Yayla Tribal Rugs

Yayla means high summer mountain pasture. It is from Turkish but it is known to nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples throughout much of the Middle East and Central Asia. It is where herding people take their animals in the summer months to range freely and live off the green grass that appears when the snow melts.

Yayla is a place where people, adults and children, come and go, work, play, mix freely, eat together with whoever shows up and is hungry. Generations of kids have grown up here, and still are. Yayla has been this for the past 30 years.

We are a rug producer. We produce 95% of what we sell ourselves, in Afghanistan, India and Nepal. We are Tibetan, Turkmen, Kurdish, Nepali, Indian, Central American and American. We are Yayla.

Our goal has always been to create unique and beautiful rugs using all the traditional materials that have been known to and used by rug makers for countless generations, that is hand carded and hand spun wool and vegetable dyes.