Our national riches – model of Turkmen beauty

Now the Turkmen people are known all over the world as the people rendering honour to the national features, history, customs, traditions. Our beloved people have attractive, national features unlike anybody and ethnography. It is possible to judge it, looking at our national costumes. National clothes of the people was improved within centuries. Thus, there have been created the various kinds of clothes including national features of the people. Among them there are men's, woman’s, children's clothes, also there are orders, when and where they can be put on. Among national clothes one of adornments of celebrations, oriental robe is considered to be the sign of honour and respect, a favourite garment of our ancestors beginning from the Middle Ages. There is a saying of our people about an oriental robe: «Oriental robe is most part of beauty». As an oriental robe was completion of outer garments, the great value was given to it. Turkmens sew a certain kind of oriental robe for each age group. Museums of the country are of great importance in thorough studying of kinds of the national clothes remained to us from ancestors. At the State museum of the State cultural centre of Turkmenistan on the 15th of August 2025 is organized the exhibition of national oriental robes named «Our national riches - the sample of Turkmen beauty» with a view to show the people the unusual, ancient oriental robes kept in store houses. At the exhibition are presented men's, woman's and children's oriental robes of the end of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries inherent in various regions of the country. At the exhibition are shown woman's oriental robes decorated with a manual embroidery, cloth oriental robes completed with patterns, oriental robes with an embroidery and silver adornments, silver buttons and necklace, velvet and warm oriental robes completed with pieces of a cloth and tassels, yellow oriental robes with red and green strips, Khiva oriental robes with padding from cotton, silk oriental robes, striped and red oriental robes for men, semisilk and Khiva oriental robes, oriental robes made of camel's hair and sheepskin. The exhibition was opened by the deputy head of department of ethnography of the State museum of the State cultural centre of Turkmenistan Jahan Nazarova. Then the floor was given to the lecturer of the art history department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan Jeren Baltaeva, senior research fellow of the division of the ancient history and history of the Middle Ages of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan Sahra Yusubova, the Honoured cultural worker of Turkmenistan, poetess Oguljemal Charyeva, candidate of historical science, ethnographer Ajap Bairyeva.