DESIGN ISTANBUL TASARIM İSTANBUL
ANATOLIAN RUGS
First half 19. century West Anatolia rug. Gülgönen collection.
19.yy ilk yarısı, Batı Anadolu kilimi Gülgönen koleksiyonu.
ANADOLU KİLİMLERİ
A
natolian Rugs are the textile
objects that Turks have created
in visual arts.The value of Turkish
Rugs vowen by different Turkish
tribes have not been realized until
modern times.Even it has been
known that Turks have only minatur
in terms of visual arts through
history.Rugs vowen by yörüks and
Türkmens called as “Bisat” and “Berced” in Ottoman times.They used to
be underestimated and categorized
as simple public artisan objects.
These rugs were simply woven
and they are called Cicim, Sumak,
Zili.Traditionally they are used as
pillows,belts,bags. You can not find
the name of the person who has
woven the rug but one can understand the identity of the person,his/
her family/time tracing the style and
colors on the rug. This art has a
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deep roots in Anatolia and the difficulty and effort for to create them
has become the subjects of some
proverbs and idioms throughout
the history like: “Weaving carpet is
the work of a master,weaving rug is
the work of a crazy,weaving scarf is
the work of a wisdom”In rural areas
, rugs woven by young women
before marriage were not be shown
before her engagement , just before
Western Cultures started to understand the real values of Turkish Rugs
and evaluated them in the approach
of Modern Art.Different from the
Goblen-Tapestry of the west which
can be determined asa the equivalent objects to Turkish Rugs,figures
on Turkish Rugs are stylized with
geometrical symbolic motives the
marriage ceremony these works of
her used to be exhibited .