The Charter · The Record A documented archive

The archive, as it is built.

Genuine photography of the boz üy, the workshop in Kyzyl-Tuu, and the hands that raise it. The plates below mark what we are documenting now. We do not borrow a stock image to fill a space.

Every image here is real, or it is a marked place for a real one. No stock, ever. Authenticity is the whole point.

Plate · Inside the boz üy, Kyrgyzstan · genuine Tündük photograph

Exteriors

The boz üy in its setting.

To document

Exterior, alpine meadow, late afternoon light

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A cluster at a resort, raised and finished

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Winter, snow on the dome, wood smoke at twilight

Interiors

No poles. Pure space.

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Looking up through the open tündük to the sky

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Shyrdak carpets and warm lantern light at dusk

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The full span of a 7m interior, configured for guests

The Craft & Process

Made by hand, in Kyzyl-Tuu.

To document

Steam-bending the tündük crown ring

To document

Rawhide gök binding on a kerege joint, close

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Communal felt rolling, the women's half of the craft

To document

Carved bosogo door frame, painted motifs

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Shyrdak cutting, two layers, mirrored pattern

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The video QC walkthrough, before a shipment leaves

The People

The hands behind every boz üy.

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Nura

Partner · Operations, Bishkek

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Adylet

Partner · Master Builder, Kyzyl-Tuu

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The Kyzyl-Tuu workshop

Our artisan family

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