Some places that have great importance in the production of carpets in the country.
Turkish carpets, also known as Anatolian carpets are from Turkey. The oldest carpet found in Turkey dating from the thirteenth century and were discovered in the city of Konya, which was long the center of carpet production in Turkey. The carpets made in the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries are quite similar to Persian rugs.
 
Turkish carpets are heavily influenced by the Greeks, who once dominated the production of carpets. These carpets, which are thicker, are made of wool, cotton and silk, and they are still tied at the Turkish knot, also called a node or Ghiordes turkbaff. The reasons commonly used are based on the prayer niche with more geometric shapes. Neither men nor animals represented there because the Koran forbids it. 
Cappadocia in central Turkey. 
The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. 
Waterfall in Manavgat, in the district of Alanya. The most common carpet today are produced on a smaller scale in Ankara and in the region of Konya. They are marketed, among others, under the names Jerevan, Kayser, MEKRA, Hereke, Ghiordes, Kula, Oushak, and Yahyali Yagcibedir.
 
Anatolia (Anadolu in Turkish, Greek anatoli anatol or “rising sun” or “East”, compared to the East to the extreme severity, possibly from Turkish to ana “mother” and dolu “full”) is another name of Asia Minor, the peninsula of southwestern Asia that brings together most of Turkey. The landscape is dominated by high mountain ranges. In contemporary Anatolia, the largest city is Ankara, the capital of Turkey, which lies at the center of the peninsula.
Carpets Bidjar 
  A beautiful hand knotted carpets Bidjar creates the comfort of home.
Bidjar is the name of a small Kurdish city in western Iran. Kurdish carpets are often very strong and compact, thereby providing extreme durability. For many connoisseurs of carpets, Bidjar name is the symbol of strength. The weavers use their heavy wooden comb and metal together and beat the pack frame and son nodes so that the pile appears almost straight. The velvet surface is therefore very compact, which prevents the gravel and other small particles from entering the carpet. Carpets, tied the knot Turkish, are usually red and blue with a few insertions of beige.
 
This is the reason Herati (also called ground fish) is the most common, but there are also reasons or floral medallions. Carpets Bidjar are in most sizes of zaronim (150 x 200 cm) to larger sizes. They have an elegance and find their place in most environments. Their durability makes them ideally suited to carpet public places.
 
Examples of carpet Bidjar: Bidjar 207×145
   Bidjar Zanjan 120×86
   Bidjar Zanjan 175×110
   Bidjar 295×20Watch a film clip about Bidjar, Click the Play button! 
   The reverse of a carpet Bidjar.
Specifications:
Pile: wool
Filling: cotton, usually three rows of weft between rows of knots
Warp: cotton yarn
Knot: symmetrical
Density: 250 000 - 400 000 knots per square meter
 Curly (curly rug or carpet Brussels / Bruxelles, said loop pile carpet): The term refers to rugs woven jacquard loops formed by an additional channel, called “chain hair.” They are composed of several systems for son, one for each color pattern, and weaving base consists of a chain of filling system (additional chain) and a frame, which means that the ground n not appear on the back of the carpet. When the loops are cut, this is known as Wilton carpet.
 
Bukhara (Bukhara carpets) made by the Turkmen tribes in East Turkestan in Central Asia. Previously, the city of Bukhara was a place of business of these carpets. Today, carpets bearing the respective name of various tribes and their generic name is now “Turkmen carpets. Today, the term “carpet Bouchara” is used instead for carpets that have a particular reason, the reason Bukhara, which is a repetitive pattern using the pattern Gol.
 
Bukhara Suzani-(Suzani Bukhara-carpets) embroidered carpets from Central Asia, particularly in Bukhara, Uzbekistan. These carpets are made of cotton, hand woven and embroidered silk in many colors were manufactured primarily in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by women within families. The carpets were often part of the dowry of girls as compensation for the price that was paid to the bride.
  
 
Bursa (Bursa or carpet Brussa) carpets generally small sizes made of silk prayer rugs and family called Saff. These carpets are manufactured in the city of Bursa (or Bursa), south of the Marmara Sea.
 Burchalov (carpet or Burchalov Bortchalou): Hand-knotted carpets from the district Bortchalou in the eastern part of Hamadan in western Iran. These carpets, with the warp and weft are the son of cotton, often decorated with medallion or flowers and they are of high quality. 
  

Armanibaff: knotted carpet as Armenian. Tied the knot (Turkish symmetrical knot, or Ghiordes) in relatively dark color. Regarding the reasons, this type of carpet is composed of geometric or Mir-Ibotha. They recall the carpet and Loristan Bakhtiar.
 
Armenians (Armenian carpet): hand-knotted carpets produced in Armenia, for example Karabakh carpets, some Kazak rugs and carpets Jerevan. Former carpet “dragon” are also carpets Armenian, as well as carpet and rug Marby Berlin.
 
Arraiolos (Arraiolos carpet): embroidered carpets are manufactured in the Portuguese town of Arraiolos, in the Alentejo region. The oldest are probably the seventeenth century and were inspired by Persian carpets.
  
 
Asadabad (carpet Asadabad): knotted carpets hand from the province of Hamadan in Iran.
 
