A radial wheel of bent willow ribs, steam-shaped by hand and lashed with rawhide cord. The keystone holding the structure open to the steppe sky.
Carded wool dampened and rolled underfoot for hours until it bonds. Felt that breathes in summer and insulates at forty below.
Mirror-symmetric ram-horn curls cut from dyed felt, stitched edge to edge. A bilateral pattern repeated across every interior surface.
Madder root for tundyk red, iron clay for ochre, walnut husk for mountain green. Natural dyes that age gracefully across decades.