Anatolian rug is a term of convenience, commonly used today to denote rugs and carpets woven in Anatolia and its adjacent regions. Geographically, its...

کیلیم; Turkish: kilim; Turkmen: kilim ) is a flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug traditionally produced in countries of the former Persian Empire, including...

Persian rugs, Pakistani rugs, Arabian rugs, Anatolian rugs, Kurdish rugs, Caucasian rugs, Central Asian rugs, Turkestanian (Turkmen, Turkoman) rugs, Chinese...

of Transylvanian rugs constitutes one of the largest collections of Ottoman Anatolian rugs outside the Islamic world. Amongst the rugs carpets preserved...

other regions also). Historically Ushaks were classified as ‘Anatolian Rugs,’ Anatolian literally translating to ‘land of the rising sun.’ Today scholars...

A prayer rug or prayer mat is a piece of fabric, sometimes a pile carpet, used by Muslims, some Christians, especially in Orthodox Christianity and some...

of Scandinavian rug-making is among the most storied of all European rug-making traditions. Turkish carpets (also known as Anatolian), whether hand knotted...

(Persian: فرش ایرانی, romanized: farš-e irâni [ˈfærʃe ʔfarˈsi]) or Persian rug (Persian: قالی ایرانی, romanized: qâli-ye irâni [ɢɒːˈliːje ʔfarˈsiː]), also...

 46–49) The "Dragon and Phoenix" and the "Marby" rugs were the only existing examples of Anatolian animal carpets known until 1988. Since then, seven...

highlights in ivory. These rugs are sometimes confused with Baluchi rugs, a type of Afghan rug. Eastern Anatolian Yürük rugs have hexagonal and lozenge...

Holbein actually only painted two); they are the commonest designs of Anatolian rug seen in Western Renaissance paintings, and continued to be produced...

weft. The Ghiordes/Turkish knot and the Senneh/Persian knot, typical of Anatolian carpets and Persian carpets, are the two primary knots. A flat or tapestry...

and rugs are primarily made in villages, rather than in cities. They are made from materials particular to individual tribal provinces, the rugs of the...

semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey Anatolian beyliks, small principalities in Anatolia governed by Beys, late 11th–13th...

hall, the reproduction of a painting by El Greco on one side and the Anatolian rug embroidery on the other reveals the general tendency of the group. The...

from Turkish tuzla, from the name of Lake Tuz in Turkey. A central Anatolian rug. Tzatziki from modern Greek tsatsiki, which is from Turkish cacık. Ugrian...

second-generation Greek-American World War II veteran, a son of an Anatolian rug merchant who went broke after Black Tuesday. He has come to use the...

flat-woven rugs, each with many variations. In Turkish Anatolia in particular, village women wove themes significant for their lives into their rugs, whether...

East Anatolian rug (detail), from the Şarkişla-Sivas region. Made c. 1800....

carpets, especially in Anatolian rugs of village or rural production, as well as in traditional Navajo weaving. A smaller rug can be woven continuously...

tapestry technique of weaving sturdy, decorative fabrics used for carpets, rugs, domestic bags and bedding, with soumak fabrics used for bedding known as...

Transylvanian Saxon merchants traded with the Ottoman Empire and often donated Anatolian rugs to their churches as a wall decoration more according to their iconoclastic...

Carpets, which is still in print today. Rugs were traditionally woven in Anatolia. Surviving carpets in Anatolian mosques have been dated back to the 13th...

East Anatolian rug (detail), from the Şarkişla-Sivas region. Made ca. 1800...

report: 1961. Anatolian Studies, vol. 12, pp. 41–65, 1962 J. Mellaart, Excavations at Çatal Hüyük, second preliminary report: 1962. Anatolian Studies, vol...

Scandinavia has a long and proud tradition of rug-making on par with many of the regions of the world that are perhaps more immediately associated with...

The Badding Rug is a Victorian cross-stitch needlepoint made in 1950 entirely by hand by Carolyn Badding of San Leandro, California. Measuring 12 feet...

major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into...

along with various local dynasties, developing their own architecture. Anatolian Seljuk architecture was more eclectic and was influenced by multiple traditions...

occupying Allies, led to the emergence of the Republic of Turkey in the Anatolian heartland and the abolition of the Ottoman monarchy in 1922, formally...