Ashkali: name of a carpet pattern that is sometimes found on older rugs Ghashghaï, but rarely on anything newer. This pattern is composed of two octagons, the one placed inside the other, that of the interior is filled with hooks tightly.
 
The node is also called asymmetrical Persian knot or node Senneh. It sometimes gives him the name farsibaff.
 
In the asymmetrical knot, the pile yarn (red in the illustration) forms a loop around one warp yarn (light yellow) and moves freely under the following. Between each row of knots, it inserts the weft yarn (blue) on one or more rows. The asymmetric node allows a higher density and carpets with richer detail.
 
The asymmetrical knot is used on carpets workshops Persian (Iran) as well as India, Turkey, Egypt, in China.
Azerbaijani (Azeri carpet): Hand-knotted carpets are made partly in the south-eastern Caucasus, Azerbaijan, and partly in neighboring Iran, also called Azerbaijan (Iran). Carpets of the Caucasus called Akstafa, Chila, Lenkoran, Mugan, Shirvan or Talysh. The Iranian carpet called Heriz, Karaj, Tabriz and Sarab.
 
Bath (bath mat or bath mat) mat designed above all to the bathroom where we put the feet out of the shower or bath. You can totally use a hand-knotted carpets for this purpose, but remember to dry it properly afterwards.
 
Bahawalpur (Bahawalpur carpet): knotted carpets hand from the city and the Pakistani province of the same name.
 
Bakshaish (carpet Bakshaish) carpets made in Iran in a region that stretches from Lake Urmia (or Urmia) until Heriz.
Bakhtiar Rugs 
 A Bakhtiar rug, durable and hand-knotted, finds its place in the entry.
In the Zagros Mountains, west of the city of Isfahan, near the city of Shahr-e Kurd, living the nomadic Bakhtiari. Most of them speak Persian or a Luri dialect, while some others who live in Khuzestan province, speak Arabic. Bakhtiari men wear baggy pants, a hat round bell and a short tunic, a dress whose origins date back as far as the Parthian Empire (from -200 to 200 AD.). The heads (or khan) Bakhtiari nomads have consistently held important positions in Persian society. In the region of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, a carpet production scale employs both nomadic villagers from various origins.
 
The carpets are marketed under the common name Bakhtiar (also Baktiar, Bachtiar and Bakhtiari) with sometimes an indication of location: Boldaji, or Feridan Saman. These carpets are made of solid wool, they fought very vigorously, which makes them very thick and strong, and they are considered part of the Persian rugs last longer. A well-known motif is the motif says Khesti (garden) where the carpet is divided into boxes that contain plants and animals, symbolizing the Persian garden, but there are also drawings or medallions that represent trees of life with influences of Isfahan carpets.
 
Top Bakhtiar rug knotting which is the densest is occasionally called Bibibaff.
 
Examples of carpet Bakhtiar:
Bakhtiar Sherkat Farsh 393×297
   Bakhtiar 340×258
   Bakhtiar 406×298
   Bakhtiar 368×257Watch a film clip about Bakhtiar, Click the Play button! 
The reverse of a carpet Bakthiar.
Specifications:
Pile: wool
Filling: cotton thread, sometimes colored blue, 1 or 2 frame son
Warp: cotton yarn
Knot: symmetrical general
Knotting density: 70 000 - 200 000 knots per square meter
Sizes: from zaronim to larger sizes
  
Baku (Baku rug) carpets made famous oil town in the Caucasus, Baku and its environs. The reason stylized flame, called Mir-e Buth is one of the most common reasons on Oriental carpets. On the old carpets, the chain is wool, cotton fabric often, and the density is usually 100 000 150 000 knots per square meter.
 
Balkans (Balkan carpet): hand-knotted carpet mainly from Romania, Greece, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslavia. Patterns are borrowed from Persian carpets, Turkish and Caucasian carpets are those made of wool of good quality. The synthetic colors are not as clear and pure as the Persian carpets, for example, were used.
Baluch Rugs 
 
Hand knotted carpets made by Baluchi nomads who live around the border between Iran and Afghanistan.
The Baluch living in the border regions between Afghanistan and Iran. The term Baluchi is a generic name that refers to nomadic tribes belonging to small and diverse backgrounds. They derive their livelihoods from agriculture, livestock, sheep, goats and camels as well as carpet weaving.
 
Baluch rugs are very similar carpets from Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. The colors are dull in shades of dark red, dark blue, black and brown. The designs are geometric with stylized trees of life. They are often drawn as prayer rugs with prayer niches.
 
The carpets are sometimes decorative fabrics kilims widths to protect against wear. Lengths, they are often made of several cables, sutures by the goat hair or horse hair. The chain is made of wool or a blend of wool and goat hair, and the newer carpets is cotton.
 
The performance is of high quality carpets are tight and fine and give a real feel of authentic nomad crafts. The carpets are mostly made in small sizes, with motifs alive, and prayer rugs are common.
 
These carpets are sold in part in the city of Mashhad, Iran, they are then called Baluch rugs Mashad, and partly in the city of Herat, Afghanistan, Herat are the Baluch.
 
