{"title":"Artizan Sayfası — Kaynak","description":"\u003cp\u003eArtizan koleksiyon sayfasının fihristini besleyen otomatik koleksiyon. 250.000 TL ve üzeri, stokta olan eserler; fiyata göre azalan sırada.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"anadolu-desenli-el-dokuma-kirmizi-ipek-klasik-hali","title":"Navy Anatolian Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 82 × 119 cm (2'8\" × 3'11\") this is a rug for one specific place — in front of a chair, at a bedside, on a wall: Navy Anatolian Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug, knotted in Türkiye entirely in silk, with classical Anatolian drawing worked in red, navy and cream. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk is what makes a size this small worth doing. A wool rug of the same dimensions would read as a mat, whereas silk holds detail at a scale wool cannot, so the motifs stay legible from standing height and the piece behaves more like a framed object than a floor covering. Navy carries the field. Red and cream do the drawing. Because silk reflects along the direction of the pile, the rug is bright from one end and dark from the other, and turning it around changes the color of that corner of the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was knotted by hand in Türkiye, in silk throughout, pile and detail both, which has become uncommon at any size. The finer the yarn, the more knots go into a square decimeter and the longer the weaving takes; that is the whole economics of a silk rug and the reason so few are made now. Direct sun will take the color out of it over years. Spilled liquid needs lifting immediately rather than eventually. Cleaning is specialist work. One piece, and there is not a second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye from silk alone, with no wool or cotton in the pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Anatolian drawing in red, navy and cream on a navy field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSmall at 82 × 119 cm, sized for a chair, a bedside or a wall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSilk reflects along the lay of the pile, so the rug is light from one end and dark from the other.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSunlight is what will damage it; place it away from an unshaded window.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLift spills at once; cleaning is specialist work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece. There is no second one behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost rugs are bought for a room; this one is bought for a square meter of it, and will outlast the room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Navy blue \/ 82 X 119","offer_id":44252113764585,"sku":"HADIPE000001.01","price":250000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluDesenliElDokumaKirmiziIpekKlasikHali_2.jpg?v=1706092127"},{"product_id":"anadolu-desenli-el-dokuma-turkuaz-ipek-hali","title":"Turquoise Anatolian Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTurquoise and midnight blue run into each other through the center and the borders answer them in yellow and a warm red-brown: Turquoise Anatolian Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug — 84 × 125 cm (2'9\" × 4'1\"), knotted in Türkiye in silk alone, symmetrical in its drawing, with fringes at both ends. A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTurquoise is a difficult color in a rug and it works here because it is never left alone. The midnight blue keeps it from going sweet, the yellow in the border keeps it from going cold, and the red-brown grounds the whole arrangement. Silk does the rest. The pile catches light along its lay, so the turquoise comes up bright from one direction and goes nearly gray from the other, and the pattern appears to lift and settle again as you walk past it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was knotted by hand in Türkiye from silk yarn only, which is what allows drawing this fine at a size this small. Rugs of this kind are often laid on a table or hung on a wall rather than walked on, and that is a reasonable thing to do with this one. Keep it away from direct sun or the color will go. Cleaning is a job for someone who handles silk, not a domestic one. It is a single piece, and it was not made as part of a run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKnotted by hand in Türkiye from silk yarn and nothing else.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTurquoise and midnight blue at the center; yellow and red-brown in the borders.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSymmetrical drawing, with fringes finished at both ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e84 × 125 cm — table, wall or a small stretch of floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBright from one direction and gray from the other, along the lay of the pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDirect sunlight will fade it; keep it out of a south window.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning by someone who handles silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHang it and it stops being a rug; walk on it and it stops being a picture. Either use is defensible.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 84 X 125","offer_id":44252113895657,"sku":"HADIPE000003.01","price":265000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluDesenliElDokumaTurkuazIpekHali_2.jpg?v=1706092212"},{"product_id":"saf-ipek-anadolu-el-dokuma-klasik-hali","title":"Burgundy Anatolian Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo weavers, and between a year and a half and two years of work: Burgundy Anatolian Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug — 202 × 284 cm (6'8\" × 9'4\") in Bursa silk throughout, a burgundy ground carrying gold and navy Anatolian drawing, with an open center and a deep classical border. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe center is left empty on purpose, which is why a low table can stand on it without ruining the composition; the drawing is concentrated in the border and the corners, and the field exists to be crossed. Gold gives the pattern its light and navy gives it its edges, and against the burgundy the two behave differently at different hours — the gold flattens in daylight and comes up under lamps. Silver-toned furniture suits it, and so does light oak or maple flooring, which stops the burgundy from sinking into a dark floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe silk comes from Bursa, the Ottoman silk city, where mulberry has been grown and silk reeled for centuries. Very little Bursa silk now goes into rugs at all, so pieces like this are bought as collected objects at least as much as floor covering. The weave is a 6 × 6 knot density, which is what allows the fine detail in the border to be drawn rather than suggested, and which is also why two people needed close to two years to finish it. It is fragile by construction: lift spills at once, keep it out of direct sun, be careful with it around animals, vacuum on the lowest setting, and have it washed away from the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Bursa, Türkiye, from pure Bursa silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground with gold and navy Anatolian drawing, and an open center.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e6 × 6 knot density, tied by two weavers over a year and a half to two years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e202 × 284 cm, with the pattern held in the border and the corners.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits silver-toned furniture and pale maple or oak flooring.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDelicate: low-suction vacuuming, no direct sun, care around pets.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is Bursa silk?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBursa, in northwest Türkiye, was the center of Ottoman silk production and reels silk still. Very little of it now goes into rug weaving, so a rug knotted entirely from Bursa silk is bought as a collected object at least as much as a floor covering.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy did this rug take two years to weave?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt follows from the knot density. At 6 × 6 the number of individually tied knots in a piece of 202 × 284 cm is very large, and two weavers working together needed between a year and a half and two years to complete it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the sort of rug that gets moved from house to house rather than replaced, and the reason to buy the open center is that a table will not spoil it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is Bursa silk?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Bursa, in northwest Türkiye, was the center of Ottoman silk production and reels silk still. 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Burgundy Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool and Silk Rug, Harem Series, made in Türkiye from Erzurum wool and Bursa silk, in sizes from 131 × 186 cm (4'4\" × 6'1\") to 241 × 323 cm (7'11\" × 10'7\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing comes from Uşak in the Turkish west — Oushak in English — and it goes back to that town's fourteenth- and fifteenth-century patterns, redrawn at a modern scale rather than reproduced. Burgundy carries them. It is a color that behaves completely differently by daylight and by lamp: flat and almost brown at noon, deep and lit from within after dark, and the silk in the pile is what does the second half of that. Rugs from this series have been laid in government buildings for years, which tells you more about how they wear than any description of them will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo materials are worth naming separately. The wool is taken from Erzurum fleece, which is oily and therefore both strong and bright; the silk is real Bursa silk, and there is not much of it left in commercial weaving. They are knotted together with the double knot — the symmetrical Turkish knot, worked around two warps — which is slower than the alternative and holds the pattern edges sharper. Washing goes to a specialist and nowhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye by Çınhar Halı, to designs made for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece wool blended with genuine Bursa silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak motifs of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, redrawn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKnotted with the double knot, the symmetrical knot used across Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground that changes character between daylight and lamplight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSizes from 131 × 186 cm (4'4\" × 6'1\") to 241 × 323 cm (7'11\" × 10'7\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAward-winning designs in international rug design competition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is the double knot?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe double knot, also called the symmetrical or Gördes knot, wraps the pile yarn around two warp threads instead of one. It takes longer to tie and produces a firmer pile with cleaner pattern edges, and it is the knot used across most of Anatolia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy does Bursa silk matter?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBursa has been the center of Turkish silk production since the Ottoman period, and very little of it now goes into rugs. Silk from there is used here for the highlights in the pattern, where it reflects light the wool cannot and gives the burgundy its depth after dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a rug bought once, and the reason to buy the larger size is that the pattern was drawn for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the double knot?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The double knot, also called the symmetrical or Gördes knot, wraps the pile yarn around two warp threads instead of one. 