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Chaudor carpet, floor covering handmade by the Chaudor (Chodor) Turkmen. Usually, they are made either in carpet size or as bag faces (the fronts of bags used for storage in tents or for baggage on camels). They are characterized by their colouring, which ranges from plum through violet-brown shades to chestnut, and by their gul, or major design motif, an oval with flattened and delicately stepped sides. In the carpets this gul occurs in diagonal rows, alternated with rows of a similar figure in a contrasting colour, within a fine diamond network of thin stems that connect tiny rosettes. In ...(100 of 152 words)

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