Examples of Baluch rugs: 
   
  

Here, a carpet Gabbeh being forged in the same manner as that used for centuries.
The hand-knotted carpets are made from perishable materials, and very old are rare discoveries. The oldest known carpet was found in 1947 during excavations in Siberia. This mat Pazyryk, or mats of Gorny Altai, the name of the place of its discovery. It measures 183 x 200 cm and its density is 360 000 knots per square meter. The performance is excellent and the carpet has a population density higher than most rugs found today in commerce. The drawings are very interesting with the center consisting of a rosette pattern, the edge where we see a procession of deer and other surrounding warriors on horseback. This carpet was probably made in Armenia or Persia about 400 years before the birth of Christ. When it was discovered he had been long frozen, trapped in a block of ice, which explains why it is so well preserved. The carpet is now in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. 
   The famous Ardabil carpet.
 
In the sixteenth century, under the protection of sovereigns, the art of belt has developed in Persia and India, both the technical and artistic, in what is known manufactures of court. From this period dates the beautiful carpet that is best known in the world: the Ardabil carpet, which is located at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Measuring 534 x 1152 cm, it was probably made by Maqsud, or Maksoud, in the city of Kashan in Persia. The rug is dated to the year 946 by the Muslim calendar which corresponds to the year 1539 AD, and it took three years to five to make this rug weavers who had been ordered by the Shah Tahmasb for the mosque Safir. 
  There was originally two mats, but one has been sacrificed to repair the other. Whoever is the best preserved is now at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The remains of the other are the United States, the Los Angeles County Museum. The carpet has been crafted using the Persian knot, velvet is made of wool, the warp and weft are made of silk. Its density is 518 000 knots per square meter. The carpet was sold in the nineteenth century to finance the repairs of the Great Mosque of Ardabil in northern Persia.Remains in Pasargadae, a city in the pre-Persian Morghab plain, about 90 km northeast of Shiraz in Iran. 
The treadmill is kept at Marby Historiska Museet in Stockholm, the Museum of National Antiquities. This carpet was manufactured in Turkey in the fifteenth century and was brought to Stockholm via Marby village in the province of Jämtland. 
  The treasure may be the largest castle in Stockholm is the Persian carpet hunting the second half of the sixteenth century. This carpet has probably been introduced in Sweden by the princely house of Holstein-Gottorp as a component of the ring of the future Queen Hedwig Eleonore-before her marriage to Charles X Gustav.

Quality controls are many and they are made, among others, on the spot by our buyers.
All rugs sold CarpetVista.com underwent quality control very thorough and rigorous. We monitor every mat during the purchase process in his country of origin and of lesser quality carpets are immediately ignored.
 
After being shaved and washed and dried, the carpets are rechecked and holes or minor defects are repaired if necessary before the carpets are shipped to our warehouse. Carpets should not show visible wear brand and color should not be passed.
 
When the rug arrived at our warehouse, they are checked again (though they are photographed) to ensure that no damage occurred during transport. We control the carpet looking for potential holes and verify that the fringes are full and the finish of the sides are intact. Variations in color and size are also checked and repairs should have been made in the rules of art. If the carpet does not respond well to our exacting standards, they will not be more for sale!
 
All of these controls is also done in packing the above sending a carpet you ordered - all for that, as a customer, you are as happy as possible in your carpet!
We see here an example of speaking on a carpet Abrash Lori.
 
 
You should also know the following:
If you chose a carpet or rug nomadic village for your home, you must accept that this carpet may have variations in color, size and shape - it is not perfectly symmetrical, the reasons are a bit primitive and the background color changes huThis last item is called and it Abrash is that we have used different son from dye baths. Formerly, this was seen as a problem, but over time it has been established that Abrash were not such a bad thing on nomadic and village rugs. They give the carpet a lot more life and positive energy, and today a number of carpet weavers use Abrash voluntarily to give the carpet a living character and uniqu
On the carpet Gabbeh presented here on the right, a perfect example of the variations that can be found in the patterns and shapes. Below, another example on a carpet Lori, with variations of shapes, colors and patterns.
Afshar Rugs
Afshar rug, hand knotted by the semi-nomadic Afshar, near Kerman in southeastern Iran.
Around the city of Kerman in southeastern Iran, the semi-nomadic tribe of Afshar. There are many centuries, these nomads lived in the north-western Iran, but a branch of the tribe was forced to leave the current region, where the carpet industry became an important economic sector.
 
These carpets have shades of red and blue and most of them are geometric patterns. The most common reason is composed of a large central field with one or more square medallions. Some believe it symbolizes the skin of an animal that is stretched before being primed. There is also now the medallion pattern which is typical of Afshar rugs is that they are relatively large compared to their length.
 
In the nearby town of Shahr Babak, are woven rug with a similar density of knotting higher grounds and with richer detail. Afshar rugs are also marketed under the name Sirdjan.
 
Examples Afshar rug: 
   Afshar 227×161
   Afshar 301×197
   Afshar 178×128
   Afshar 259×187
Agra (Agra carpet): hand-knotted carpets from the city of Agra, India. It was here that two of the largest woven carpet in the world. One is located at Windsor Castle, England, and measure 10.25 x 21.50 m and the other is in a hotel in Agra and even measuring 12.25 x 39 m!
 
