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| | Nomad Rugs - Glossary - San Francisco and Marin County |
 | | In origin, a tribal name, now a town, river and district in the extreme west of Azerbaijan, the Caucuses. |
 | | In the nineteenth century they were divided into several tribes including the Salor, Tekke, Saryk, Ersari, Yomut, Chodor and Kizil Ayak. |
 | | They are outstanding weavers and some ethnologists have postulated that the technique of pile weaving may originate from the Turkmen. |
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