This article, aim introduces the hand knotted carpets that reflect the culture and life styles of Şavak, a nomadic tribe living in Tunceli and Elazig regions. With the migration of the tribe from Central Asia to Anatolia, the traditions and material and moral values they brought along kept living in Anatolia as well. Hence, this reveals itself in the art of weaving. Anatolia has a highly important potential thanks to both its cultural diversity and allowing immigrants during its long history. Therefore, the art objects coming out of the cultural and folkloric values of the Turkmens of Şavak, who migrated from the Central Asia and contributed to the development of the cultural diversity in Anatolia, are all important ethnologically. In this article, the carpets of Şavak tribe and the carpets in the other regions of Anatolia will be compared compositionally.
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