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| Pile | wool. Short to medium clipped | Designs | Boteh and Gul boteh repeated motif. | | Warp/Weft | wool on cotton | Colours | Dark Red. | | Knots | Persian single knot. 250 to 500 knots. | Tribal | Nomadic and Village |
Bukhara (also spelt Bokhara) is a major city in Turkmenistan ( Formerly Turkestan, previously part of Persia and then become part of USSR), which occupied a strategic position on the ancient silk route to the East. The name of Bukhara derived from the Sanskrit word for monastery and a number of Turkoman tribes, mainly Tekke, traditionally used it as a centre for purchasing provisions and selling their rugs.
Originally, the term Bokhara or Bukhara was applied to any rug marketed in the town, but today it only refers to those items which employ traditional tribal gul motifs in their designs. These nomadic and semi nomadic weavers in Afghanistan and North East Persia belong to the Tekkeh, Yamut Saryk, Ersari and other Turkoman tribes. |
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