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Wool, cotton and bamboo viscose in the surface, a cotton foundation underneath, and a knot count fine enough to hold the small scrollwork. The largest piece measures 265 × 355 cm (8'8\" × 11'8\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream holds the ground and the purple does the drawing — palmettes, hooked leaves and a scrolling vine that runs the border without quite repeating. What separates it from a printed version is the relief: after the rug comes off the loom a weaver cuts around every motif with hand shears, dropping the ground a few millimeters so the pattern stands up off it. Run a hand across the surface and you can feel where the outline is before you can see it. Bamboo viscose in the motifs takes light the way silk does, which is why the purple reads violet from one end of a room and near-plum from the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnotted by hand in India. The shine that makes the pattern legible also picks up footmarks, and on a cream ground they will show until the pile is brushed back the other way — worth knowing before this goes in a hallway. Seven sizes exist, from a small mat up to the salon piece, and two of them are proper corridor runners rather than rugs cut short.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does carving mean on a hand-knotted rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarving is a finishing operation. After weaving, a worker trims the pile along the outline of each motif with hand shears, so the ground sits lower than the pattern. The result is a relief you can feel with a palm, and it is done piece by piece rather than by machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDoes an Oushak-pattern rug have to come from Oushak?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo. Oushak names both a town in western Anatolia and the family of large-scale floral and medallion drawings that came out of it from the sixteenth century onward. This rug carries the Oushak pattern and was hand-knotted in India, which the description states rather than hides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, with the pattern carved by hand after weaving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool, cotton, bamboo viscose and viscose in the surface, on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with purple palmettes, hooked leaves and a scrolling vine border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDense knotting, which is what lets the small scrollwork stay readable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSeven sizes from 90 × 150 cm to 265 × 355 cm, including two long runners.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe bamboo viscose shines, and shine shows footmarks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e\n{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What does carving mean on a hand-knotted rug?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Carving is a finishing operation. 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Hand-knotted in India in purple, in the Oushak family of large floral drawings, over a surface of wool, cotton and bamboo viscose. Six sizes are made, up to 255 × 380 cm (8'4\" × 12'6\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePurple is a hard color to keep from going flat, and the carving is what stops it: the trimmed outline throws a shadow of its own, so the field reads as two purples rather than one, and the depth changes as you walk past. Dense knotting is the second half of the answer, because the Oushak drawing depends on thin scroll lines that a loose weave simply loses. Against walnut, brass and unbleached linen it looks its age; in a white room it is the whole argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnotted in India, on a cotton foundation, with bamboo viscose worked through the pattern for its shine. Two of the six sizes are long runners, one of them 85 × 400 cm (2'9\" × 13'1\"), cut for corridors rather than shortened from a rug. The relief has a cost worth naming: a carved surface is not flat, and a chair leg dragged across it finds the low channels. Lift furniture rather than sliding it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India; each motif carved around by hand with shears.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool, cotton and bamboo viscose in the surface, on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePurple Oushak drawing, held by a dense knot count that keeps the thin scrollwork legible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe carved outline gives the field a shadow, so the purple shifts as you cross the room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSix sizes, including 80 × 390 cm and 85 × 400 cm corridor runners.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDo not drag furniture over a carved surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing is a job for a specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe carved channels are where the wear will show first, and in thirty years they will be the reason anyone can date it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis rug belongs to the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/safir-series-rugs\"\u003eSafir Series\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Purple \/ 90 X 150","offer_id":45811516473577,"sku":"EKOSAP000023.01","price":40500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Purple \/ 80 X 290","offer_id":46029648593129,"sku":"EKOSAP000023.04","price":70000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Purple \/ 80 X 390","offer_id":46029648625897,"sku":"EKOSAP000023.06","price":94000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Purple \/ 85 X 400","offer_id":46029648658665,"sku":"EKOSAP000023.07","price":102000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Purple \/ 230 X 330","offer_id":46029648691433,"sku":"EKOSAP000023.10","price":230000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Purple \/ 255 X 380","offer_id":46029648724201,"sku":"EKOSAP000023.11","price":295000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/SafirSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliOymaliKremYunHali_1.webp?v=1767540505"},{"product_id":"ottoman-serisi-usak-desenli-krem-yun-hali","title":"Cream Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Ottoman Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErzurum first-shearing oily fleece, blended with silk reeled from the cocoon, tied with the genuine Turkish knot: that is the whole specification of this Ottoman series rug, handwoven on looms in Diyarbakır and Erzurum. Cream and golden yellow through the ground, with real Oushak motifs given a contemporary reading. Production of the series has ended.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Turkish knot — the Gördes knot — wraps symmetrically around two warps, which is the construction Anatolian weavers have used for centuries and the reason a pile of this density stands upright rather than leaning. Cream and gold keep the rug bright, and the Oushak drawing supplies the structure: medallion logic, wide intervals, a border that closes without crowding. Set on dark stone or dark boards, that contrast is what the piece is for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst-shearing fleece is the wool taken from a young animal, and it is brighter, softer and stronger than later clips from the same flock; blending it with silk from the cocoon gives a pile that holds a sheen without becoming slippery. The series is finished — no more are being made — so what exists is what there is. That also means a damaged one cannot be matched. Keep it out of a direct window, and leave washing to a professional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven on looms in Diyarbakır and Erzurum, Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum first-shearing oily fleece blended with pure silk from the cocoon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTied with the genuine Turkish knot, also called the Gördes knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream and golden yellow, with authentic Oushak motifs read for a modern room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eStrongest against dark stone or dark wood floors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWorks with walnut furniture and with blue and green upholstery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Ottoman series is out of production and cannot be matched.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing; keep it out of direct sun.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is the Turkish knot?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso called the Gördes knot, it wraps symmetrically around two neighboring warp threads before the weft passes over them. It is the knot Anatolian weavers have used for centuries, and it is why a dense pile made this way stands upright rather than leaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCan a second rug from the Ottoman series be ordered to match?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo. The series has finished production, so what exists is what remains. A pair cannot be assembled after the fact, and a damaged piece cannot be replaced with an identical one from the same run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is the Turkish knot?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Also called the Gördes knot, it wraps symmetrically around two neighboring warp threads before the weft passes over them. 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Cream Floral Handwoven Wool Rug, Emirgan Series — made in the Turkish Aegean in wool and viscose, with flowers gathered toward the edges in purple, cream and green and a plain center left for whatever furniture ends up standing on it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is an old decision and a practical one: a coffee table on a busy field cancels both. Here the drawing crowds the border and thins as it travels inward, so a table sits in open ground and the pattern frames it. The palette runs to three colors and stops there — cream carrying purple and green rather than the reverse — and it lifts a dark parquet floor instead of adding weight to one. Against gilded classical furniture it behaves like a period piece; against walnut with a modern line it turns into something else entirely. With very dark furniture it does neither, and Halıcızade advises against that pairing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeavers in the Aegean, the region that has carried Turkish weaving longest, worked it by hand in wool and viscose: viscose in the warp, wool and viscose together in the weft. That combination gives the surface both its softness and its faint shine, and it also makes the rug more delicate than one built over a cotton foundation. The fringes are plaited flat like ribbon, a finish rather than a flourish — it keeps the ends from unraveling into a fray. It needs a professional wash, and it needs one rarely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in the Turkish Aegean.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eViscose warp, wool and viscose weft — soft surface, low sheen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePurple, cream and green, with the flowers concentrated toward the border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe center is left plain so furniture standing on it stays legible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFringes plaited flat, like ribbon, at both ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMore delicate than a cotton-foundation rug; it wants care in cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only. A single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMove the table and you get the rug back; that is the whole design, and somebody took a long time arriving at it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 238 X 331","offer_id":44252120908009,"sku":"KIREMI000044.01","price":360000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EmirganSerisiElDokumaCicekDesenliKlasikYunHali_4.jpg?v=1709632728"},{"product_id":"emirgan-serisi-el-dokuma-cicek-desenli-klasik-hali","title":"Cream Oushak-Floral Handwoven Rug, Emirgan Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo drawings meet on this rug: the large open flowers of Oushak, the weaving region of western Anatolia, and the plaited mat pattern Anatolian weavers call \u003cem\u003ehasır\u003c\/em\u003e. Cream Oushak-Floral Handwoven Rug, Emirgan Series — cream ground, purple and green through the field, pink and blue in the flower heads. Made on the Aegean side of Anatolia. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak drawings are open and generous; hasır is a tight interlace copied from woven reed matting. Setting one inside the other is what gives the field its changes of scale — a flower head opens across four or five inches, and the ground behind it is worked in a plait small enough that you have to bend down to find it. Pink and blue appear only in the petals, and in a north-facing room they are the two colors still legible after everything else has gone gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMonths at the loom, at a knot density high enough to hold that interlace together. The warp is viscose and the weft is wool and viscose; viscose is a plant fiber that takes light much as silk does, which is why a cream rug in this construction has a sheen on it. Rugs like this were once standard in the reception rooms of senior Turkish institutions and are barely made now — the weavers who can do it are older than the trade. The fringes are plaited into flat ribbons. Take it to a professional washer and to nobody else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWorked by hand on the Aegean side of Anatolia, over months.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak floral drawing set against an Anatolian hasır plait.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with purple and green; pink and blue confined to the flower heads.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eViscose warp with a wool-and-viscose weft, worked at high knot density.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eViscose carries the shine; wool carries the softness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat plaited fringes at both ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing. This construction is rarely woven in Türkiye now.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes it worth having is not the flowers but the plait behind them, and almost nobody is still weaving that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 234 X 320","offer_id":44252121268457,"sku":"KIREMI000091.01","price":340000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EmirganSerisiElDokumaCicekDesenliKlasikHali_1.jpg?v=1709633205"},{"product_id":"emirgan-serisi-el-dokuma-cicek-desenli-viskon-krem-hali","title":"Cream Floral Handwoven Viscose and Wool Rug, Emirgan Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eViscose in the warp, wool in the weft: that division is what makes Cream Floral Handwoven Viscose and Wool Rug, Emirgan Series look silky and feel soft at the same time. Purple, cream and green flowers over a pale cream ground, made by experienced hands in western Türkiye, on the Aegean. There is only this one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo fibers here, doing two separate jobs. Viscose is plant-based, with a bright smooth filament, and running it through the warp puts a low light behind every knot; wool in the weft supplies the give underfoot. The result is a pale rug with more depth in it than a pale rug usually has — the purples read almost inky by lamplight and go soft and dusty by day. Against light-colored furniture the flowers become the strongest color in the room; over a dark parquet floor the whole surface lifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Aegean is where the finest Turkish rugs were made and where a diminishing number of weavers still make them. The fringes on this one are braided closely by hand at both ends, slower than machine binding and the reason the ends look finished rather than cut. What follows from the viscose is a rug that will not tolerate wet cleaning: dust it with a vacuum and leave water to the professionals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven by Aegean weavers in western Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eViscose warp for the sheen, wool weft for the softness.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePurple, cream and green flowers over a pale cream ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFringes braided by hand at both ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe purples deepen by lamplight and soften in daylight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads best over dark flooring and beside pale furniture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo wet cleaning at home; specialist washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFewer weavers work this way every year, and each rug that comes off an Aegean loom is a little further from being replaceable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 219 X 290","offer_id":44252121104617,"sku":"KIREMI000058.01","price":290000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EmirganSerisiElDokumaCicekDesenliViskonKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709632870"},{"product_id":"emirgan-serisi-el-dokuma-cicek-desenli-krem-hali","title":"Cream Classic Floral Handwoven Wool Rug, Emirgan Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery knot in it is tied twice. Cream Classic Floral Handwoven Wool Rug, Emirgan Series is worked with the double knot — the symmetrical Anatolian tie that closes across two warp threads — on a cream field carrying purple flowers and green foliage. Made on Türkiye's Aegean side, in wool and viscose. A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA double knot takes longer and returns a firmer surface with a cleaner drawn edge, which is why the flowers here have outlines instead of blurs. The palette is classical: cream doing almost all of the ground, purple appearing only in the blossoms, green threading between them. On a dark parquet floor the pale ground jumps and the drawing sharpens; against white walls and pastel yellows it settles back into the room. It suits heavy furniture and light furniture equally, and it suits curtains that already carry a pattern — classical, damask, or plain tulle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe warp is viscose alone and the weft mixes wool with viscose. Viscose comes from plant cellulose and has the shine of silk without being silk; it is the fiber doing the visual work here, while wool does the tactile work. The fringes are plaited into flat ribbons at both ends. The absence of a cotton foundation makes this a finer rug and a more fragile one, and it should be cleaned by a professional rather than treated at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven on Türkiye's Aegean side with the symmetrical double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eViscose warp; weft of wool and viscose together.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground, purple blossoms, green foliage running between them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFringes plaited flat into ribbons at both ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits salons, entrance halls and bedrooms; strongest over dark flooring.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFiner and more fragile than a rug built over cotton.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional care recommended. One of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe double knot is why it will still be drawing a clean line long after a single-knotted rug of the same age has gone soft at the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 242 X 324","offer_id":44158184653033,"sku":"KIREMI000080.01","price":360000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EmirganSerisiElDokumaCicekDesenliKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709632965"},{"product_id":"emirgan-serisi-el-dokuma-cicekli-krem-hali","title":"Cream Flowered Handwoven Wool Rug, Emirgan Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Aegean coast of Türkiye keeps a craft that has nearly stopped: Cream Flowered Handwoven Wool Rug, Emirgan Series came off a loom there, worked in wool and viscose at a high knot count, with flowers spread over a cream ground in purple and green and small notes of pink and blue. One piece, and the technique behind it is thinning out.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIts drawing borrows from Oushak and from the wider Anatolian repertoire, but the flowers have been enlarged and the ground opened up so the rug reads the way modern furniture wants it to. Cream is the ground, purple and green do the structure, and pink and blue arrive in single blossoms — the two colors that stop the palette from collapsing into a monochrome. Laid over dark boards, the contrast is what you notice first. Beside a modern sofa with a straight line, it does not look borrowed from another century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool gives it the softness, viscose gives it the silk-like light across the surface, and the density of the knotting is what allows a flower to be drawn rather than approximated. The fringes are arranged and secured by hand so the ends sit straight. It is a fine rug in the literal sense — thin, closely worked, easier to damage than a coarse one — which is why every recommendation the house makes about it ends at a professional washer. It is a workshop wash, not a weekend job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven on the Aegean coast of Türkiye, at high knot density.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool for the hand, viscose for the light on the surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground, purple and green structure, pink and blue in single blossoms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak and Anatolian drawing, enlarged and opened out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eStrongest laid over dark wood; sits well with modern furniture and patterned curtains.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFringes set and secured by hand at both ends.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDelicate construction — professional cleaning, always.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVery few looms in Türkiye are still set up to do this, and the number does not go back up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 213X306","offer_id":45752283398377,"sku":"KIREMI000090.01","price":295000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EmirganSerisiElDokumaCicekliKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709633080"},{"product_id":"emirgan-serisi-el-dokuma-mor-cicek-desenli-klasik-hali","title":"Cream Purple-Flower Handwoven Classic Rug, Emirgan Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCream Purple-Flower Handwoven Classic Rug, Emirgan Series: a cream ground worked in pastel transitions, with purple flower heads and green foliage running through it and a simply drawn middle that lets whatever stands on the rug be seen. Made by hand in the Aegean, at the western edge of Anatolia, in wool and viscose. There is one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMonths go into a rug like this, which is a statement about labor rather than about quality, and the labor shows in the transitions — no color arrives suddenly, and none of the greens is the same green twice. The composition was built for large furniture. A heavy carved table or a wide sofa looks larger standing on it, and a room decorated in white, cream, pale yellow and faded brown gets its warm end from the floor upward. On dark parquet the whole thing sharpens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eViscose runs the warp and the weft is wool and viscose together; both are worked entirely by hand, and the fringes come off the ends plaited like ribbon. Viscose is the fiber responsible for the shine — a plant cellulose that behaves optically like silk — and it is also why the rug is more delicate than its size suggests. Nothing about the care is complicated: send it to a rug washer, keep it out of the wet, and do not let a household machine near it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven over months in the Aegean, at the western edge of Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eViscose warp, wool-and-viscose weft, plaited ribbon fringes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with purple flower heads and green foliage in pastel transitions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe center is drawn simply so furniture standing on it reads clearly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePairs with carved classical pieces and with avant-garde furniture equally.