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Manufactured in the middle of the 19th century: Ýomut carpet (door hanging); here: execution of a hatschlu

The Hatschlu is a particularly finely knotted prayer rug of the Turkmen tribes .

The textile is often used as a curtain for tribal tents. Hatschlu means cross . The design of the cross provides that the field of the carpet, which is mostly square, is divided into four individual, richly patterned segments and therefore cross-shaped. The vertical stripes are regularly decorated with two small niche shapes. Above the field segments, one or a whole series of small niches are also draped. The structure of the carpets is firm, smooth and pliable, with an average length of 1.90 m and a width of 1.40 m.

The hatschlu always agree in the main form of their drawings. The decorations vary. The violet to brownish-red funds of the fields can contain rows of dark blue calyxes stylized in outline, which are also reminiscent of the antlers of deer. In addition, the motif of diamonds or diamond-shaped stylized flowers can appear.

The border has serrated leaves and small diamonds as flowers. This up to three colors and densely patterned.

variants

In addition to Afghan-, Kisil-Ajak-Hatschli, there are Tekke ( Bukhara ) and Yomud -Hatschli. The Turkmens call these carpets Enessi .

literature

• SA Milhofer: Oriental carpets . Fackelträger-Verlag, 1966. (1974, ISBN 3-7716-1718-9 )