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Tekke Khalyk from Franz Bausback

Tekke Turkmen Khalyk
Central Asia
19th Century
Franz Bausback, Mannheim

"Khalyks were woven for the ritual Turkmen wedding procession, where their tassels appear to have provided a curtain to hide the bride in her kejebe on the bridal camel. Of the relatively few surviving khalyks, those of the Tekke are the most common, and of these the 'cup' design of this example is second in number to the more common 'kochak-cross' design.

This unusually long Tekke khalyk (previously published in Turkoman Studies I, London 1980, Fig. 403) is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful examples known. As in most such khalyks the steep diagonals needed to draw the 'cups' are produced by offset knotting, otherwise seldom used in asymmetrically knotted pileweaves. In another sense 'offsetting' applies to the design where the 'cups' are drawn four colours in horizontal rows offset by one space in each row to produce the diagonal colour effect."

TEMPTING TURKMENS
THE HALI FAIR: PART II
Robert Pinner
Fair Report, 18 June 2002

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