Turkey Karaz Rug - 2.73 x 2.02 Gabeh

Turkey Karaz Rug - 2.73 x 2.02 GabehRug weaving started in Turkey since 13th century with the arrival of the Seljuks , who were nomadic tribes from central Asia. In Ottoman Turkey, weaving patterns and techniques changed in the early sixteenth century after conquests in Persia and Egypt. Anatolia had been known for carpets with stylized animal and geometric designs, but with these new cultural contacts, carpets designed around a central medallion and with flowing saz style vegetation

Tribal Balouchi  The largest Balouchi tribal concentration

browns and greens and usually havewebbed fringes at the end

The impression that one gets looking at the carpet is that the designer went to great lengths to insure he managed to fill the carpet with as many flowers as possible

with its pear-shaped figure and extending arch of flowers and is said to symbolise the garden of paradise

Soumak lacks the slits characteristic of kilim

Warps are mostly cotton

There are shapes within shapes

Karabagh and Kuba

At the end of the 20th century

It has a central medallion shape and the parchment base colour of the field are repeated in the main guard borders

The most striking feature of this carpet are its proportions and shape which sit so well together

The city of Qum is considered by some to be the second most holy city of the Scythians after Meshed