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Shyrdak
The most popular type of felt carpet in Kyrgyzstan is shyrdak. It is made with the help of mosaic technique, which is one of the most complex, and one of the most important qualities of a shyrdak is durability. The average service life of a shyrdak is about 100 years, sometimes even more.
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Shyrdak - traditional felt carpet
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Women in the process of making Ala Kiyiz (felt carpet)
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Inside the yurt
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Making Ala Kiyiz - felt carpet with ornaments heaved onto its upper surface
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Shyrdak (kyrgyz carpet made from felt)
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Craftswomen drawing ornaments on the felt carpet - Shyrdak
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Kyrgyz yurt - Boz ui
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Women in the process of making Shyrdak (felt carpet)
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Process of embroidering floral ornament
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Shyrdak (kyrgyz carpet made from felt).
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Dumba, Pahke Buffalo Horn Oboe
Hkranghku Majoi Manaw Festival was traced back to about AD 300. Dumba was first played in this festival. Dumba is played for Htaungkar dance and also for such events as housewarming ceremony, wedding ceremony and harvesting festival. In addition, it’s performed in funeral rite. Different tunes are played for each occasion. Bamboo grows in the wild in hilly region is used to make this oboe. The bamboo stick is needed to be dried first. And then, holes are perforated on it with the use of drill. It has to change the sizes of drills depending on the sizes of oboes. The oboes are in three different sizes_ big, medium and small. Each of them has a total of four perforated holes. A thumb hole is perforated on the lower side with the distance of an inch from the first finger hole. The four finger holes must be made with same distance. Reed made of dried straw is inserted on one end of oboe and young female buffalo's horn is put on another end. Yellow, blue, red and white ribbons are decorated in triangle and diamond patterns on the horn and oboe. The player must blow the reed made of straw to play this oboe by opening and closing the finger holes. \n-2 feet 4 inches in Length\n-11 inches in the length of horn\n-8 inches in the circumference of horn\n-1 feet 2 inches in the length of oboe\n-1 feet 2 inches in the diameter of horn\n-4 inches in the circumference of oboe \n-3 inches in the length of dried straw reed
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