Used Yurt

Ersari Kapunuk Turkmenistan wool rug or entrance doorway decoration, Second half of the 19th century, wool pile, wool warp and wool weft, in red and earthtone colors, with long decor...

Copper engraving of a yurt and natives of Kamchatka. This print originates from volume 19 of 'Histoire generale des voyages (..)' by Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exile.

Rugs like this were historically used in nomadic yurt settings, offering warmth, beauty, and prestige.

Traditionally used as small storage bags inside the yurt, torbas such as this represent the functional artistry of the Tekke tribe, the most prolific and technically skilled of the T...

The Ensi served as the decorative door flap of the Tekke yurt, the felt-covered portable home of the nomadic tribe, and was the most ceremonially important textile in the household —...

Hand-knotted with high-quality, hand-spun wool that delivers a dense, velvety, and supple low pile, this historic textile originally served as a large, utilitarian wall-hanging stora...

The specific layout often reflects a "Parda" design, which traditionally served as a doorway hanging for a yurt. What makes it unique is a combination of wool and silk.

Turkmen Yomut Ensi Rug, Nomadic Door Hanging, 19th Century A Yomut ensi is a type of antique Turkmen rug originally woven as a door hanging for a nomadic yurt (tent) by the Yomut tr...

Such bands were originally crafted as essential functional art, used to wrap and secure the exterior lattice of a yurt while simultaneously serving as a primary decorative element of...

Felt, prized for its insulation and portability, featured prominently in their lives until its decline a few decades ago. Essential within yurts, it often served as protective cover...

Textiles of this era were woven specifically as door hangings for the nomadic yurt and are world renowned for their extraordinary graphic archaicness and the use of ancient symbolic ...

After the wedding ceremony, they were often hung inside the couple's new yurt. Estimated age is late 19th century. Asmalyk is in very good condition with some signs of time and use.

This long embroidered piece, composed of multiple strips of red flat weave, may have been used to decorate the interior walls of the yurt or as a graphic and colorful utility cover.

Khan Shatyr is not just a building. It is a yurt transformed into an architectural manifesto, where the millennial traditions of nomads merge with the genius of modern design.

Originally woven to adorn the interior of a tribal yurt or tent, this piece carries both cultural meaning and striking visual power, making it a compelling statement for sophisticate...

Tent-bands were never made for sale but made purely for not only decorating the yurt but each panel was of symbolic importance, designating areas within the yurt where certain items ...

Tent-bands were never made for sale but made purely for not only decorating the yurt but each panel was of symbolic importance, designating areas within the yurt where certain items ...

‘Ok bash’ literally means ‘arrow bag,’ but these pieces were used to cover the ends of tent poles when the yurt was broken down and transported. The Uzbek used a thin, but wind-resis...

This tribal rug, with its four panel pattern divided by tonal variants of the flip-flop vine design, is in the style of door rugs intended for normadic, round wool tents or yurts. Ch...

In the form of a yak (or possibly a dzo) with with a large wrapped package on its back (likely a ger/yurt) There is old glue residue to the reverse, and this most likely was previou...

Ersari Ensi Rug, c. 1900 An ensi is a type of weaving used by the Turkmen of Central Asia as door-flaps on the inside of nomadic tents or yurts. This Ensi was most probably woven by...

The dense, durable wool weaving speaks to its age and original function within a nomadic yurt. This small mat is in Good Antique Condition and retains its powerful tribal charm and r...

The rug’s borders feature stylized forms reminiscent of yurts and protective amulets, a signature of Yuruk visual language.

Due to its sheer size, this kilim may have originally been used for architectural or ceremonial purposes, perhaps as a wall hanging in a yurt, a protective tent panel, or a floor cov...

Tent bands are made to decorate the Turkmen house , YURT, and they go around it inside.   

Probably unique. For your yurt or Oriental corner. Very clever creation and definitely ethnic.

Ensi are considered to be traditional ceremonial door hangings for the entrance to the tribal yurt. The make excellent small square floor rugs.

Antique Ersari Turkmen ensi of traditional design with excellent colour Circa 1880 Ensi were door hangings used to cover the entrance to a yurt This example is woven with a traditi...

