wool foundation. The field of this raspberry rug is covered with a scattering of curious crocheted "tchemtche" gühls surrounded by a "crown. They are interspersed with more classic multicolored "dyrnak" gühls with centipedes. The main ivory border is a stylized undulating plant garland, flanked by two counter-borders with polychrome flowers. Highlights "with running dogs". "in the 19th century, the tekke tribe was the largest of all the turkmen tribes and occupied most of the area between the caspian sea and the amu darya river. The motifs that decorate the surface of turkmen rugs are geometric patterns called gühls. Each turkmen tribe has its own way of defining and stylizing this pattern in its own way, which characterizes them. The main tribes are the tekke, the yomud, the kizil-ayak, the jafarbay, the goklan, and others. These turkmen carpets, which were knotted in the first part of the 20th century, have a very fine knot and a silky, patinated wool. The cities of bukhara and samarkand, which are now in uzbekistan, were for hundreds of years the important cities on the silk road.".