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Pages in category "Turkish rugs and carpets" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Konya carpets; A.
Qaleen (Kaleen, Kalin, قالین) is a type of hand knotted piled carpet. [1] [2] The term is used throughout Turkey, Iran and Central Asia, and making qaleens is currently practised as a handicraft in Turkey and Iran. [3] Artisans may need at least two months to make one qaleen. [4]
Uşak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak Carpets (Turkish: Uşak Halısı) are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of Uşak, Turkey – one of the larger towns in Western Anatolia, which was a major center of rug production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire, into the early 20th ...
K. Erdmann: The History of the Early Turkish Carpet. London, 1977 [75] S. Yetkin: Historical Turkish Carpets. Istanbul, 1981 [178] W. Brüggemann and H. Boehmer: Carpets of the Peasants and Nomads in Anatolia, Munich, 1982 [86] B.Balpınar, U. Hirsch: Carpets of the Vakiflar Museum Istanbul. Wesel, 1988 [93]
Thanks to nearby Bodrum having become an international tourist venue and an intellectual center, Milas carpets and rugs occupy a privileged position among different Turkish carpet weaving traditions and they have entered into fashion trends both in and outside Turkey. For the whole territory of Milas district, up to 7000 weavers' looms remain ...
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By their design and structural details some of these carpets were likely woven in Bergama. [4] Interest in village carpet weaving as a distinct form of art has grown since the 1980s, when projects like the DOBAG Carpet Initiative revived the art of weaving carpets from handspun wool, dyed with traditional vegetal dyes. A branch of the DOBAG ...
The project aims at reviving the traditional Turkish art and craft of carpet weaving. It provides inhabitants of a rural village in Anatolia – mostly female – with a regular source of income. The DOBAG initiative marks the return of the traditional rug production by using hand-spun wool dyed with natural colours, which was subsequently ...