Parts of a Mongolian yurt

When ordering your yurt, you'll not only have to decide about the size of your yurt. Many options are available to your yurt. Please read hereunder to see some of the choices you'll have to make.

Inside Cover

The inside cotton is a thin plain white cotton with simple decoration that is put over the walls to cover the walls. This cotton hides the wooden structure (the walls of the yurt) and gives a white light inside the yurt. The cotton is also put behind the roof sticks to hide the felt.

We only offer this simple design of the inside cover. You can however choose the color of the decoration of the inside cotton. if you want to have it plain white we can make the decoration in white as well. So it will be white decoration on a white cotton.

The Walls

The wall of the yurts is the skeleton that carries the whole structure of the yurts. Depending of its size, a yurt has 3 to 8 walls. The more walls a yurt is made of, the larger the outline of the yurt.

Walls of a 10 wall yurt

Yurt Sizes

The Windows

There is a large window in the outermost top centre part of the roof named the crown. Additional windows on the sides of the yurts can be ordered if wanted. Roof windows are made of Plexiglas, side windows are made of vacuum windows. Roof windows have a special cover that protects the yurt during rainfalls.

The Door

The door have the same high as the walls. Normally yurts have one door only, but we produced yurts with 2 to 3 doors.

We offer the option of round door and windows in the door.

The crown

In the crown we offer the option of Plexiglas and windows. It's a new design we developed and we are probably one of the only yurt producers offering this option. We also offer a special crown skirt in order that the rain flows nicely from the crown on the outside cover.

The Felt

We offer Mongolian felt (better quality) and Chinese felt. We also offer single and double layer of felt. If you want to live in your yurt, better take a double felt. It keeps warm in the winter and fresh in the summer.

The felt of the yurt is put on the outside side of the walls and isolates the yurt. Mongolian felt is 100% natural, has some smell, but is of much better quality. It's also more expensive. Chinese felt is thinner, has no smell, is half synthetic, half made of wool. You can choose one of the following felts:

Types of felts

Chinese	Mongolian

The white felt is the Chinese felt and the dark felt is the Mongolian felt.

The Rain Cover, the skirt, the head

The rain cover protects the yurt against the rain. The rain cover is put directly over the felt. It is a one piece cover made of material used by the Russian army. It is adapted to the rain habits of North Europe. We are proud of the quality of the rain cover we supply.

The skirt is down around the yurt and makes sure that there is no wind coming in the yurt from down the yurts. It's important for windy regions.

Outside Cover

The outside of the yurt is covered by a thick white cotton. This cotton, being thick is a second protection against the rain.

The cotton can be plain white, have the traditional Mongolian decoration patterns or a more complex pattern.

See here the different designs we offer for the outside cotton.

The ropes

The whole structure is hold together by a delicate set of strings and ropes. We offer two types of ropes, ropes made from horse hair or synthetic ropes. Those strings are made of Mongolian natural materials.

There is a supplement for Mongolian natural horse hair ropes.

Here is a list of the different parts of your yurt. Before building your yurt, please make sure you have all the parts of your yurt.

Picture	Item	Q	Description
	Crown	1	Upper central wooden part of the yurt that support the roof of the yurt. The crown is painted with patterns. Four ropes keep the crown and the walls together. One rope pulls by mean of a heavy weight the crown downwards.
	Pools	2	The 2 poles are places in the centre of the yurt and support the crown. The poles are fixed to the crown by ropes. The supporting poles are painted with patterns.
	Roof sticks	46 to 98	Sticks are linking the crown to the walls. It support the roof. Depending on the yurt size there are different quantities of sticks. We supply extra sticks in case some brake. Sticks are fixed to the walls with ropes. The sticks are painted with patterns.
	Door	1	Entrance of the yurt that should face to the South. Ropes will held the door and the walls together. The door is painted with patterns.
	Walls	3 to 8	The walls are the outer supporting structure of the yurt. The nb of walls depends on the size of the yurt. Walls are hold together with ropes.
	Inside cover	1
	Upper felt	1	This is the felt covering the top part of the yurt. It isolates the yurt.
	Side felt	2	This is the felt covering the side parts of the yurt. It isolates the yurt.
	1	Top felt	This is the top felt to close to top opening of the yurt
	1	Rain cover	The rain cover protects the yurt from the rain.
	Outside cover	1	The outside cotton cover decorates the yurt.
	Belts	5 to 12	Belts are used to keep the yurt together.