Yomut juval - Turkmen, the main gul with a rare centre ornament (similar to rare tekke torba; see Loges, illus 7 & below), erre secondary guls and dogashyk main border, tree of life shirt, 75 x 118cm, early 20th.century, sold
This juval retains its original flatweave bag backing.
Moshkova: to show subservience to their victors; defeated subtribes had to give up their heraldic emblems (the gul - the main medallions within the field) on their main carpets (see: yomut main carpet), but so that their own ancestrial heraldic emblems were saved from oblivion, those defeated sub-tribes incorporated them onto smaller pieces, eg -juvals etc. as above.
Taking this theory futher, as a method of showing their ancestrial past, this yomut juval displays a lost tekke gul (the quartered diamond with in a chequer border) within the centre of its own main gul.