Mongolian Felt Making

[TheMzey]

Does this tell you how a yurt is made from mongolian felt? Homework.

[coolbeckyk]

@yuqing827 translation= "Ah the mysteries of nature"

[HWEisRISING]

Can i get this shit on i tunes????

[gawara]

@HWEisRISING Not yet. I'll see what I can do... But right now I'm pretty caught up making other films. Sorry.

: )

[ophelianymph]

Sheep: GIVE ME MY BLOODY COAT BACK

ha no jokes aside,  very interesting video, i have made felt from dog and cat hair so very interesting video

[SALEEMCLPK]

i want to go there

[AvitarDhre]

Thanks for sharing. I've been to Mongolia twice now and love it but I haven't seen the felt making. They work very hard but its so beautiful! I'll be going back again.

[jee161]

wow what a video hi every one hazara mongol here from pakistan Muhammed Arif changazi.any one wana chat with me Pegion_player20@yahoo.com

[ScribbleShot]

that's so cool!

[RegalLineage]

amazing video. thank you

[5tonyvvvv]

@nonioko not entirely true,iam from northern china gansu province,and most of my  ancestors and relatives are from mongolia.and the cultures are very simalir,we make felt eat sheep.and ride horses.and in ancient times we traded and lived togther.we knew no boundaries.the line is there today from china to mongolia

[CamKids1]

Beautiful video and I love the music that goes with it. Being a felt maker myself, I can appreciate the hard work going into making a jurt!

[Mongookloser]

@Waebuster Nothing wrong with me or with you ! I like kimchi and also eat my buuz. I really think cooperation/confraternization between nations is the key for success. Example : Mongolia joins China and becomes a superpower, btw, Korea could join too. You guys could create the AU ( Asian Union ). If Japan joins you can say bye-bye to American hegemony !!! History should always be on the move !

[bigchinzo]

@Mongookloser Oy! never say Mongolia should join with china again! Almost every chinese is just greedy fool who has no appreciation of FREEDOM! just like disgusting cockroaches they multiply and devour everything. They know no shame. They dont know concept like "A Man should live with Dignity,Pride,Honor, and last Virtue" . We prefer to die than annexing with Chinese fools. Today's china is rich and powerful because 98% chinese are fools who only know how to obey and work like slaves till die.

[Mongookloser]

@Waebuster so kimchi and buuz go well together, eh ?

[7Tartarus]

I own a Mongolian restaurant in Denver-Colorado. You should come for some buuz if you can get a visa. I promise we won't poison you ! haha, my wife didn't kick my ass, she's right here, right now !

Listen up. If you guys joined China you'd be part of a superpower. Shanghai would be yours too. Money, education, medical care, hoising, nuclear power. What's bad about it ? Forgive and forget. Peace between China/ Mongolia and you two together could claim Siberia. Lake Baikal'd be Mongolian again !

[bunyipist]

love this too

[bilgyynei]

Not ALL Mongolians live in Inner Mongolia, like you are insinuating. And Inner Mongolians don't speak with Khalka accent like these folks here!

[Mongookloser]

@bilgyynei there are more mongs in inner mongolia than in outer !

[mondoisme]

we are so different people if u look at us carefully or u live in mongolia and china for several weeks and u can see how different we are .i can see difference between japanese chinese korean mongolian vietnamese thai malaysian almost every asian people but i cant see difference between other europeon people same like u cant see diffrence.got it man and gl

[MartaBtrp]

Bravo!

[Mongolorszag]

Hungarians are also mongolian nomads.

[otherwise1000]

they dont. you just cant tell because you are not from that area. ask any native korean/chinese/japanese if they can tell the difference and the majority will say yes.

[Dbev1]

wow that looks pretty cool, so they shear the wool off, tear it up with the sticks i guesss? pour water and roll it, and its naturally comes out nice and smooth as it did in the end. or am i missing something haha, but nice video, really awesome

[Khamomil]

I didn't see a washing stage. Do they felt the wool unwashed ?

[gawara]

That's an interesting question. We simulated the making of the felt, so what you see at the end was not actually made from what you saw at the beginning. This is probably the most popular short cut from my documentary "Mujaan" about how Mongolian nomads build their homes by hand. I didn't know it would be...

[5tonyvvvv]

@gawara does the felt get soaked from rain? and leak in ?

[gawara]

The felt does get soaked from the rain in the summertime. It rarely rains so much that you get a lot of leaking. Mongolia is mostly a dry country. And usually rain will only last for a couple of hours or days before the sun comes out again. I suspect that nomads will use plastic, waterproof tarps more and more, however.