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBest over dark flooring, with classical, damask or tulle curtains.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDelicate; professional washing only. One piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a welcome rug in the older Turkish sense — the thing a guest stands on before they have looked at anything else in the house.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 233 X 326","offer_id":44252121465065,"sku":"KIREMI000092.01","price":345000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EmirganSerisiElDokumaMorCicekDesenliKlasikHali_1.jpg?v=1709633349"},{"product_id":"saf-ipek-el-dokuma-sal-desenli-modern-klasik-hali","title":"Brown Shawl-Pattern Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMore than a year at the loom. Brown Shawl-Pattern Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug is tied entirely in silk on a ten-by-ten system — a hundred knots to the square centimeter, roughly a million to the square meter — with shawl motifs at the center and fine linework running out from them across earth tones. One piece, and there will not be a second.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe shawl motif is the teardrop drawing that traveled west on Kashmir shawls and has been rewoven in Anatolia and Persia ever since. Here it sits in the middle of the field with thin modern lines around it, so the rug reads classical from a distance and contemporary up close. The colors are all earth: cream, beige, milk coffee and a dark brown, with green appearing faintly where the drawing needs a cool note. Silk takes dye deeper than wool does, and the browns reach a saturation wool cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA million knots is not a figure quoted for effect — it is what a hundred knots per square centimeter comes to, and it is the reason the pile is thin enough that the rug can be folded like cloth. Weavers in China, where hand-knotted silk is still produced at this density, tied every one of them. Two practical warnings, both from the house: keep it away from animals, which pull silk faster than anything else in a home, and take it to a washer who knows silk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in China in 100% pure silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA ten-by-ten knot system: 100 knots per square centimeter, about one million per square meter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOver a year of weaving for a single rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShawl motifs at the center, fine modern linework around them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream, beige, milk coffee and dark brown, with a trace of green.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThin and light enough to be handled like a length of cloth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNot for a house with animals; silk cleaning by a specialist only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs at this density were always rare and are getting rarer, and what makes this one worth the trouble is that the density is visible to the eye rather than only readable on paper.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Visa \/ 166 X 240","offer_id":44158198317289,"sku":"SARICE000003.01","price":965000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/SafIpekElDokumaSalDesenliModernKlasikHali_3.jpg?v=1708254642"},{"product_id":"cerceveli-krem-el-dokuma-ipek-hali","title":"Cream Cartouche Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSilk rugs of this kind are the work of years, and only a handful of workshops still make them. Cream Cartouche Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug is tied six by six — thirty-six knots to the square centimeter — in pure silk, with panelled cartouche drawing in coffee tones over a cream ground and the pattern raised in relief. A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cartouche — \u003cem\u003epafta\u003c\/em\u003e in Turkish — is a closed panel inside a field, and the drawing sits inside it rather than running loose across the rug. There are several of them here, each holding its own motif, with shawl figures threaded between. The pile has been carved: outlines are clipped lower than the fields they enclose, so the pattern stands up from the surface and catches light along its cut edges. Cream carries it, coffee browns give the panels their weight, and greens move between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-six knots per square centimeter is a moderate density for silk and a very high one for anything else, and it is what lets the relief carving hold a clean edge. It was tied in China, where silk weaving runs back in an unbroken line to the beginning of the trade. A few things to know: it wants natural light to show what it is, it should be kept out of direct sun so the colors hold, animals will damage it, and Halıcızade advises against a gray-toned room, where the cream goes dull. Cleaning is specialist work; the yarn will not take a home solution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in China in pure silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSix-by-six weave: thirty-six knots to the square centimeter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCartouche panels in coffee tones on a cream ground, with shawl motifs between them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pattern is carved in relief and catches light along the cut edges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads best in daylight; keep it out of direct sun to hold the color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNot advised in a gray-toned scheme, and not in a house with animals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist cleaning only. One piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWalnut, marble and dark boards are what it was drawn against, and on any of them the relief does something a flat surface cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 204 X 302","offer_id":44158198710505,"sku":"SARIPE000012.01","price":930000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/CerceveliKremElDokumaIpekHali_1.jpg?v=1719139161"},{"product_id":"saf-ipek-el-dokuma-hereke-desenli-klasik-hali","title":"Deep Red Hereke-Pattern Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeep Red Hereke-Pattern Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug: a dark red ground scattered with the small repeating figures of the Hereke drawing, held against cream, with blue, green and gold sitting underneath the two main colors. Knotted entirely in silk, at eight to fourteen months of work per rug. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHereke is a town east of İstanbul that supplied the Ottoman court and gave its name to the densest Turkish weaving; the pattern is named for the place, and this rug carries the pattern rather than the provenance — it was knotted in China. The scattered form, \u003cem\u003eserpme\u003c\/em\u003e, spreads small motifs evenly across the field instead of building toward a central medallion, which is why a red this dark never becomes heavy. The undertones do the rest. Blue and green cool the red where it would otherwise dominate, and gold marks the places the eye is meant to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEight to fourteen months for one rug is a working figure rather than a boast, and silk at this fineness is the explanation. Silk holds its brightness under wear better than any other rug fiber, and the pile is thin, so a rug like this shows its drawing rather than its depth. Practical matters, all stated by the house: keep it out of direct sunlight or the reds will lift, turn it end for end from time to time so it wears evenly, and keep it away from cats. Cleaning is for a silk specialist; a general rug washer is not enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in China in pure silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBetween eight and fourteen months of weaving for a single rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep red ground with cream, in the scattered \u003cem\u003eserpme\u003c\/em\u003e Hereke drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue, green and gold undertones set beneath the two dominant colors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKeep it out of direct sun; turn it end for end so it wears evenly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSilk is easily damaged by animals; place it accordingly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning by a silk specialist. 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It was woven in eastern Anatolia, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing is Oushak in origin, the classical repertoire of western Anatolia, and here it is arranged as a plain center inside an active border. Cream and beige hold the field; the colors were brought up with natural root dyes rather than industrial ones, so the palette stays close to what the fleece already was. A thin line of green runs through the cream of the border — a line rather than a band, which keeps the frame from shutting the field in. The motifs themselves are silk, and they come forward under lamplight and settle back in daylight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pile is wool and the motifs are silk; warp, weft and knot are wool throughout the ground. The fleece comes from the first shearing, off flocks grazed on the high plateau, where the altitude produces a brighter and softer staple than lowland pasture does. It was tied with the double knot and finished with the grooved technique the eastern workshops used, which raises the density. About six months at the loom. Weaving of this kind has all but stopped in Erzurum and Diyarbakır, so what exists is what exists. Wool and silk together want careful handling: send it to a rug washer, and keep claws off the pile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in eastern Anatolia — Erzurum and Diyarbakır — where this kind of weaving has largely ended.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile with the motifs worked in silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirst-shearing fleece from flocks grazed at altitude.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDouble-knotted and finished with the grooved technique, which raises the density.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAbout six months at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e208 × 291 cm (6'10\" × 9'7\") — a full salon size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNatural root dyes: cream and beige in the field, green through the border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRug washer only, and take care around pets.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn ten years the cream will have gone a shade deeper and the silk will still be the first thing the light finds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"bey \/ 208 X 291","offer_id":47907191652585,"sku":"HASOTT000003.01","price":365000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/OttomanSerisiElDokumaCerceveDesenliKahverengiYunHali_1_1b5320e7-2471-48be-a4a3-7cecd7a5de02.jpg?v=1731678918"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-mor-madalyon-desenli-ipek-yatak-odasi-halisi","title":"Purple Medallion Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hundred knots to the square centimetre, which is a million to the square metre, every one of them tied by hand. This is a hand-knotted pure silk rug with a purple Oushak medallion at its center — warp, weft and pile all silk — woven in China over more than a year. Only a few pieces in this palette exist in Türkiye.