First trips outside Ashgabat. Soviet nostalgia. Turkmen-dili.
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| Madeline at National Carpet Museum, Ashgabat |
Been here 2 months. The recurring metaphor is carpet weaving. I’m at the stage now where no one would buy the thing: just a mass of warp and a pattern barely emerging.
I’m in the land whose most famous product, not counting natural gas, oil reserves, cotton and wheat exports, is carpets. I’ve moved from a country that had Basotho hats on its flag (symbolizing mountains) to one with carpet patterns on its flag