Needle (needle carpet): a type of carpet felt like a carpet.
 
Ak-Hissar (carpet Ak-Hissar): Anatolia rugs Hand knotted geometric patterns. Made north-east of Izmir, Anatolia. 

Akhty or Akhti (carpet Akhti): Hand-knotted carpets from the city of Akhty in the North Caucasus.
 
Akstafa (carpet Akstafa): Caucasian rugs hand-knotted. They tied the knot tight and Turkish generally rectangular format.
Once the material to the carpet has been spun, it will be dyed. This is a complicated process that requires knowledge and precision to achieve a satisfactory result. 
  The wire is immersed repeatedly in large baths of dye that penetrates the color depth correctly. 
  Son dyed in the sun to dry.
Now, for high quality carpets, often used son who have been dyed exclusively with natural dyes. The most common carpet often contain a mixture of natural and synthetic dyes.
 
Some natural dyes can be manufactured very easily by picking, for example, nut husks and grenades and making a decoction Other stains are easier to produce synthetically. 
   

A selection of son-dyed before they stain a beautiful hand-knotted carpets.
  
The dye can be made at home or by giving the wire to a laundromat. The nomadic and village rugs sometimes show variations in color, they are called “Abrash”. They arise because the weaver does not have at the outset of a sufficient quantity of yarn of one color.

Tools
To make a carpet, it takes intense work, but also various tools and utensils … 
   Design
The reasons for a rug can be traditional, simple, very detailed. Each carpet is different … 
 Today, there are rugs round, rectangular, oval, square and the runners …
 
Knotting
On carpet, the knots are generally of two kinds: symmetrical or asymmetrical.
  Dressing
Once finished knotting, the rug will go through four additional steps to get its final look … 
  On an Oriental carpet, the warp and weft is the son of the pile foundations and gives it its durability. For the carpet has a long lifetime, it is important to keep it clean gravel and sand scour the carpets, and more often wear marks first appear on the fringes and on the board sides. 
  Keep in mind also that even if a hand knotted carpet is often regarded as a work of art, it was designed primarily to be used and that you walk on it. A hand knotted carpet is often strong and durable, you can use it without making you worry. The fact is that, in fact, a carpet that is exposed to normal wear can embellish over the years!
 
Here are some tips for daily care and procedures in case of accident.
Carpets Abadeh
  
One of runners Abadeh Hand knotted wool son.
Exactly midway between Shiraz and Isfahan is the city of Abadeh. For visitors, it has not much interesting to offer, but here are woven carpets in common use in good quality.
 
Originally, the carpet had a Abadeh motif vases, and relatively bland colors. The rugs that difficult to stay on the market, the weavers have sought new grounds. They were inspired by nomads who ghashghaïs their summer pastures in the region. The carpet then took a red-brown shade of blue combined, and medallions on the central field and angles.
 
These carpets usually have at their center, a large hexagon with a medallion and a rosette in the corners, a kind of variant of the pattern Heybatlou. The field is covered with small representations of birds, four-legged animals as well as trees and flowers. The Abadeh make good carpets in common use since they are very strong, tough and durable. 
  Samples of carpet Abadeh: 
   Abadeh Sherkat Farsh 275×189
   Abadeh Sherkat Farsh 301×205
   Abadeh 245×160
   Abadeh Sherkat Farsh 311×200
 Quality Control 
   
  

 East Turkestan rugs.
Important places of manufacture of carpets in East Turkestan.
The East Turkestan carpets are those made in Xinjiang (formerly known as East Turkestan), a province in northwestern China. These hand-knotted carpet colors and motifs of Chinese types and Turkmen.
 
These rugs were made, among others, in the cities of Kashgar (Kaxgar), Yarkand and Khotan, but as it is in the merchant city of Samarkand that Westerners discovered the carpets, the old production was and is often referred the name of Samarkand carpet (or rug Samarkand).
 
The recent production (since 1945) is called Sinkiang rug or carpet Xinjiang and it consists of simple utilities that carpet yarn is spun by machine and the colors are synthetic. These carpets are geometric designs and traditional Chinese motifs that are most prevalent.
 European Carpets 
European production of carpets came primarily from these countries: France, England, Spain and Ireland.
Oriental carpets began to appear in Europe after the Crusades in the eleventh century. Until the mid eighteenth century they were mainly used as wall decorations and tables.
 
In the early thirteenth century, Oriental carpets have gradually appeared on various paintings (those of Italy, England and France for example).
 
Carpets Indo-Persian design were introduced in Europe through Holland companies, British and French East India in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 
 French Rugs
When the French production of hand-knotted carpets began in 1608 at the initiative of Henry IV, are the Turkish rugs which served as a model and then use the node symmetric. 
The Louvre in Paris, which includes a large collection of rugs.
In 1628 production was moved to an abandoned soap factory near Paris Savonnerie hence the name. Oldest Savonnerie carpet made rugs are often referred to Louis XIII, which is somewhat misleading since they were manufactured during the years of regency of Louis XIV. The carpets were densely decorated with flowers, often in vases or baskets, but there were also military reasons and architectural elements. The motifs were borrowed from textiles and paintings from Holland and Flanders. The most famous Savonnerie carpets, 105 in total, are those that were woven for the “Great Gallery” and “Apollo Gallery” Palais du Louvre. The heyday of the production of Savonnerie lasted from 1650 to 1789.
 
