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Turkmen Carpet Museum, Ashgabat

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Browse through the largest selection of handmade carpets in the country at Turkmen Carpet Museum, a large modern building featuring carpet design. With 8,000 well-labeled specimens of ancient carpets with diverse patterns, the museum boasts some of the finest and greatest collections of carpets in the world. See the largest handmade carpet in the world, 14 m (46 ft) by 21.2 m (69.5 ft) piece covering 301 sq m (3,240 sq ft); it was certified by The Guinness Book of Records in 2003. Professional restoration of old carpets, some of which feature up to 1.35 billion knots per square meter, takes place here. It couldn't be easier to arrange your visit to Turkmen Carpet Museum and many more Ashgabat attractions: make an itinerary online using Inspirock's Ashgabat vacation planning website .

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• By Oski V

  Es ist schön, etwas über die Herstellung der turkmenischen Teppiche zu erfahren. Auch hängt dort einer der weltweit wohl grössten Teppiche.  more »

  It is nice to learn about the production of Turkmen carpets. Also hangs there one of the world's largest carpets.
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• By Worldtosee46

  Some incredible carpets made by women in the different providences of Turkmenistan each with their own pattern and story.  more »

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• By Romain Peigney

  If you should see a single museum in Ashgabat I guess it's should be this one. Carpet weaving is proclaimed to be integral to Turkmen culture (the five traditional carpet patterns even found their way to the national flag) and at this museum you get to learn a lot about this. From dying techniques, the different materials and tools used, the meaning of each pattern, everything is very well explained by the guides (most of them speak Russian and a few of them speak some good English). You also get to see some impressive pieces, including the largest hand-woven carpet in the world and a number of carpets using special techniques to create beautiful relief patterns. Totally worth the price (which is high by local standards)!

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• By Michel Disdero

  Too much Soviet-style, and carpets definitely lack color diversity, beyond red shades

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