Hand stitched primitive nomad made clothing and rugs known as posteen, pelisses, postak, and Choga, were produced by simple methods since the first primitive needles were used in the stone age. This idea was first put forward and published inHali Magazine Issue 100, in an article by John Wertime.
The following notes are first hand accounts, where the use of these animal hide pieces were observed. From the period 1840 to 2011. Giving us some insights into methods that pre-date weaving and are probably still in use in remote regions like the Afghan Pamirs. The importance of this is the close relationship between long pile woven rugs and the hand stitched items that they mimic.
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Imitation animal hair blankets woven today by Kurdish men in the south eastern Turkish town of Siirt in Siirt province were probably produced in surrounding regions encompassing northern Iraq and western Iran as far south as Kuzestan for more than two thousand years. In the last few decades Turkish marketers sold these siirt battaniyesi into markets in Europe and the United States, indelibly linking the town of Siirt with the faux-fur blanket itself. Siirt has become the most recent place of production, by way of association these minimalist fur-like flat weaves with origins in antiquity have recently become known as siirt.
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Siirt and Likhnyk blankets are woven inside the territories of early steppe nomads. Woven blankets that are then teased into a matted felt like finish resembling animal hides. The lizhnyk pummeled first by the power of water inside a Valylo before being treated with a teasle to raise the nap. A throwback to primitive techniques, these two blankets are still made today in the Ukraine and Turkey.
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A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, the terminology associated with Central Asian Pieced-Skin Rugs or mats made of animal pelts, skins or hides.
In Bokhara Uzbekistan a "furred robe" was called a Choga, as noted in the 1903 glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases. At the same time in Afghanistan the word Posteen would have been used to describe a "furred robe". While in Tibet the word Chuba described a similar if not more cumbersome garment.
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