Tribal Rugs

Guide to Turkmen Namazlyk - Prayer Rugs: "Yomut Prayer Rug
A very rare and at the risk of having two more pop up, a unique Yomut Namazlyk - prayer rug. Dennis Dodds wrote, "As Robert Pinner states in ORIENTAL RUGS FROM ATLANTIC COLLECTIONS, "the scarcity of Turkmen prayer rugs woven before the late 19th century.. . (is because that) prayer rugs were not part of the early Turkmen weaving tradition." ".

I must note that the Yomut are a special case in that with the Uzbek invasion of Turkmenistan 1500 - 1507 AD. most Turkmen tribes came under the rule of the Khanates of Khiva or Bukhara while the Yomut and the Gocklin fell under the rule of first the Timurids and then after a brief period of independence under the Safavid Persians. James J. Reid makes a convincing argument to count the Yomut as a Kizyl Bash tribe in his book Tribalism and Society in Islamic Iran."

Guide to Turkmen Namazlyk - Prayer Rugs: "Guide to Turkmen Namazlyk - Prayer Rugs
In waves Oguz Turkmen split with some moving west and some remaining in Central Asia. The last major split was at the time of the Mongol invasion. Fleeing ahead of the hordes of Cingiss Gan (Ghengis Khan) the last major wave fled only to end up as the Ottoman Turks founders of the world's longest lasting empire the Ottoman Empire. The Oguz Seljuk tribes who stayed in present day Turkmenistan and Khorasan are today's Turkmen and those who moved west are the Northern and Southern Azeri as well as the Turkish. This section deals with the prayer rugs of the Turkmen. It is a short section because except in rare cases they did not weave Prayer rugs. I went into my long winded explanation of who the Turkmen are in respect to their cousins to the west because by and large the western Oguz Seljuk tribes did weave prayer rugs.

In the Turkmen Dictionary that Seyitguly Batyrov and I have been putting together we give the word Namazlyk as Turkmen for prayer rug. There is a debate however concerning Ensis. Are they prayer rugs? Currently almost everyone says no but Dick Wright has an article well worth reading: Richard E. Wright Research Reports: Artifact. I have dealt with Ensis elsewhere so I will leave them out of this discussion."

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Notes on the Aija Blitte Collection Torba: "The Aija Blitte Collection torba
I was a bit surprised to see this on Hali.com:
'Turkmen 'eagle-g?l' group I torba or trapping (detail), late 18th or early 19th century. Approx. 1.20 x 0.60m (4'0'' x 2'0'').Aija Blitte Collection, Washington DC (International Hajji Baba Society)'
This piece is very familiar to me, it has been shown around town extensively. I would not have thought it that old. As a lucky find this was charming but 'late 18th or early 19th' in Hali? What this really points to is the ongoing conundrum in the study of Oriental rugs. Older rugs tend to 'better' so some extrapolate that a better piece is older. The Blitte Collection piece is a nice piece. Must we then date it early on the basis of quality. I suggest not. There is no reason why such a nice piece could not be 100 years latter. Why not 'late 19th or early 20th'? Why not in deed?"

Tribal Rugs: "Persian Rugs - Information on Persian rugs and carpets: 'Information on Persian rugs and carpets on www
JOZAN MAGAZINE: Jozan Magazine includes a large educational rug photo gallery with several hundreds photos of Persian rugs. Visit Educational Persian Gallery.

ORIENTAL RUG NOTES: Barry O'Connell's Oriental Rug Notes includes several rug guides on Persian rugs. Visit Guide to the Persian Carpet.

OLDCARPET.COM: Afshin Nejads web site Oldcarpet has a section Carpets by Zone including description of different Persian rug types."

Turkmen Rugs: "A Group 2 Salor (S-Group) Ensi circa 1800

Salor is the western trade name for the Salyr. The Salyr are one of the original tribes of the Ohguz confederation. S-Group refers to a structurally distinct group of Turkmen weaving which are often attributed to the Salyr. The S - Group argument stems back to the Thompson translation of the Bogolyubov book on Turkmen rugs. Not everyone agrees that there is a one to one correlation between S-Group and Salyr"

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Information on Kashgai rugs elsewhere on world wide web
JBOC's Notes on Oriental Rugs: Guide to Qashqai Rugs
Oldcarpet.com: Qashqai "