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe medallion is the Oushak kind: one large centerpiece with the border repeating its logic in miniature the whole way round. Purple runs from a saturated tone at the middle out into pale lilac, the contrast pitched high enough that the drawing reads from across a room. Purple was the palace color for most of recorded history because the dye was scarce, and a purple silk rug still carries the association whether or not anyone thinks about it. Under a lamp the silk changes value as you move; from the far side of the room the same field looks two shades lighter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk from the Chinese mills and nothing else in it — the warps and the wefts are silk as well as the pile, which is what allows a knot count this high. At a hundred knots per square centimetre the fabric ends up about as thin and as light as a handkerchief; it gathers into two hands. More than a year went into it. Silk is the least forgiving fiber in a rug: keep it out of direct sun, lift anything spilled immediately rather than letting it sit, and let a specialist do the washing. It is also one of the pieces the people in the shop stop at most often, which has as much to do with the depth of the purple as with the shine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in China, where silk weaving has been continuous for centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePure silk: warp, weft and pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAbout 100 knots per square centimetre — roughly a million to the square metre.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePurple through pale lilac, on an Oushak medallion composition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThin and light in the hand, close to the weight of a handkerchief.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMore than a year at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOnly a handful of examples in this color range exist in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing, and away from direct sun.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does a hundred knots per square centimetre actually mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt means roughly a million hand-tied knots in every square metre of the rug. 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The visible pattern is entirely silk and so is the foundation beneath it; the remaining quarter is Erzurum fleece. A handwoven Hanzade Series rug in anthracite gray, carrying an Oushak design several centuries old in a color the Oushak workshops never used. Woven in Türkiye, and no longer made.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnthracite is what makes it modern. The drawing underneath is the classical Oushak grammar — medallion logic, banded borders, stylized flowers — rendered in gray and silver instead of madder and indigo, and that shift changes everything about how it reads. Silk in the pattern catches light against the flat gray of the ground, so from across a room the motifs glitter while the field stays matt. Beside gray upholstery it merges into the scheme; against yellow, orange, red, blue or purple it becomes the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition is 75% silk and 25% wool. The silk is Turkish; the wool is Erzurum yapağı, soft and bright, from the eastern flocks that supply the finest Anatolian weaving. Building the foundation in silk rather than cotton is what makes the rug so thin and light in the hand, and it also sharpens the pattern, because a finer foundation carries a finer knot. It was made with the double knot. The looms that made it have stopped. Silk and wool at this ratio need a specialist rug washer and nothing else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye with the double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e75% silk and 25% wool: Turkish silk, Erzurum yapağı fleece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pattern and the foundation are both silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak drawing in anthracite gray and silver.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThin and light in the hand for a rug of its size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo longer in production.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist rug washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does a silk foundation change?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt makes the rug thinner and lighter than a cotton-founded one, and it lets the weaver place a finer knot, so the pattern comes out sharper. It also means the rug wants specialist cleaning rather than any household method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is Erzurum yapağı?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFleece from flocks in the Erzurum region of eastern Anatolia, shorn and spun for weaving. The altitude gives it a brighter, softer staple than lowland wool, and it goes into the Turkish rugs whose surface has to stay resilient as well as shining.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIs the Hanzade Series still being woven?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo. Production has stopped and what remains is what exists. 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It is a large piece and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak is the western Anatolian pattern family that Europe collected for four centuries, and this version keeps its proportions: an open burgundy center that takes the weight, and borders where beige and gold do the work of lighting it. The yellow and cream passages give off enough brightness to lift the room around them. A dark-fielded rug usually makes a room darker; this one does the opposite. Walnut and gray furnishings take it without argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe foundation is Manchester cotton — a long-staple yarn, brighter and stronger than the standard grade, used here for the warps. Wool goes into the wefts and the pile. High knot density is what allows classical drawing to stay sharp, and it is what makes eight to ten months a realistic figure rather than a boast. Weaving of this kind moved from Türkiye to India as Anatolian hand-knotting contracted. Keep chemicals away from it, keep it out of direct sun, and leave the cleaning to a specialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, at a high knot count.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eManchester cotton warps; wool wefts and pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep burgundy field with beige and gold-yellow borders.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEight to ten months at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLarge enough for a salon, a hotel entrance or the floor beneath a piano.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak drawing, the pattern Europe collected for four centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAway from direct sun, no chemicals, specialist cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is Manchester cotton?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA long-staple cotton yarn of higher grade than standard cotton, with more shine and more strength. In a hand-knotted rug it goes into the warps, where the foundation has to hold the tension of tens of thousands of knots without stretching.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow long does a rug like this take to weave?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween eight and ten months for a piece of this size and density. Every knot is tied individually, and the knot count governs the time — a looser rug of the same dimensions would come off the loom in a fraction of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy is an Oushak design woven in India?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause Anatolian hand-knotting has contracted sharply. 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A hand-knotted wool rug in cream, beige and brown, made with Manchester cotton and lustrous wool. It was drawn for a desk or a dining table to stand on. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe loose field is a functional decision. A rug meant to live under furniture cannot afford a strong center, because the center is the part that disappears; scattering the flowers means the pattern survives being covered. The Oushak border does the framing and gives the eye the edge it needs. Cream, beige and brown carry it, and that range goes with almost any wood, as well as with burgundy and blue upholstery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eManchester cotton in the foundation and bright wool above it, tied by hand at a high density — which is the reason a rug that spends its life under chair legs stays flat and keeps its drawing. The house sells this one only through its own collection. It is at home in an office, a boardroom or a dining room, and it will take the traffic of all three. 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Manchester cotton in the foundation, wool above it. The pattern has been woven in western Anatolia for centuries; this piece was tied in India, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTan and orange is the oldest Oushak palette there is, and it survives because it does something no other combination manages — it puts warmth on a floor without going red. Beige lifts the passages that need lifting, and the near-black navy provides the outline that keeps the whole thing from blurring. Among modern furniture it is the only warm object in the room; in a classical setting it becomes the connecting tissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wool has the shine that comes from a good clip, and the Manchester cotton underneath, a higher grade than standard cotton and brighter, carries the structure. Density is high, which a design with this much small drawing requires. It moves from sitting rooms to dining rooms to large offices without looking out of place in any of them. Professional cleaning, and it is the color range that is worth protecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India with Manchester cotton and lustrous wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTobacco brown, orange and beige, with near-black navy for the outline.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe classical Oushak palette, woven in western Anatolia for centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHigh knot density, which the fine drawing requires.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits sitting rooms, dining rooms and large offices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrange is the color that dates fastest in a room and slowest in a rug, and the Oushak weavers worked that out five hundred years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 360 X 276","offer_id":44659645055209,"sku":"BOZSAL000009.01","price":380000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaUsakDesenliTabaYunHali_1.jpg?v=1709629128"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-klasik-usak-desenli-bordo-hali","title":"Burgundy and Earth-Tone Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese were woven in Türkiye until Anatolian hand-knotting thinned out; now they come from India. This one is a classic Oushak in burgundy and earth tones, tied by hand in wool over a Manchester cotton spine. The design sits in the classical literature and has been produced for hundreds of years. Single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed is what you see first and the earth tones are what hold it. The reds are deep and bright at once, a function of wool taking dye well rather than of the dye itself, and the browns and tans around them absorb enough of the energy to make the rug livable. Under heavy classical furniture it looks inevitable. In a plain modern room it becomes the cultural object, and it changes the register of everything near it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eManchester cotton forms the spine and wool sits above it, on the surface and through the ground. The knotting is tight and the count is high, and eight to ten months is what a piece of this size takes at that density. The same density is why these rugs get passed down instead of replaced: the structure outlasts the fashion. Keep it away from chemicals and let people who clean rugs for a living clean it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, to a design once woven in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eManchester cotton spine; wool on the surface and through the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep, bright reds balanced by brown and tan earth tones.