In 1826, the production of Savonnerie was transferred to Paris, the Gobelins, a royal factory for the manufacture of woven tapestries and wall hangings for wrapping furniture. This transfer took place during the French Revolution and, after him, lowered the quality of carpets.
 
Production in the town of Aubusson began in 1743 in a small private studio and at Beauvais, were manufactured by hand-knotted carpets from 1789 to 1792. These copied drawings Turkish carpets, but they then studied variations in simpler style of the Savonnerie.
 
Today, there is not, in France, production that deserves to be mentioned, but the styles of the Savonnerie and Aubusson are copied by countries such as China, India and Pakistan. 
  
 The famous Tower Bridge in London, England.
Carpets English
The technique of carpet weaving is probably appeared in England in the early sixteenth century. Around the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most weavers were in the South East of England, around the city of Norwich. Carpet styles of the era were often borrowed motifs Anatolian and Indo-Persian. Exactly as in the French workshops, we worked with the symmetrical knot.
 
Today, there remains little blankets that time and those that still exist are private possessions and come from Exeter, Moorfield and Axminster. At the time, former French Savonnerie weavers worked at Exeter as Moorfield is why we find some patterns on the carpet in the region. Some of Axminster carpets were woven with a brown background and motives of birds.
 
Carpets English are always associated with the town of Kidderminster in Worcestershire, which was the cradle of the carpet industry in England throughout the industrial revolution. The Cathedral of Cadiz in southern Spain.
Spanish carpets
In Spain, the carpet back in the tenth century. From the eighth to the eighteenth century, Spain was subject to Muslim Moorish then brought the art of knotting carpets. This had resulted, inter alia, that the Spanish carpets were heavily influenced by Islamic motifs and style, often in combination with European motifs, such as Christian symbols, for example.
 
The oldest carpet in this home that has survived the centuries is the carpet called “Synagogue” and is dated the fourteenth century. At that time, the grounds covered the entire surface, they were repetitive and geometric elements with messages about Christian Spanish families.
 
Number of carpets in the fifteenth century drew their reasons rugs from Turkey. The grounds of the fifteenth century found on the carpet Spanish Renaissance from textile designs silk unoriginal. Two of the most popular motifs are wreaths and fruit pomegranate. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French styles are copied Aubusson and Savonnerie.
 
Today Spain is among the countries that still produce carpets, even if, ultimately, only a small number of carpet arrives on the market. These carpets are often slightly more expensive and of good quality. Spain also produces a number of carpets cheaper Moroccan style. 

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Irish Rugs
The carpet Irish really started around 1898, when the (Scottish textile worker Alexander Morton began the manufacture of carpets on the West Coast of (Ireland. These carpets then became known as Donegal in the tradition of Eastern baptize carpet name of their place of manufacture.
 
Several factories closed during the depression, and production was concentrated in the first factory in Killybegs. In 1954, the (company was sold to a consortium of Ireland, Donegal Carpets Ltd.., And production continued until (in 1987, when the factory was closed.
 
However, the people of Killybegs managed to get authorities to reopen the historic factory in 1997. The production was resumed in 1999 with the support of the Irish government. The handmade carpets that are produced in Killybegs today are the last to be found from the British Isles. These carpets are made to order, to the desired size and with the motifs chosen, which are often abstract
Carpets North African 
   Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt are countries which now produce carpets North Africa.
For North African rugs, carpets means originating from Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt.
 
In Tunisia, the carpet started for the first time in the middle of the nineteenth century, in the city of Kairouan. There are two types of carpet: those tied in Turkish style with geometric patterns and bright colors, and the ones with the untreated wool dyed in various shades.
 
In Morocco, the art of weaving carpets is older (200-300 years old) and is influenced by several currents. As in Tunisia, the new production is partially composed of rugs with colorful patterns are borrowed from Persia and Turkey. 
Is visible in the background the pyramids of Giza. 
Abu Simbel, a famous tourist destination in Egypt. A “ship of the desert” joyous mood.Egyptian carpets are often divided into three categories: the Mamluk carpets, rugs and carpets Cairo made recently. It is believed that the Mamluk carpets were made in Cairo under the dynasty of the Mamluks, from 1250 to 1517. They are large and are geometric patterns in shades of red, blue, and green. The mats of Cairo have them manufactured in Cairo between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century, and their motives, such as palm leaves, arabesques and medallions, are purely Persian.
 
The carpets are of recent manufacture of a high technical quality. They often wear Persian motifs, but their colors are less bright and velvet longer and weaker than the original Persian. There are also, in this recent production, silk carpets.
Oriental carpets are divided into three categories, depending on the environment in which they were made, namely: nomadic rugs, carpets and rugs Village town also called carpet shop. 
 Manufacture of carpets nomads … 

… Carpet village and … 
Carpet City … and shop. 

