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CARPETS
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TUKTI KLEM - napped carpet. Wool, weaving. Kzyl-Orda region. | TUS-KIIZ - wall carpet. Welvet, silk gold embroidery. | SYRMAK - spread carpet. Felt, inlay. Northern Kazakhstan. |
The carpet manufacturing in Kazakhstan has old tradions. Integral part of the kazakh
portable dwelling - jurt are carpets and felts. In kazakh auls felt carpets, decorated
with ornamental motives, were widely used.The most widespread, centuries - old traditional
technique was applique - sewing on a felt an ornament of thin felt, cloth or cotton,
fabric. Folk craftsmen were makers of embrodier: carpets, especially wall hanging, were
decorated with fur, semi-precious stones, metal plates, etc.