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTight, high-count knotting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEight to ten months at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads as inevitable under heavy classical furniture, and as the one cultural object in a plain room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo chemicals; cleaning by professionals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern is in the classical literature, which means somebody will still recognize it a century from now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 366X277","offer_id":45712733634793,"sku":"BOZSAL000010.01","price":390000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaKlasikUsakDesenliBordoHali_1.jpg?v=1709629014"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-usak-desenli-bordo-pamuk-hali","title":"Burgundy Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurgundy over tan, with cream drawing spread right across the field: a hand-knotted wool rug in the Oushak manner, 272 × 367 cm (8'11\" × 12'0\"). Oushak — Uşak in Turkish — is the weaving district of western Anatolia whose large, openly spaced patterns have been copied for four centuries. This one was tied in India, and there is exactly one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern is the Oushak kind rather than the Persian one: motifs drawn big, spaced generously, and a border that repeats a simplified version of whatever the field is doing. Burgundy holds the middle and tan carries the edges, while cream runs between them as outline rather than as a color of its own. The surface has a definite sheen. Manchester yarn was used in the weaving and it takes light along the pile, so the burgundy goes deep and almost brown from one end of the room and lifts back to red from the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt came off an Indian loom, since that is where most Oushak-pattern weaving now happens — production of the pattern in Uşak itself has thinned to very little. The weave is packed tight, and that density is what keeps a field this open from looking thin. One practical thing is worth saying before anything else: 272 × 367 cm is close to nine feet by twelve, so it takes two people to lay it and a specialist to wash it. This is not a rug anyone moves on a whim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, in the Oushak pattern of western Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile, closely packed, with Manchester yarn giving the surface its sheen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy field over tan, with the drawing outlined in cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLarge motifs widely spaced, in the Oushak manner rather than the Persian one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e272 × 367 cm (8'11\" × 12'0\") — a full living-room size, or a dining room with the chairs pulled out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece, at these exact dimensions, and no second one behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnder dark walnut it settles and reads brown; in a white room on pale boards the red comes up and takes the whole floor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 272 X 367","offer_id":44659648135401,"sku":"BOZSAL000046.01","price":385000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaUsakDesenliBordoTabaYunHali_1_f23627c4-5569-4481-8747-5f92b0785b3c.jpg?v=1709628706"},{"product_id":"usak-desenli-el-dokuma-klasik-hali","title":"Blue Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlmost nobody weaves the Oushak pattern in Uşak any more. This one was knotted in Pakistan instead, in wool on a cotton warp, 310 × 420 cm (10'2\" × 13'9\"), with the blue of open sky running underneath yellow and brown drawing. It belongs to the Mahal series and there is a single piece of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlue does the work here. The yarns were dyed by a method that leaves several values of one color in the same batch, so the ground shifts by half a tone across a hand's width and never sits flat — the effect a rug person calls abrash, arrived at on purpose. Yellow and brown carry the motifs above it, held in pastel and earth values rather than saturated ones, and that restraint is why a rug covering this much floor does not shout. The tonal spread is even across the whole field instead of pooling at one end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is tied with the double knot, meaning each knot is closed twice: a rug made this way takes about twice as long as one of the same knot count tied the ordinary way, and the interlocking rows are what hold the structure together. Cotton makes the warps and wool makes the pile, both spun by hand rather than drawn from mill thread. Keep it out of direct sun, because a rug dyed to hold this many close values is precisely the kind that fades unevenly. Rotate it end for end about once a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Pakistan, where most Oushak-pattern weaving now takes place.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton warp, tied throughout with the double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDouble knotting roughly doubles the weaving time against a single-knotted rug of the same density.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue ground with yellow and brown motifs, in pastel and earth values.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDyed so that several tones of one color appear across a single surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e310 × 420 cm (10'2\" × 13'9\"), a size for a large living room or a wide entrance hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning; keep it away from direct sunlight and rotate it occasionally.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a calm rug for a loud room, and the reason to put it in a big entrance is that the space then reads as somewhere you have arrived rather than somewhere you pass through.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 310X420","offer_id":45712734585065,"sku":"KERMAH000169.01","price":320000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaHali_1.jpg?v=1709626584"},{"product_id":"nadide-serisi-el-dokuma-geometrik-desenli-hali","title":"Red Geometric Handwoven Naturally Dyed Wool Rug, Nadide Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe yarn came from somewhere else first. 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Sixty-four knots to the centimeter square puts hundreds of thousands of them into every square meter, and that density is what pays for the detail — it is also most of what the rug costs, since silk is among the dearest fibers in textiles and only a small number of people still weave it at this scale. Matching sets in several sizes are made, which is now rare in pure silk anywhere. Keep it clear of animals with claws. 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The fiber is silk throughout, surface and structure alike, which is now unusual — the number of rugs knotted from pure silk falls every year, and that scarcity is a fact about the market rather than a reason to hurry. It is thin, light and delicate: low-suction vacuuming, no direct sun, professional washing only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does an 8 × 8 knot density mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt counts eight knots across and eight down in every square centimeter, or sixty-four knots per square centimeter. The higher the count, the smaller each knot, and the finer the curve a weaver can draw — which is why fine floral patterns need a high density to work at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eCan this rug be hung on a wall?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes. At 108 × 159 cm it is light enough to hang, and pure silk rugs are often displayed rather than walked on, because the pile is delicate and the color changes with the viewing angle. 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Around the center, leaves curl outward on stems drawn only a knot or two wide, and the border closes them without adding another argument. Cream silk under light is not a flat color: it lifts to a low gleam where the pile lies away from you and sinks to bone where it lies toward you, so the same medallion appears to float or to sit depending on where you stand. On a wall it reads as a picture. On a floor it redefines whichever end of the room it is in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery knot in it is silk, and the knot count is high enough to hold a curved stem \u0026mdash; that density is what makes the months of weaving necessary. A rug this fine is a delicate surface: it needs professional cleaning, and it should not go where a chair is dragged. 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The composition is framed — border inside border, with the drawing gathered toward the middle — and restrained enough that from a doorway the whole thing reads as plain cream.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUp close it is not plain at all. The center holds a quiet balance of motifs in cream and beige, none of them raised above the others, and the frames step inward in narrowing bands until they meet it. What changes is the light. Silk at this knot density has two faces, matt when the pile lies away from you and near-satin when it lies toward you, so the same rug is dull from one end of the room and lit from the other. Beside walnut or a pale natural wood it stays in the same register; add brass or iron and the classical side of the drawing comes forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk in the warp as well as the pile is the expensive decision here, and it is what makes the fabric so thin and so strong at once. 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Angle matters more than color here: from one side it is a quiet shimmer, from the other it is warm and nearly matt, and it moves between the two as the sun does, without anyone touching it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery square centimeter is silk, warp and weft included, and the piece was knotted by hand over months. Soft silk of this kind receives a footprint the way fresh snow does. The mark is not damage and it lifts when the pile is brushed with the nap, but anyone who wants a floor that never shows where people walked should be looking at wool instead. Walnut and maple sit naturally beside it; brass and metalwork push it toward the formal. 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This rug was knotted there: a pure silk Azerbaijani rug, 250 × 337 cm (8'2\" × 11'1\"), in a Heriz drawing with Oushak inflections, cream at the center and red around the edges, and between eight and fourteen months on the loom.