The exclusive designs of handmade new and old carpets , rugs and kilims from mainly Anatolian and also Persian, Caucasian and Central Asia origins so extensive that they cover hundreds of years. All are hand knotted on traditional wooden looms using hand carded , hand spun. made of pure silk ,wool , cotton and combinations of them.

Short History:

After the flatweaves , pile carpets started to developed. Primitive pile with long and shaggy piles carpets were made most probably as a simulation of a sheep skin. Later on fine designs were imposed on them. In 1949, a Russian archeologist , Rudenko , executed carpet fragments in the Pazyryk region of Altai mountains. So this carpet is called as Pazyryk carpetand was assumbly made in 5-4 th century.

Technique and Terms:

In pile carpets, there are mainly two knotting techniques. The first one is Turkish knot, (also known as double-knot, Gordes and symmetrical). In this technique both warps are under equal tension and both loops of the knot lye on the same level.

Carpet weaving is very old tradition among Turks. Traditionally it is business of women to weave carpets. The experiences have passed through from generation to generation. Women and girls wove carpets for their dowry in nomadic Turkish tribes. There must be 3-4 carpets of different sizes in a dowry of a girl before the marriage.

WARP The threads that run from one end to the loom to the other, usually in the long dimension of the fabric, around which the pile knots are tied. The warps are held taut by the beams of the loom and, when cut, the loose warp ends from the fringe.

WEFT The threads that run across the width of the loom, perpendicular to the warps, with which they interlace. The weft is not attached directly to the loom. Each passage of the weft is referred to as a “shoot,” and there may be a number of shoots after each row of knots. The weft usually runs across short dimension of the fabric.

KNOT The process of wrapping yarn around the warps to form a pile is known as knotting.

FRINGE Extension of the warp threads on two opposite sides of a rug.

BORDER A design that surrounds the field in an Oriental rug

FIELD The part of the rug lying between the border.

MEDALLION is the round, oval, or polygonal design element that sometimes occupies the center of the field.