Syrmak

A Shyrdak (IPA [ ʃɯrdɑq ]; Kyrgyz: шырдак ) is a traditional double-bevelled carpet of felt, made ​​of quilted, graphic, mostly symmetrical patterns and is made ​​by hand in Central Asia, especially in Kyrgyzstan. From the felt pieces and stool are made or based.

Producing a Shyrdaks

A Shyrdak produced by wet felting, one of the oldest textile techniques, which continues to play an important role in the nomads of Central Asia. The work is strenuous and is done primarily by women who work in groups together on an object. For a rug, the wool of several animals is needed, it is especially the wool of sheep, but also goats and yaks used. The wool is washed, impregnated with soap, laid out on a surface and then rolled up and pressed so long and kneaded until it is sufficiently matted after hours. After drying, the felt is colored as required. Using chalk, a symmetrical ornament is recorded. Two differently colored felt mats are then placed over one another and the recorded pattern is cut through both layers. Thereafter, the cut pieces are mixed with a Doppelzopfstich sewn together. This results in two -ply carpets with the same pattern, a positive and a negative, like a mirror.

The carpets are traditionally two colors, the most common colors are red and green, often the natural tones brown and beige. Only since the 1960s, when tourism began and thus intensified the trade in Kyrgyzstan, also multicolored products are offered. The ornaments are not abstract, but they have old symbolic meanings and are abstracted forms from the animal and plant world of mountain steppe. Colors and color combinations have certain meanings. The carpet of Naryn are considered the finest.

Related Tush are kyiz and Ala kiyiz.

Symbolism of the ornaments used

Www.shyrdak-jurte.de/ornamente/ Here, briefly and clearly, the symbolism used in the traditional Shyrdaks explained.