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Turkmen gul designs: quartered octagon, hooked lozenge, skirt panel in three styles

Turkmen gul — Octagonal medallions quartered by a fine cross, each quarter carrying a hooked trefoil, set in exact rows with a smaller stepped lozenge between them, the whole floating on a deep madder-red ground., hand-knotted wool pile on a wool foundation, a madder-red ground, clipped low

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Reading 1Quartered gul
Reading 2Hooked lozenge
Reading 3Secondary emblem

The Turkmen carpet is a tribal ledger: each group's gul — a quartered octagon or a hooked lozenge — repeats in exact rows on a madder-red ground, with a smaller emblem between and a skirt panel at each end. These nine carry a quartered octagon, a hooked lozenge and a skirt panel through madder-red ground, exact-row emblem repeat and framed end panels. Ask for a different gul shape and the same three carpet styles carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each design is drawn as a seamless repeat at A3 proportions with an even margin, so it prints clean at A3 or scales to A4 or a fabric swatch.
Can I ask for a different gul shape?
Yes — the direction field takes any octagon or lozenge shape you name, and the same three carpet styles render it in exact rows.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The quartered-octagon style keeps the classic four-part gul on madder red; the hooked-lozenge style swaps in an angular emblem; the skirt-panel style frames the same emblem field with an end border.
Is this respectful of real Turkmen carpet craft?
The set draws on the Turkmen tribal gul-repeat carpet tradition as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific weaver's or tribe's carpet, and not a claim to be hand-knotted wool.

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This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.