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Another Over Badgered Rug or I think it might be a Germech or Engsi.
 

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it's Turkoman looks to be Yomut wedding trapping and usually part of a womans dowry i can't tell from the pic if it's "real' or a poor quality tourist trap version you can get on ebay for a couple hundred bucks.

sometimes these are referred to as torbas which they are not torbas are narrower
 

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i suppose it could be used as a door hanging but door hanging is called Kupunik I think jollar is the term used your textile pic ..here's a pic of kupunik that hangs above the door

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An ensi is a door covering for the outside looks like this is this one is a hatchli design and NO it is not a prayer rug even though it look like one

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germech are very rare and they are no wider and often not as wide as ensi and are bottom door covers to keep dust out of yurts
 

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Does anybody speak English on here anymore??

Wow!! I'm impressed.

Learning a new language on this board is better than RosettaStone.
 

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I don't like dust in my yogurt either but I just eat it right out of the plastici cartoni it comes in.
 

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