A diamond-shaped gül edged with latch hooks, characteristic of Yomut weaving.
Dyrnak means claw or fingernail, and the name points to the small hooks that line the edge of this diamond-shaped gül. The hooks are not only decoration: across Turkic weaving, latch hooks were long read as a protective device, a ward against the evil eye.
It is one of the signature medallions of the Yomut, who, unlike the strict single-gül Tekke, built their fields from several alternating güls. Repeated and interlocked, the dyrnak gives a Yomut rug its busy, angular rhythm.
