A Turkmen tribe famous for finely woven, strictly regular rugs. The Tekke gül is the design most people picture as a generic Bukhara rug.
The Tekke are the Turkmen tribe behind the finely woven, strictly regular rugs that most people picture as a generic Bukhara rug. Their work is dense and disciplined, and their quartered gül was guarded almost like a trademark.
Set beside the Ersari, the contrast is clear: where the Ersari are large and open, the Tekke are fine and exact, and where the Ersari mix several güls, the Tekke hold to one. The Yomut, in turn, are colorful and built on several alternating güls.
