Tapestry

Description

The tapestry. A factory-made product made entirely from sheep’s wool. The shape is rectangular. Length-10 cm, width-6 cm. The bottom and sides are decorated with a 95 cm long fringe. The Russian church is depicted on the upper right corner of the obverse of the tapestry. In the lower left corner there is a mosque with a dome. A little lower, in the middle, a Kazakh village with horsemen on horseback is shown. A caravan is on its way through the center of the village. Below this scene, the Kokchetav region is additionally sewn on. In the middle of the tapestry, starting from the left side and ending at the right edge, the direction of the cities is indicated with patterned material: Yarkent, Kashkar, Kulja, Altynemel, Kapal, Verny, Ayagoz, and Semey. The tapestry was made in 1985 specifically for the opening of the Shokan Ualikhanov State Memorial Museum “Altynemel.” The author of the tapestry is the renowned Kazakh artist Shamil Kozhakanov. The tapestry was made in Almaty at the V. Tereshkova factory. All the work was completed in 1985, and the tapestry was installed in the museum’s exhibition.