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Heriz layout is large-scale by nature — big angular medallions, broad corner pieces, borders wide enough to carry a pattern of their own — and at this size it has the room to be what it is. Cream holds the middle. Red runs the edge and does most of the shouting. Between them the palette opens into gold, burgundy, a water-green and a soft gray that keeps the whole from settling into a single loud statement. The Oushak influence shows in how the motifs are spaced rather than in any one figure, which is the sort of borrowing that only appears on a close reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk warp, silk weft, silk pile, tied with the single-knot technique at six by six, which is thirty-six knots in a square centimeter. That is sparser than most silk rugs, and it is a choice rather than a shortcut: the looser structure gives the fabric a softer hand and a heavier drape than a tightly packed silk piece has. The silk is Azeri, rare enough that a woven statement on the underside says so. Surface marks come off with a damp cloth; anything deeper goes to a specialist, and never to an attempt at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Şeki, Azerbaijan, in pure Azeri silk throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThirty-six knots in a square centimeter, six by six — sparser than most silk rugs, and softer for it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTied with the single-knot technique, silk wefts over a silk warp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBetween eight and fourteen months at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA woven mark on the underside states that the silk is Azeri.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHeriz drawing with Oushak influence: cream center, red border, gold, burgundy, water-green and gray between.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e250 × 337 cm (8'2\" × 11'1\") — a salon size that will take a seating group standing inside it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDamp cloth on the surface, a specialist for the rest. One piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat makes Azeri silk different?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eŞeki has raised its own silkworms since the sixteenth century and milled silk industrially since 1829, dyeing with natural dyes throughout. Rugs woven there carry a mark on the underside stating that the silk is Azeri, because the material is scarce enough to be worth naming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIs six by six a low knot count for a silk rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is sparser than most. Thirty-six knots per square centimeter gives a looser structure than a densely packed silk rug, and the result is softer and more pliable with a heavier drape. The fine detail is carried by the drawing rather than by density.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a Heriz pattern?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeriz is a weaving town in Iranian Azerbaijan, known for large angular medallions, broad corner pieces and wide borders. 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The wool is in it for body; everything you see is silk. The pattern is no longer being made.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream is a difficult ground because it gives a pattern nothing to push against, so the drawing here is symmetrical and thin rather than bold — a repeating flower held inside a frame, with the field left open between repeats. In daylight the silk returns light instead of absorbing it and the ground looks lit from beneath. Toward evening it goes ivory, and the flowers, barely a tone darker, all but disappear. It behaves the way a pale silk shawl behaves, for the same reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnots in the hundreds of thousands, set by hand in China, over a production counted in months rather than weeks. About ninety percent of the yarn is silk and roughly ten percent wool, and the wool gives the pile enough spring to stand up under a chair leg, which silk at this fineness will not do on its own. The workshop has stopped weaving this design, so the pieces in circulation are the pieces that exist. It is fine and thin and it wants a floor without heavy traffic. Cleaning: professional only.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRoughly 90% silk with about 10% wool, hand-knotted in China.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMonths at the loom; hundreds of thousands of knots.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with symmetrical flower motifs set along the frame.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e162 × 240 cm (5'4\" × 7'10\") — a dining room, a seating corner, a bedroom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVery fine and thin; better away from a busy route through the house.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOut of production; this design is not being rewoven.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs like this were once ordinary in the trade and are now scarce, which changes nothing about how it looks and everything about how it should be treated.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 162 X 240","offer_id":45556597784809,"sku":"SARZAD000009.01","price":250000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ZadeSerisiCicekDesenliElDokumaKremIpekliHali_1.jpg?v=1705491692"},{"product_id":"usak-cerceve-desenli-el-dokuma-krem-ipek-hali","title":"Cream Oushak Frame-Pattern Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Oushak frame — a wide bordered rectangle with the field left comparatively open — is the pattern here, worked in cream and closed by red borders on a rug of 171 × 242 cm (5'7\" × 7'11\") woven in pure silk from warp to weft. Fine leaves and flower forms are scattered through the field. Made by hand in China. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost of the drawing happens at the edges. The red borders are the strongest color on the rug and they hold a field that has been kept deliberately quiet, with leaf and flower forms distributed rather than repeated. Just inside the fringes at either end the knotting tightens and a band of raised flower heads appears, the densest work on the piece and the place to look if you want to see what the weaver could do. Silk shifts color with the angle of the light, so the cream travels from bone to honey depending on where you stand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk in the warp, silk in the weft, silk in the pile: there is no cotton anywhere in it, which is unusual, and it is why the rug is so thin and so heavy for its thickness. It was woven by hand in China, where silk rug weaving has run continuously for centuries. A rug with no cotton in the structure is more delicate than one with, so it should not sit under a door that sweeps and should never be dragged. Walnut and maple sit well beside it; brass fittings push it toward the formal. 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Here the warp and weft are silk as well, which makes the rug thinner, heavier in the hand for its thickness, and more delicate at the edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere is the finest work on this rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJust inside the fringe at each end, where the knot count rises and a band of raised flower heads is worked. That band took longer than an equivalent area of the open field and is the clearest evidence of the weaver's skill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt reads formal beside walnut and brass, and modern on a bare pale floor with nothing else in the room competing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"FAQPage\",\n  \"mainEntity\": [\n    {\n      \"@type\": \"Question\",\n      \"name\": \"What does it mean that a rug is pure silk in the warp and weft?\",\n      \"acceptedAnswer\": {\n        \"@type\": \"Answer\",\n        \"text\": \"Most silk rugs are silk only in the pile and use cotton for the structure underneath. 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Because so much of the surface is pale, it will show a spill more readily than a dark rug would, which is worth knowing before it goes under a dining table. 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This is a handwoven Nahar Series rug, roughly nine-tenths silk and one-tenth wool, made in China across several months, with a geometric border closing the composition. The design has gone out of production.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNothing in the field announces itself. The branches are drawn thin and the flowers small, in pastel tones a single step away from the ground they sit on, and from the doorway the whole rug reads as one pale surface. Walk onto it and the drawing resolves. The border follows the opposite instinct — geometric, firm, traditional in shape — putting a hard edge around a soft field and stopping the composition from drifting. The motifs themselves belong to the Anatolian and Central Asian flower repertoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk makes up about ninety percent of the yarn and wool about ten. The wool is not filler: a pile of pure silk at this fineness collapses under weight, and the wool is what lets it recover. Weaving took months in a Chinese workshop, and that workshop no longer produces the design, so what is in circulation is what there is. It is fine, low in pile, and better suited to a quiet room than a busy one. 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Red carries the field, beige carries the drawing, and a plain frame runs around the outside to keep the pattern from crowding the edge. Woven by hand in China. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe center is built on repetition rather than on a medallion: a regular rhythm of red and beige forms that reads as texture from standing height and as drawing from a chair. The frame is deliberately plain, which is a harder decision than it sounds, since a busy border would have doubled the information and halved the effect. Silk at this scale gives the red two lives. Lit from the side it is close to lacquer; lit from above it drops to a deep matt and the beige comes forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no cotton anywhere in it. Chinese silk was used for the warp and the weft as well as the pile, which is the traditional method and the expensive one, and the fringes are the warp threads themselves rather than a band sewn on afterwards. Months went into the weaving. A rug built this way is strong along its length and fragile at its edges, so it needs a floor where furniture is not dragged across it. Send it to a specialist for washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100% pure silk — warp, weft and pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by hand in China by the traditional silk method.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRed field in a repeating rhythm with beige, inside a plain frame.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe fringes are the warp threads, not a sewn-on addition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e218 × 302 cm (7'2\" × 9'11\") — a salon, a formal room, a large office.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFragile at the edges; not a rug to drag furniture over.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBeige borders sit well with walnut and with brass fittings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning. 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Warp, weft and pile are all silk, knotted by hand in China across months. It exists once.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurgundy takes light differently from red: it holds more of it and gives less back, so the yellow drawing over the top has to be thin to stay visible, and it is. The forms run in a continuous flow through the center rather than resolving into a medallion. Then the border reverses the temperature, blue and cream against a warm ground, and that reversal is what keeps the rug from going heavy. Under lamplight the burgundy deepens almost to brown and the blue in the border becomes the only cool thing left in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChinese silk, densely knotted, with no cotton in the structure at all. The Chinese silk-weaving tradition is one of the few that has run long enough without interruption to keep this knot density in production, and the density is what allows drawing this fine. It took months. A pure-silk rug is soft to the hand and firm to the eye, and it is also the most delicate floor covering anyone makes, so it belongs in a formal room rather than a family one. Only a professional washer should touch it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWarp, weft and pile in 100% silk; no cotton in the structure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDensely knotted by hand in China across several months.