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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
Seen on: www.Cloudband.com
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