  The carpets of various types differ in many aspects. What is considered an error on a carpet shop, as Abrash example, an attribute is quite common nomadic carpets. In contrast, nomadic rugs and rustic living expression that is not found on the carpet shop.
Manufacture of hand-knotted carpets
Despite the developments that have taken place in almost all areas, the hand-knotted carpets are still produced today just as it was centuries ago. The art of forging a belt has passed through many generations and it requires a large number of different stages, each of which is in itself an art that we will develop further in the following pages
Production today
Today, a carpet weaving takes place, with some nuances, the same way that centuries ago … 
 

Examples of Indian carpets European design:
 Tibetan carpets Tibetan carpets today are made in large part to Nepal.
The name “Tibetan carpets” means today, on the one hand, the hand-knotted rugs from Tibet, the highest region of the world, but also, secondly, the carpets woven by Tibetan exiles who in Nepal. 
  In Tibet, there is also a tribe of nomads who move between different places of pasture with their sheep and goats, and that the sale of wool from animals is an important source of income. 
From the perspective of reasons, there is a great similarity with Chinese motifs. These carpets are often small because they are primarily intended for use in homes and temples. 
 Transport in high-altitude mountains. Buddhist prayer wheels. 
The Jokhang Temple, Lhasa Current production of carpets from Nepal is composed largely of carpet and Western modern designs in pastel colors. These carpets are labeled “Tibetans” to distinguish them from the rest of the country’s production. Carpets are also manufactured in large state factories, including that of Lhasa, among others, which exports via Beijing under the name “Lhasa”. 
Watch a film clip about Nepal, click on the Play button! Examples of carpets from Nepal to European design:
  
 Turkish carpets (carpets Anatolia) 
  Some places that have great importance in the production of carpets of the country.
Turkish carpets, also known as Anatolian carpets are from Turkey. The oldest carpet found in Turkey dating from the thirteenth century and were discovered in the city of Konya, which was long the center of carpet production in Turkey. The carpets made in the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries are quite similar to Persian rugs.
 
Turkish carpets are heavily influenced by the Greeks, who once dominated the production of carpets. These carpets, which are thicker, are made of wool, cotton and silk, and they are still tied at the Turkish knot, also called a node or Ghiordes turkbaff. The reasons commonly used are based on the prayer niche with more geometric shapes. Neither men nor animals represented there because the Koran forbids it
Cappadocia in central Turkey. 
The Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. Waterfall in Manavgat, in the district of Alanya. The most common carpet today are produced on a smaller scale in Ankara and in the region of Konya. They are marketed, among others, under the names Jerevan, Kayser, MEKRA, Hereke, Ghiordes, Kula, Oushak, and Yahyali Yagcibedir.
 
Anatolia (Anadolu in Turkish, Greek anatoli anatol or “rising sun” or “East”, compared to the East to the extreme severity, possibly from Turkish to ana “mother” and dolu “full”) is another name of Asia Minor, the peninsula of southwestern Asia that brings together most of Turkey. The landscape is dominated by high mountain ranges. In contemporary Anatolia, the largest city is Ankara, the capital of Turkey, which lies at the center of the peninsula.  Chinese Carpets 
   
The main centers of carpet production in China.
In China there is a long tradition of carpet and the first of them, which were probably the objects of exchange, have been around for over 2000 years when they were used at the imperial court. However, the art of weaving rugs has arrived for the first time in China between the fifteenth and seventeenth century.
 
The motives of the old Chinese rugs were often drawn from the painters on porcelain and silk. In some cases, the grounds were also made of ancient religious symbols, including representations of dragons were very prevalent. The symbols found on the carpets often have a Taoist or Buddhist origin.
 
On the old carpet, it is common to see fine son of cotton string, which combined with a thick pile yarn, are big knots and mats that are at once very thick, soft and supple. Antique rugs were made, among others, in the provinces of Gansu, Ningxia, Suiyuan and Inner Mongolia in the city of Baotou (Baotou carpet, often modest size, are distinguished primarily by their landscape designs and symbols with the dominant color blue in various shades). Later were added the provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Shandong. 
 The famous Great Wall of China. 
The cultivation of rice - a usual scene in China. 
An example of the beauty of Chinese architect
On carpets manufactured more recently, there are a multitude of different patterns, including flowers and even some typical patterns of Persia. The modern rugs are woven with wool spun the machine that is dyed with chrome dyes and therefore more resistant to sunlight and washing. Much of the recent carpets are thick and compact because of the use of a double chain (the son are two layers), and we use the technique of node Senneh (unbalanced). Today, this new production takes place mainly in the cities of Beijing and Tianjin and surrounding areas.
 
Chinese rugs are now sold under the names, among others, Ningxia, Tianjin (Tientsin), Baotou and Beijing.

Baluch Rugs
Baluchistan, a region spanning the eastern Iran and western Pakistan.
Baluch Rugs (also called carpet or Baluchi Baluchis) are hand-knotted rugs were originally made by the Baluchi nomads near the border between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. There are also nomads on a smaller scale in Bahrain and the Indian province of Punjab. Most of them, a little over 70%, lives in Pakistan and is divided into two groups: Sulayman and Makranis.
 
