| Summary: | The article deals with felt viewed in the synthesis of national rites
and traditions. The subject sphere of the nomads formed by ethnic culture manifests
the spatio-temporal picture of the world onto relics of rituals and traditions. Their
preservation among the Kalmyks and other Turko-Mongols is clearly reflected in the
subject symbolism, an important part of which is constituted by felt products. Traditions
and rituals in everyday life and economic structures make it possible to identify the
dominant constants of material and spiritual cultures of the nomads, to trace mechanisms
of their functioning. The latter can be traced in artistic crafts accompanying the sphere
of ritual culture. Despite common origins with other nomadic cultures, the traditional
heritage of Mongolic peoples is original enough. This is the case with decorative
patterns of Kalmyk felts preserving the archaic layer of nomad ornaments. Due to the
natural and ethnocultural landscape, art is interconnected with ritual culture enriched
with ethnic peculiarities of Kalmykia’s artistic traditions.
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