Annotation: "Turkmen women traditionally worked as weavers, creating textiles such as rugs, tent door hangings, bags, and clothing. An old Turkmen saying:«женщина,..." (Annotation)

Annotation: "Turkmen women traditionally worked as weavers, creating textiles such as rugs, tent door hangings, bags, and clothing. An old Turkmen saying:«женщина,..."

Turkmenka (1c98f63a-5f5d-431b-97fe-71116d415686)

From collection pod redakt︠s︡ieĭ V.A. Gurko-Kri︠a︡zhina. Venediktov, N. Turkmenka. Moskva : Izd. "Okhrana materinstva i mladenchestva" NKZ, 1927-1928. RC9.A100.927t. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Turkmen women traditionally worked as weavers, creating textiles such as rugs, tent door hangings, bags, and clothing.

An old Turkmen saying: «женщина, которая не умеет ткать ковра, не должна есть». ("A Woman who does not know how to weave a carpet should not eat.”) (pp. 30 Truzhenitsa Vostoka)

Chuval, or a storage bag. Dyed wool, undated. Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA.

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