Description Eagle Gül Group II Trapping
162 x 66 cm (5’ 4” x 2’ 2”)
Turkmenistan, ca. 1800 or before
Condition: good according to age, scattered low pile, both ends partially incomplete, several small old repairs, one restored tear in the right field
Warp: wool, weft: wool and cotton, pile: wool
All these rare weavings of an apparently separated Yomut tribe are closely related to each other, they are now known under the provisional name Eagle Gul Group and are the subject of a comprehensive book by Anette Rautenstengel and Siawosch Azadi, “Kultur der Turkmenen”, Hilden 1990.
There this animal trapping is illustrated and described under no. 26 and attributed to Eagle-g?l group II.
The archaic-looking piece has the structure that Jon Thompson (in “Turkmen Carpet Weavings”, London 1981, and “Magic Carpet”, London 1981) as Fine Brown Yomut: asymmetrical knot open to the right, deep brown-red ground colour and as weft threads a mixture of wool and cotton (1960 Jon Thompson had given this group the provisional name Imreli).
This extremely rare, very large animal hanging for the bridal camel was exhibited at the V International Carpet Conference Vienna/Budapest in 1986, was illustrated in the catalogue under no. 116 and described by Robert Pinner.