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep burgundy field with fine yellow drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBorder in blue and cream, cool against a warm ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e220 × 303 cm (7'3\" × 9'11\") — a large salon or a formal reception room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWalnut and maple warm it; brass fittings formalize it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDelicate, and best on a floor that sees careful use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning only. 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Burgundy Classic Hand-Knotted Silk Rug: 100% pure silk, knotted in China, 207 \u0026times; 309 cm (6'9\" \u0026times; 10'2\"), a burgundy field carrying gold figures drawn after Oushak motifs, with green and beige showing through.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt that density the drawing can do things wool cannot. Stems cross without thickening, the gold outlines hold their width around a curve, and the small green and beige passages read as separate colors rather than as noise. Burgundy is the thing that will sell this rug or stop it: under daylight it is a clear red-brown; under a warm bulb it deepens almost to black at the edges of the field and the gold lifts off it. This is a rug that changes character at six in the evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePure silk rugs of this size are made in smaller and smaller numbers, in T\u0026uuml;rkiye and everywhere else, and finding one at all is now the hard part. Every knot in this one is silk. It has the failings of silk as well: it needs a specialist washer and it will not forgive a cat. Set it under carved walnut or gilded furniture and it does the expected thing; set it in a room with Scandinavian furniture and a bare wall and it does something better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100% pure silk, hand-knotted in China.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSixty-four knots per square centimeter \u0026mdash; an 8 \u0026times; 8 knot spacing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEight to fourteen months of weaving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e207 \u0026times; 309 cm (6'9\" \u0026times; 10'2\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground with gold figures after Oushak motifs, and green and beige passages.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe color deepens sharply under warm light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNot for a household with cats; cleaning by a silk specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eQuestions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow many knots does this rug have per square centimeter?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSixty-four. 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Beige Vintage Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool and Silk Rug, 181 × 252 cm (5'11\" × 8'3\"), knotted in Türkiye: a beige ground carrying red-toned block motifs drawn from Uşak, spaced widely enough to read as modern. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak — Uşak, in western Türkiye — has been drawing this family of forms for centuries, and what has been done here is to lift the blocks out of their crowded historical setting and leave ground around them. The red is not one red: it moves through brick and rust because the wool takes dye differently from row to row. Silk is used only inside the figures, so the pattern lifts under a window and settles again under lamplight while the beige stays exactly where it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pile is Erzurum fleece, wool with enough of its own oil left in it to grow brighter as it is walked on rather than duller. 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Knotted in Türkiye by Has Halı. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNothing on it is centered, and that is a practical virtue. The motifs sit at even intervals so no part of the rug is the part you are meant to look at, which means a sofa can stand anywhere on it without covering the composition. Uşak's old drawing lies underneath all of it, the lines softened. The silk sits inside the figures and does what a gilt frame does to a painting — it marks the edge and stops the pattern dissolving into the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wool comes from Erzurum, where the fleece keeps enough natural oil that it strengthens with use instead of going lifeless, and the silk in the motifs is fine enough to catch light from across a room. The whole rug is worked with the traditional Turkish double knot, closely set, and the maker's tuğra is woven into the reverse where it can be checked. It is a quiet rug rather than a loud one, and that is the point of it. Take it to a rug washer; nothing at home will do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye by Has Halı, tuğra on the reverse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum wool in the ground, silk in the motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMotifs spread evenly, with no central medallion to work around.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUşak drawing, softened and reworked for a contemporary room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDense double knotting throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e179 × 260 cm (5'10\" × 8'6\") — a full seating group fits inside it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRug-washer only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet beside oak and undyed linen it reads as a household object; put a chrome-and-glass table on it and it becomes the oldest thing in the room by a century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"bey \/ 179 X 260","offer_id":46164166082793,"sku":"OZLKOL000015.01","price":350000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaVintageDesenliIpekliYunHali_5_f3771b75-3cfb-4615-8572-72dc46eb57d0.jpg?v=1706024217"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-usak-desenli-kahverengi-yun-hali","title":"Brown Oushak Handwoven Wool Rug, Ottoman Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere is a tughra on the back \u0026mdash; the Ottoman sultan's cipher, worked in as the maker's mark by Has Hal\u0026#305;, who wove this piece. Brown Oushak Handwoven Wool Rug from the Ottoman series: first-grade Erzurum fleece, double-knotted in T\u0026uuml;rkiye, a warm brown field inside a softened blue border, at 206 \u0026times; 273 cm (6'9\" \u0026times; 8'11\") and 206 \u0026times; 283 cm (6'9\" \u0026times; 9'3\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrown and blue is an old Anatolian pairing and a difficult one to get right, because a brown too far toward red turns the blue purple. This brown stays on the earth side of the range and the blue in the border is softened almost to slate, so the two meet without either winning. 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Cream, beige, mink, gold and copper, on a densely knotted wool ground. This is the only piece at this size.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe design has no repeat and no border. Forms drift across the field, some of them barely darker than the ground, a few of them picked out in copper and gold where the bamboo viscose sits. Viscose reflects and wool does not, so those passages read metallic from one side of the room and vanish from the other — the pattern is legible from the doorway and half-gone from the sofa. Beige and mink carry everything between. It is a large rug that changes as you cross it and stays quiet while you sit on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJaipur Rugs made it, in India, knotted by hand and packed tight — the density is what you feel first when you press a palm into it, and it is why the surface holds a flat, even plane rather than compressing into footprints. Wool does the ground; bamboo viscose does the drawing. Bamboo viscose is what the house calls this fiber, in preference to bamboo silk, because it is a viscose and it behaves like one: soft, lustrous, and unforgiving of a domestic clean. Send it to a specialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India by Jaipur Rugs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool ground with bamboo viscose worked into the motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream, beige, mink, gold and copper, in an abstract field with no border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTightly knotted — the density is audible when you press it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe viscose passages catch light from one direction and disappear from another.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e244 × 302 cm (8'0\" × 9'11\") — a wide room; it will take a full seating group.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist cleaning only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece in this size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTen years of a room walking over it will pull the copper down toward the beige, and that is when it will look best.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Diğer","offers":[{"title":"bey \/ 244 X 302","offer_id":47907176710377,"sku":"EKOKON000006.01","price":300000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluSalSerisiPatchworkDesenliElDokumaYunHali_1_558a2477-4efe-4b97-8a49-f4ba1574fc0a.jpg?v=1713257946"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-krem-yun-hali","title":"Cream Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCream, gold-yellow, beige, pale green and a faded blush pink: five colors, none of them loud, arranged over Oushak drawing on a rug of 211 × 281 cm (6'11\" × 9'3\"). Woven in Türkiye at the Çınar Halı workshops, which supply the Harem series, in first-shearing wool with silk running through the same pile. There is one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe palette is why this piece was chosen. Read together the five tones behave like a bed of flowers seen from across a lawn, distinct up close and continuous from the doorway, and the traditional Anatolian drawing underneath is what keeps the effect from turning decorative. Nothing in the field is dark enough to anchor a room by force. What it does instead is lift one — in a space with cream walls and light oak the rug disappears into the scheme, and in a room of heavy furniture it is the one pale thing that stops the whole from closing in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÇınar Halı, which has taken international awards for its designs, is the maker. Its wool comes from the first shearing of Erzurum fleece, the clip taken from an animal that has never been sheared before, brighter and softer than any cut that follows, and silk goes into the pile beside it. The construction is the symmetrical Turkish knot over two warps at high density, slow work, and the reason the house files this weaving class among its rare pieces. A cream ground shows what a dark one hides, so keep it out of a hallway, and let a professional washer be the only person who ever wets it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKnotted by hand in Türkiye at Çınar Halı, for the Harem series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece from the first clip, spun into the pile alongside silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream, gold-yellow, beige, pale green and blush pink over Oushak drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSymmetrical Turkish knot, tied over two warps, at high density.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e211 × 281 cm (6'11\" × 9'3\") — a full seating group, or a large bedroom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLooms working to this standard are fewer every season.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by trained rug washers only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat makes the Harem series rare?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot the design but the density. 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