Mongolyurt - Original Mongolian Yurts and Handicrafts

This is how we call the wood used for the various components of the yurt:

•  the walls (Khana)

• double door with one french leave and plaint one (Khaalga)

•  the poles (Uni)

•  the upper opening (Toono)

•  the central posts (Bagana)

This wood can be made of bot, pine tree or larch, regarding each wood qualities and each components elasticity and resistance constraints.

The wood undergoes a treatment " in water ". It spends several days (until 14) in the water, then it is dried, then reimmersed etc.... For this operation, we have our wood cut and pruned in the country side, 700Km from the capital and we use a spring of sulfured warm water.

After some cycles of this treatment, the resin goes out in the form of a dough looking like a sort of wallpaper glue : the wood is then dry, solid and very light, ready to be painted. It is completed.

The wood is cut by hand in the thread which explains some irregularities here or there.

The wood cut by machine has to be banned, especially to make the walls and the poles (we can see the wheels tracks on the wood, the roundness are perfect but the result is breakable).

Walls must be assembled by links made of camel leather. Cow or yak leather can also be used but the leather is too stiff once dry and it breaks.

The painting is made in our workshop. You can choose the color you want. We use German, Korean or Polish painting, in two layers. The varnish is Korean. The Chinese painting available in Mongolia is less expensive but of very inferior quality.

Under our latitudes a single felt lay is necessary, unless you live in Quebec or in Finland. But if later you wish to buy another lay, it is possible because we have stocks in our various warehouses.

Mongolian love the traditional felt. Of greyish color, it loosens a strong smell which becomes more marked with the humidity. For that reason we use a 85% wool and 15% synthetic of excellent quality white felt with very good insulating virtues.

This component is very important this is why it has to be selected with great care.

If we want a natural material, there are two types available in Mongolia:

• the Green khaki one (Chinese or Russian) which allows the water to pass easily
• The white one (Russian or Korean), much dearer, but more waterproof.

We chose this last one after trying funny experiments with glasses and the two types of cloth tightened over the glasses. We poured some water on the pieces of cloth.
The result was final: both let pass the water but the 1st one after 5 minutes as the 2d one after 2 hours.

In the light of our experience, we decided to get rid of the outside decorated cotton lay because it maintains an important humidity between itself and the waterproof cover. This decision sharply improved the life expectancy of the " soft materials".

If nevertheless, you wish to add an outside decorated cotton lay, they are always available in tens of motives and colors.

This fabric is made of off-white cotton. It protects the inside of the yurt from the residues of the felt. This element fits between the wood and the felt. This material has also an ornamental advantage because it emphasizes the crosspieces of walls.

Cut in the same cloth as the waterproof cover, the roof square protects the inside of the yurt of the water infiltrations by the toono. It can be pulled down in case of cold and of strong rains but it usually remains half opened by nice weather.

Yurts are then unsettled, packed in protection polyester sheets.

The container is loaded on a train for Dalian, China. From this port located in Northen China, your yurts will be loaded on a boat to Le Havre, Vancouver, Los Angeles or to Hamburg. As soon as the container arrives on its destination port and after being through customs, it is reloaded on a truck which delivers it to any of our warehouses, or directly to you, if you ordered a whole container.