The carpets are sold in part in the city of Mashad, Iran, they are then called Mashad Baluchi rugs, and partly in the city of Herat, Afghanistan, Herat are the Baluchis.
 
Most often, these rugs are small and include grounds alive. The prayer rugs are common and the dominant colors are red, brown and dark blue. The chain is made of wool or a blend of wool and goat hair, the carpets have a more recent string of cotton.
 
Examples of Baluch rugs:
Beluch Kelim 173×70
   Beluch 182×97
   Beluch 182×100
   Beluch 190×100
Turkomans
Areas that are manufactured Turkomans.
The name “Turkmen carpet” refers to rugs produced in various regions, including Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, the East Turkestan, Afghanistan and Baluchistan.
 
Turkoman rugs have, among others, the carpets bashir, Salor, Tekke, and tjaudor Yomuts, which are all examples of rugs that were called until a few decades ago, Bouchara carpet (or Bukhara).
 
The Turkmen district best known for the manufacture of carpets are those of Ashkhabad, Bakharden, Gueok-Tepe, Kizil Arvat and Merv, just to name a few. It is customary that the Afghan rugs, Baluchi as well as those of East Turkestan are also sometimes considered Turkmen carpets.
The “Arch of Neutrality,” in Turkmenistan.
The entrance to the mosque in Herat, Afghanistan.
Close-up view of Registan, Uzbekistan.
What distinguishes Turkomans is, among other things, that their chain is almost always made of wool, their motives such as “Göl” are repetitive, and they often have large borders on the widths that we not found on the lengths. Red, playing the whole range from purple to brown is a dominant color.
 
Tekke-Bochara, Ersari, Tschoval, Beshir and Jolam-Bocharaband are all examples of Turkmen carpets.
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A carpet Jamut Turkmenistan.
Caucasian Carpets
Growing area rugs Caucasian.
When we speak of Caucasian rugs, we refer to carpets originating in areas south, east and north of the Caucasus mountain range.
 
The carpet prior to 1925 are divided into five groups: Kazakh carpets, Karabakh, sjirvan, Kuba and Daghestan. The carpet in the Karabakh region often have reasons, and recall the sweet Persian rugs. Besides this classification, there are also mats Ganja, Silesia and Verni.
 
These rugs are distinguished by their geometric patterns varied and imaginative. There are sometimes as stylized figures of animals or designs.
 
Examples of Caucasian rugs:
Kazak 157×108
   Kazak 297×241
   Kazak 187×122
   Kazak 288×216
Mosque in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Caucasian rugs are made from the oldest son of handspun wool, both their chain, they frame their velvet. The natural colors are as bright as resistant. With a high quality wool and node Turkish carpets are durable and have good reputation.
 
On newer carpet, that is to say, manufactured after 1925, the chain is made of cotton, synthetic colors and lose their force, and the grounds are fewer and more simplified. These pads offer an honorable resistance, but they are less interesting from an artistic perspective. Today, the most common names for these carpets are: Kazakhstan, Derbent, Mikrach, Gendje (or Ganja), Yerevan (Erivan or) Sjirvan and Akhty.
 
Now there is a production of new carpet Pakistan inspired also by the patterns of Caucasian rugs hued plants and natural. These rugs are durable and have a relatively short stack and are sold under the name “Kazak”
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Reproduction of Kazakh carpets.
Kazak rugs fit perfectly with modern environments.
The velvet stonewash rugs Kazakh gives them a particular luster.
Indian Carpets
Today, India is a leading provider of hand knotted carpets.
It is believed that the art of carpet weaving was introduced in India by Akbar the Great Mughal (1556-1605) who brought in his own palace of Persian weavers and talented artists specialize designs for carpets.
 
Throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were manufactured in India rugs of great beauty from sheep wool and silk using the finest Persian knot. However, from the nineteenth century and into the 1940s, the quality lowered considerably, with the exception of a small production in the cities of Srinagar, Amritsar and Agra.
 
After India’s independence in 1947, commercial manufacturing experienced a new beginning. While most carpet weavers fled to Pakistan, production was quickly back on foot through the efforts devoted to training young men and women.
 
Examples of Indian carpets:
Indo Gabbeh 403×82
   Indo Gabbeh 399×80
   Indo Gabbeh 399×79
   Gabbeh Indo 396×299
Today the country is a large exporter of hand knotted carpets cheap and of variable quality, and working, among others, many with classical motifs, Persian and Chinese.
The famous Taj Mahal.
Tea cultivation in India.
Palace in Hyderabad.
To determine the origin of an Indian rug is often used apposition: Mir Indian and Pakistan-Bochara Indian Gabbeh, which differs significantly from a Gabbeh Persian example.
Other carpets made in India are marketed under other names, such as Amritsar, Bhadohi, Jaipur, Kashmir, Srinagar or Mirzapur. 
  

Hamadan Carpets
A durable beautiful carpet can be installed anywhere, here Hamadan.
Hamadan is a city located in western Iran, 300 km west of Tehran. This is one of the oldest cities in the world and is under the name of Ecbatana it is referred to in the book of Esther from the Bible. The city is the center of trade in carpets that are produced in hundreds of cities and villages. The best of them are marketed under their own name, as Nahavand Tuiserkan, Malayer or Hosseinabad. Carpets simplest region are grouped under the generic name Hamadan.
 
