Anatolian rug is a term of accommodation,
regularly utilized today to mean floor coverings and rugs woven in Anatolia (or
Asia minor) and its neighboring locales. Geologically, its space of creation
can measure up to the regions which were verifiably overwhelmed by the Ottoman
Empire. It signifies a hitched, heap woven floor or divider covering which is
created for home use, nearby deal, and fare. Along with the level woven kilim,
Anatolian carpets address a fundamental piece of the provincial culture, which
is formally perceived as the Culture of Turkey today, and gets from the
ethnic, strict and social pluralism of perhaps the most antiquated focuses of
human civilisation.
Rug weaving addresses a customary specialty
tracing all the way back to ancient occasions. Floor coverings were woven
significantly sooner than even the most seasoned enduring carpets like the
Pazyryk rug would propose. During its long history, the workmanship and
specialty of the woven rug has assimilated and coordinated diverse social
customs. Hints of Byzantine plan can be seen in Anatolian rugs; Turkic people
groups moving from Central Asia, just as Armenian individuals, Caucasian and
Kurdic clans either living in, or relocating to Anatolia at various occasions
in history contributed their customary themes and adornments. The appearance of
Islam and the improvement of the Islamic craftsmanship has significantly
affected the Anatolian carpet plan. Its decorations and examples hence mirror
the political history and social variety of the space. Notwithstanding, logical
exploration couldn't, at this point, to credit a specific plan highlight to a
particular ethnic or provincial custom, or even to separate among roaming and
town plan patterns.
Inside the gathering of oriental covers, the
Anatolian carpet is recognized by specific qualities of its colors and
shadings, themes, surfaces and methods. Models range in size from little
cushions (yastik) to huge, room-sized floor coverings. The most punctual
enduring instances of Anatolian rugs realized today date from the thirteenth
century. Unmistakable kinds of floor coverings have been woven from that point
forward in court fabricates and commonplace workshops, town homes, ancestral
settlements, or in the wanderer's tent. Carpets were all the while created at
all various degrees of society, essentially utilizing sheep fleece, cotton and
common colors. Anatolian rugs are frequently attached with even bunches, which
were so generally utilized in the space that Western carpet vendors in the mid
twentieth century received the expression "Turkish" or
"Ghiordes" tie for the method. From the 1870s onwards, the Ottoman
court fabricates additionally delivered silk-heaped rugs, in some cases with
inwoven strings of gold or silver, yet the customary rugerial of most of
Anatolian rugs was hand-turned, normally colored fleece.
In Europe, Anatolian carpets were every now and
again portrayed in Renaissance compositions, regularly in a setting of
nobility, notoriety and extravagance. Political contacts and exchange
strengthened between Western Europe and the Islamic world after the thirteenth
century AD. At the point when direct exchange was set up with the Ottoman
Empire during the fourteenth century, a wide range of floor coverings were from
the start aimlessly given the business trademark of "Turkish" rugs,
paying little heed to their genuine spot of manufacture.[3] Since the late
nineteenth century, oriental carpets have been dependent upon workmanship
noteworthy and logical premium in the Western world.The wealth and
social variety of rug weaving were step by step better comprehended. All the
more as of late, additionally level woven rugs (Kilim, Soumak, Cicim, Zili)
have pulled in light of a legitiruge concern for gatherers and researchers.
The craftsmanship and art of the Anatolian rug
went through genuine changes by the presentation of manufactured colors from
the last third of the nineteenth century onwards. The large scale manufacturing
of modest rugs intended for business achievement had brought the antiquated
practice near termination. In the late 20th century, projects like the DOBAG
Carpet Initiative have effectively restored the practice of Anatolian rug
weaving utilizing hand-turned, normally colored fleece and conventional designs.