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Yomut
Appliqué Cloth Asmalyk
Central Asia
19th Century
Arasta Halicilik, Istanbul
"Most
Yomut asmalyks are in knotted pile although a proportion
of those produced in the 20th century were produced from
cotton in patchwork technique. Only a few surviving
asmalyks were produced in appliqué technique. The best
known is an early and very beautiful figurative example
in which a hunting scene was sewn onto a felt base. That
asmalyk believed to be from the Mangyshlak peninsular is
held in the Fine Arts Museum in Ashgabad.
Asmalyks produced on a cloth base such as that shown at
the Fair by Mimar Mehmet are just as rare in the West. In
this geometric example, believed to be from the second
half of the 19th century, the cloth foundation is of red
wool - green in the main border - while the sewn
decoration is of blue and olive-green wool with white
silk highlights. The design too is rare, but the repeat
ornament within the lattice has some of the familiar
features of a Turkman gül: kochaks in the pole
positions, and geometric ornaments in diagonal
quarter".
TEMPTING
TURKMENS
THE HALI FAIR: PART II
Robert Pinner
Fair
Report, 18 June 2002
Thanks and best wishes,
J. Barry O'Connell Jr.