Antique Yomut Ensi Rug, Late 19th Century An ensi is a rug woven as a door flap for the inside of a Turkmen yurt. This Yomut group ensi draws a cruciform pattern mimicking the desig...

Felt, prized for its insulation and portability, featured prominently in their lives until its decline a few decades ago. Essential within yurts, it often served as protective cove...

Felt, prized for its insulation and portability, featured prominently in their lives until its decline a few decades ago. Essential within yurts, it often served as protective cove...

Antique Ersari Turkmen ensi of traditional design with excellent colour and good age Circa 1870 or earlier Ensi were door hangings used to cover the entrance to a yurt This early e...

Felt, prized for its insulation and portability, featured prominently in their lives until its decline a few decades ago. Essential within yurts, it often served as protective cove...

Felt, prized for its insulation and portability, featured prominently in their lives until its decline a few decades ago. Essential within yurts, it often served as protective cove...

This long embroidered piece, composed of multiple strips of red flat weave, may have been used to decorate the interior walls of the yurt or as a graphic and colorful utility cover.

An exceptional old Afghan Purdah rug from the village of Chakesh which is North of Aq Chah, on the plain of Afghan Turkestan Circa 1920 Chakesh rugs are considered to be the finest ...

Pair of matching Middle Eastern or Turkish kapanuk hanging wall rugs with long tasseled fringes meant for a tent or yurt door. Provenance: From the Estate of Horst Rechelbacher, O...

The torba is quite fine and well drawn, the face has a very smoked colour showing that it spent many years hanging inside a Turkmen yurt. Note the elem panel at the base with small t...

A good Yomut Turkmen ensi (Yurt door hanging). This example has rich colour and two beautifully drawn elem (base) panels.

The Kirghiz people of Central Asia employ bands such as this to ornate the interior of their tent, the yurt, which they use as their shelter during their winter encampments.

Ensi were door hangings used to cover the entrance to a yurt. This example is woven with a traditional Ersari design; the four panels in the middle are said to be the windows to P...

Ensi are considered to be traditional ceremonial door hangings for the entrance to the tribal yurt. They also can be used as small floor rugs.

Produced more easily than woven textiles and with incredible insulating properties, felt was vital for the construction of yurts and life on the harsh steppe. In the Kyrgyz tradition...

They were prized possessions and often displayed hanging inside the yurt. The weave is very fine and the asmalyk has a soft floppy handle.

Ensi were door hangings used to cover the entrance to a yurt. This example is woven with the traditional Ersari design; the colours are outstanding with a beautiful soft red brown...

The original decorative tassels are also quite rare to find and suggest that this was originally used as an ornament for the wall of the yurt - the tent of the nomads of central Asia.

Examples such as this one were used in the 'yurts' of the nomadic tribes located around Konya, in central Anatolia.

Felts such as this one were used to insulate the yurt and generally lasted for about ten years until they were recycled.

Examples such as this one were used in the 'yurts' of the nomadic tribes located around Konya, in central Anatolia.

It whispers of tents pitched under starlit skies, of looms clicking in quiet corners of goat-hair yurts, and of a world where art is not a possession but a way of life.

The tent shown is a traditional yurt, which is portable and commonly used by nomadic tribes in the region. 2.

Otherwise it is a premium condition and rare rug, designed for use in the yurt as the main carpet, (common terminology). Given its premium quality wool and very fine condition, it i...

A kapunuk is a particular type of trapping made for the doorway of a yurt. Whether this piece was made by nomads or as a luxury item by their sedentary kin to be traded to them is no...

Like the Turkmen, they were once all seasonally migratory, dwelling in round felt tents (yurts), but have been settled, at least partially, in the villages, and have taken up crafts ...

Like the Turkmen, they were once all seasonally migratory, dwelling in round felt tents (yurts), but have been settled, at least partially, in the villages, and have taken up crafts ...

These rugs not only serve as practical items in everyday life, such as floor coverings in tents or yurts, but also represent the artistic expression of the tribe.

These rugs often serve practical purposes in daily life, from providing warmth and comfort to protecting the floors of tents or yurts. The tribe’s artistic expression is seen through...