Occupy Toronto goes high style with $20,000 yurts - thestar.com: "Materials: Groovy Yurts are handmade in Mongolia, according to the company’s website. Pieces of wood are latticed together and secured with horse hair to form the walls, which are covered with canvas and insulated with felt. Mongolian gers feature ornate wooden doors; Turkic yurts often use a felt flap. The glass-windowed ceiling peak – toono in Mongolian – is propped up by wooden beams, or baagans.
Design: Dome-shaped and sturdy, Mongolian gers are often embroidered with colourful Buddhist symbols. Kyrgyz and Kazakh versions might have a thatched design, akin to a family crest, in place of the ceiling window. Wong suggested the symbols on the Occupy Toronto yurts represented “peace, love, respect, unity and delicious food.”"
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