If The
Woman Happens To Become A Mother, She Destroys Her Illegitimate
Offspring As The Only Means Of Saving Her Own Life And That Of The
Father.
The Turkman ladies dress in the common style of Syrian women; their
bonnet is adorned with strings of Venetian zequins, or other gold
pieces.
The dress of the men is that of the Turks of Anatolia. The
horsemen wear wide riding pantaloons, or Sherwalls, of cloth; their
head-dress consists of a red cap round which they twist a turban of
cotton or silk stuff; the wealthy wear turbans of flowered stuffs, or
even Persian shawls. Twenty years ago the national head-dress was a tall
and narrow cap of white wool, in the shape of a sugar-loaf, since that
time the Ryhanlu have left off wearing it, but I remember to have seen a
headdress of this kind during my stay with the Turkmans near Tarsus. The
Turkman women are very laborious; besides the care of housekeeping, they
work the tent coverings of goats hair, and the woollen carpets, which
are inferior only to those of Persian manufacture. Their looms are of
primitive simplicity; they do not make use of the shuttle, but pass the
woof with their hands. They seem to have made great progress in the art
of dyeing; their colours [p.640] are beauitful. Indigo and cochineal,
which they purchase at Aleppo, give them their blue, and red dyes, but
the ingredients of all the others, especially of a brilliant green, are
herbs which they gather in the mountains of Armenia; the dyeing process
is kept by them as a national secret.
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