Turkey Milass Rug - 5.10 x 0.85 classic

Turkey Milass Rug - 5.10 x 0.85 classicRug 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

It has a central medallion shape and the yellow colours appear in many places creating much elegance style and continuity

Highlighting a beautiful central medallion and marvelous motifs

The designs are geometric

The mihrab

It is extremely difficult not to get truly excited by this outstanding rug made by a master craftsman that has signed his work

wefts can be either cotton or wool

the central band often takes its motif from the ground design

hooked polygons

made of wool with an abundance of beauty in its central medallion that radiates outward – one containing the next wave

The majority are small

The carpet is made from silk and comes from the city of Qum

turquoise  grey and blues