Turkey Wool Rug - 1.32 x 0.72 Square

Turkey Wool Rug - 1.32 x 0.72 SquareRug 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

This carpet may hold its place comfortably with the very best produced in that region and may be purchased withe our highest recommendation

This is a beautiful rosette/flower shaped central medallion rug

which help to emphasis the stronger colour complex  field

and many of the carpets have backgrounds decorated with an interlaced pattern of flowers and branches

with two differently sized lamp motifs surrounding the design

When the end of the field is reached there is a sense that the patterns may continue beyond the borders of the rug

or perhaps even to the whole village community

A magnificent central medallion carpet that has around the medallion a beautiful subdued yellow coloured base field that together create the illusion of a human-eye

It is made from wool and comes from the city of Gorawan

The high knot density antique carpets in which Isfahan excelled continued to be woven in the late 19th and 20th centuries

Qum rugs are among the finest rugs in the world

An Afghan rug (or Afghan carpet) is a type of handwoven floor-covering textile traditionally made in the northern and western areas of Afghanistan