Product Description

Antique Turkmen Woman’s Belt 1

Material: Cotton
Style: Turkmen
Size:  Length 72 cm, Width 13 cm
Order Number: MHSATB1

Turkmens are a Central Asian Turkic ethnic group living mainly in Turkmenistan, northern and northeastern Iran and Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and North Caucasus.

Turkmen belt in the same style as a woman’s gown called a chyrpy, lavishly embroidered with small motifs.  A dark-coloured chyrpy was worn by a young woman, yellow by a married or middle-aged woman, and white by a matriarch.

The motifs most frequently used are stylised flowers, and especially the tulip, the region’s most prolific wildflower, evoking springtime and blossoming.

Lined with printed Russian cotton. It has buttons and loops.

19th – early 20th century.

Map of Turkmenistan.

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