[pask54]

@gawara I would think they would not wash it because the lanolin in the wool would help make the fibers repel water/rain. I had sheep at one point in my life and am looking into doing alittle felting now and found my way here. This video is great!

[gawara]

@pask54 Explain to me a little more about "washing" the wool, so I can address your question or idea. Your response was posted after I answered someone's question about rainy weather. Are you asking about the step in the process in which they add water? If so, they weren't actually washing it. My impression is that that helped the fibers knot up while it was rolling.

[RaeRaetheJetPlane]

I love to work with felt and wool....glad to learn more about it!

[istotatora84]

that was amazing - from a pile of hair to awesome material

[Tugso]

ye that kinda sets you back in time

[EcCctoplasma]

lets  give a F4ck of the Industry and live in the past ^^ in the best for the world

[carash25]

humility and simplicity is beauty.

[xioda07]

They maybe the ancestors of the native americans. Since some of them crossed over the icey bering strait down to North, Central, & South america.

[BirgitBettina]

wow! cool! thanks for posting this.

[itsxtony]

that is soo friggin cool

[Deborahblack]

There is something remarkably appealing in this lifestyle and this culture. The authentic mini-communal life, the peace in their reality compared to the chaos in mine (American), and the brutal everyday life they live. I know it is difficult to prevent having an ethnocentric approach when exposed to other cultures, but the fact that there are videos like this, in which people are viewing, I hope, is a step toward more global understanding. .

[yld629]

Ya I find the simpler life more appealing too.. In fact I often fantasize about Just leaving everything behind and taking up a more straightforward lifestyle like these Nomads.

[munguntulga]

sure, 1st reason is that they live in a natural environment without pollution and diseases.

2nd they are very active and have to hunt for food or grow them. 3rd they do not use and eat the stuff we eat which is really bad for us. 4th my father's uncle is 89 and he looks like he is 50 and still rides horses and my great grandmother is 110

[aldaraa]

And also this kind of life is very satisfactory and peaceful. Living one's life in nomadic society is very lucky. People don't know how happy these people live.

[munguntulga]

that the way was meant to live, one with nature.

[wizzboy76]

Atleast they do not have to pay bills, get stuck in trafic, keep up with bank payments, catch a train at rush hour.

[acr08807]

Worry about living past 40...

[munguntulga]

in mongolia especially nomads live to be over 80s.

[ForeverTheFirst]

What's that supposed to mean? They've been doing it for thousands of years back to the time when people around the world lived in caves. I'd rather say, who would have guessed that the rest of the world would have progressed as such to destroy themselves!!!

[stperkin]

I love anthropology. And humanity in general.

[emkbf]

I use this in class all the time to illustrate the fantastic uses of wool - thankyou all the kids love it everytime I show it - thankyou

[musumeci88]

Hundreds of those yurts can be taken down, moved, and put back up in less than an hour. Great for many on horseback looking for somewhere to sleep and not with a lot of time between all the pillaging :)

[chysco]

nice video!

[swastionly]

Great video. It is wonderful learning material for Textile students....and a statement of how this ancient method of community based felt making utilised the materials to teh optimum...!!

wish we can have more such videos...a way for the textile interested people to connect

[neovana]

wonderfull

[xNyanPanx]

That was pretty much awesome.

[jeancharlesa]

nice video,

i wanna go there few months

[Shalinar45]

LOVELY song to make felt by!

[mandinka1234]

Now that was cool. I have a great deal of respect for people like that. We complain about running out of milk for our morning coffee, those folks just milk there goat or sheer there sheep and there good to go.

Amazing!

[Burlapin]

Wow, very well done. Nice style. Beautiful!

[battsee]

SUPER JOLIE VIDEO. BRAVO

[ananasangria]

wooww!!! good video!

[FeltTastic]

What a stunning video. A wonderful part of the world I long to visit. Do you know what was used to wet the wool down with?

[gawara]

Water. : )

[FeltTastic]

Sounds like a stupid question I know, but urine of young boys was a favorite in traditional felting

[mytribeismypride]

WOW!

[oneginee]

I liked watching this video. It is peacefull.

I don't understand how it becomes one piece from all the heap.

[gawara]

The wool gets dragged around for a long long time; maybe a few weeks. It turns into a giant dreadlock basically.

[msintrprttd]

this is amazing

[sparkfiberarts]

Wonderful video. What part of Mongolia is it shot in?

[gawara]

Henti - about 300 km northeast of Ulanbatar.

[cuarrech]

Thank you so much for uploading this video. Amazing, awe-inspiring and educational. My favorite!