One of the most developed handicrafts is carpet & rugs weaving. Local women for ages have ability to produce hand-made carpets & rugs. Only two oblasts in Kazakhstan have old traditions in carpet weaving. They are the Kyzylorda & Shymkent oblasts.  Unfortunately in the course of time carpet weaving is becoming to be lost as young women prefer to buy factory – made carpets and old aged women who known traditional carpet weaving became less number.  For finding really good hand-made carpet it’s needed to make serious search in the rayon's of the oblast. Since Kazakhstan became the independent state carpet weaving traditions as kazakh national handicrafts were considered to be restored. Two carpet weaving workshops had been recently opened in Kyzylorda city where the trained local  women are weaving kazakh carpets & rugs. This work is being leaded by Tahsin Parlak from Ataturk University (Turkey, Erzurum city) who is the person amazingly dedicating to carpets.