For providing important insight into how these mountain nomads live, focusing, consideration upon their reliance on crafts to supply both function and beauty, this film, as well as “weaving Cloth” will prove essential. Throughout Central Asia, women of the Pushtu tribe make felt mats for their families’ comfort and for decorating the hard floor of their black camel hair tents. Putt men shear the tribal sheep. Their moslem wives, with unveiled and weathered faces, pound and separate the wool fibers, deftly flicking their hands over the flattened, outstretched wool and pressing in the vivid colors.
Films » Making Felt Rugs
Making Felt Rugs
Alternative Title: N/A
Series Title: Mountain Peoples of Central Asia
Summary:
Description:
Edited Film
Country/Location: Badakhstan (Northeastern Afghanistan)
Tribe or Group: Pushtu
Cinematographer: Hermann Schlenker
Production Company: IFF
Running Time: 9 min.
Decade Produced: 1960s
Years Distributed: -1969
Film Gauge: 16mm
Stock: Color Safety
Footage Count: 338'
Sound: Un-narrated, Native Music
Notes: Shot and edited before African Village Life films. IFF took Schlenker's footage and cut into 14 separate films. Schlenker owns OCN. There are 14 titles in the Mountain Peoples of Central Asia series: 10 were released first in 1969, 4 were released in 1972.