They are easy to recognize by their motives and their typical size. The patterns are very variable and there are also many carpet medallions that carpet patterns. Among various reasons, the Herati which is the most common.
 
The colors are dominated by various shades of indigo blue and madder red. The ancient Hamadan carpet can be very attractive items. In the city of Hamadan itself, once made rugs are much better. These carpets were called Shahr-baff (= Shahr city, baff = node) and they reminded, by their structure, Bidjar, but they have become rare on the market today.
 
The carpets are made of solid wire, thick, shiny, often dyed with natural dyes and hand spun. This wire provides a resilient surface and a beautiful palette of colors. They have in common is now woven with the son of cotton warp and weft between each row of knots. Patterns are mostly geometric, but there are also floral patterns. The material and design can be highly variable quality.
 
Antique rugs (pre 1920) are often tied to a string of wool, unlike chains today are cotton. Carpets latest (after 1960) are often made of synthetic colors and wool of lower quality than the old carpets. In terms of size, are dozar and zaronim (respectively 200 x 120 cm approx. And 150 x 100 cm approx.) Are the most common.
 
In general, we can say that the carpet Hamadan rugs are good for general use. We can cite as examples of Hamadan carpets rugs Bortchalou, Enjil, Hosseinabad, Lilihan, Khamse, Zanjan and Malayer. The carpets are also sometimes sold under the name Hamedan.
These carpets are made in some villages of 500-600 a wide area around the city of Hamadan in northwest Iran. Each village or hamlet has its unique characteristic. Carpets are usually very colorful wool is of good quality. In short, they are a value-priced and make good carpets in common use.
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 Afghan rugs
The main places of manufacture of carpets in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is located in southern Asia and is surrounded by Iran and Turkmenistan to the west, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, Pakistan and China in the East. Kabul is the capital and much of the country is covered by mountains. Only one tenth of the land area is fertile, but this surface is also one of the most fertile in the world. The people, the Afghans, is composed mostly of various ethnic groups (tribes) including the Pashtuns is most important. It may be mentioned as other major ethnic Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks.
 
For many years the country was characterized by internal conflicts that have involved the intervention of Western powers. Since 2004, when a new constitution was adopted, the country is headed by a president.
 
Khal Mohammadi Afghan and Aqche are two types of Afghan carpets the most popular. The Khal Mohammadi rugs are hand-knotted by the Turkmen of northern Afghanistan. Their main colors are shades of dark red in its various shades. The reasons are the Gol (a pattern that resembles elephant foot) and octagonal (eight-sided figure), often accompanied by stylized flowers in shades of dark blue, tan and beige. Afghan rugs Aqche are hand-knotted by the Turkmen central and northern Afghanistan.
 
Velvet, warp and weft threads are wool, goat hair, and in some cases, horse hair.
Technical data Khal Mohammadi:
Pile: wool
Warp: Wool
Knot: symmetrical
Knotting density: 150 000 - 300 000 knots per square meter
Sizes: 100×150 250×350 cm in, 80×120 cm 80×400 in
 
Khal Mohammadi carpet Examples:
Afghan Khal Mohammadi 582×406
   Afghan Khal Mohammadi 384×292
   Afghan Khal Mohammadi 385×300
   Afghan Khal Mohammadi 370×250
Pakistani Carpets
Key areas of carpet production in Pakistan.
The carpet industry in Pakistan has started the same way as in India, and when the country separated from India, a majority of carpet weavers, who were Muslims, migrated from the Pakistani side. Most of them found work in Lahore and Karachi at the time the production of carpets just received government support in the form of import quality son.
 
Today, Pakistani carpets are made from Australian wool, which, moreover, received a treatment that gives it extra shine, making these rugs very similar to silk carpets. Their high density of knotting carpets offers these highly durable for a price lower than their Persian counterparts.
 
Pakistani carpets, which are now mass-produced (in Lahore, Karachi and Rawalpindi) are divided between mori carpets and Persian rugs, where 90% of carpet mori have grounds reminiscent Bochara, and other reasons Turkmen . Ziegler Carpets, which are manufactured in Pakistan, have reasonable copied the ancient traditions of the region Arak in Persia.
Examples of Pakistani carpets hand-knotted:
 Pakistan 2ply 9 / 22 850×84
   Pakistan 2ply 9 / 14 600×78
   Pakistan 2ply Super 9 / 16 577×382
   Pakistan 2ply 9 / 14 561×80
The carpets are woven in wool, often imported, quality varies, the warp and weft is cotton. Mori Rugs are woven on a simple string, while others are on double chain. Red is the dominant color on the carpet, but there are also other colors. Moreover, these carpets are still undergoing treatment often to increase their brilliance.
Building in Bahawalpur.
Badshahi Mosque in Lahore.
Museum in Lahore, Pakistan.
Today, Pakistani carpets are marketed under the names Bahawalpur, Hyderabad, Karachi, Multan, Peshawar and Quetta to mention a few.