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Milas
The history of many of the carpet
producing towns of Anatolia reaches back to antiquity. The precise origin
of
Milas is not recorded, but the district in the southwest of Anatolia
where the town lies (ancient Lydia), including the valley of the River
Meander, was settled by the Hellenes in the second millennium BC. The
textile tradition of the region goes back more than 4000 years, which
makes it probably the oldest of today's carpet producing areas where
the existence of textile weaving in antiquity can be proved. Melas production
is mainly in a stylised version of a prayer rug design with some even
retaining the arched end to point to Mecca. However, Milas are unique
in their colouring. No other place produces quite this combination of
grey-green, grey, rust, yellow, peach and brown. Milas rugs are always
woven in wool on a woolen warp.
Sizes available include: 12x9 only.
Obruk
Obruk is a town in Turkey that
has come to the forefront of carpet weaving, producing beautiful
copies of old Turkish and Caucasian designs. These include, amongst
others, Kazaks and Shirvans, which have a southern Russian influence.
A mixture of synthetic and vegetable dyes are used producing carpets
in subtle colours that are easy to furnish around. Generally woven with
a wool pile on a woolen warp in the Turkisk knot with double wefts for
rigidity.
Sizes available include: 10x8 only.
Kelims
The term Kelim does not refer to
a particular tribe of people but rather to the style of weaving worked
by 
any
one of a number of different tribes. Kelims are a type of flat-weave,
pileless carpet. They are generally geometric in pattern with the colours
rendered by different and discontinuous ground wefts. Most kelims are
also known as slit weaves. This is where the wefts of different colours
reverse direction on adjacent warps. Where several rows of wefts reverse
direction on the same adjacent warps, a slit in the fabric results.
Kelims can be synthetic or vegetable dyed and woven by people as far
west as the Navaho through Eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan,
the sub-continent and on through the East. Most of our kelims are Pakistani
or Persian in origin.
Sizes available include: 4'6x2'3, 5x3, 6x4 and 7x5.
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