{"title":"Hand-Knotted Rugs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hand-knotted rug is one in which every tuft of pile has been tied around the warp threads by hand, row by row, on a loom. Nothing about the pile is mechanical. In Anatolia the knot used is the symmetrical G\u0026ouml;rdes knot, the yarn is wool, cotton or silk, and a single room-sized rug takes a weaver months.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are the slowest things in the catalog and the ones most often imitated. What follows is how the knot is formed, which Anatolian districts weave what, how to read the back of a rug in a shop, and how to wash and store one so that it lasts the decades it is capable of lasting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat happens at the loom\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hand-knotted rug is built from the bottom up, one horizontal row at a time. The warp is strung the full length of the loom and held under tension. The weaver ties a short length of yarn around each pair of warps, cuts it, moves along the row, and when the row is finished passes one or two weft threads across to lock it. Then the whole row is beaten down with an iron comb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rug grows a few millimeters an hour. When it comes off the loom the pile is uneven, and it is sheared level by hand afterward; the fringe at each end is not attached but is the warp itself, tied off. That is the single structural fact that separates hand-knotted work from everything a machine produces, and it is the fact a buyer can check in ten seconds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe G\u0026ouml;rdes knot and the Senneh knot\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo knots account for almost every hand-knotted rug in the world. The \u003cstrong\u003eG\u0026ouml;rdes knot\u003c\/strong\u003e, also called the Turkish or symmetrical knot, wraps the yarn around two warp threads and brings both ends up between them. It is secure, it sits square, and it draws straight lines and angles well \u0026mdash; which is why Anatolian design is geometric.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eSenneh knot\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Persian or asymmetrical knot, loops around one warp and passes behind the next. It packs more tightly and turns corners more smoothly, which is why Persian workshops could draw vines, faces and script. Neither knot is stronger than the other. They draw differently, and the design tradition of each region followed the knot it used. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/persian-rugs\"\u003ePersian rugs\u003c\/a\u003e for the second family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhere they are woven, and how each district differs\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHandweaving in Türkiye clusters in a handful of provinces: Milas, Afyon, Sivas, Kayseri, Isparta and Antalya, with Milas and Isparta the most widely known. Each district kept its own palette, format and drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003cth\u003eDistrict or type\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eWhat distinguishes it\u003c\/th\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eOushak (U\u0026#351;ak)\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eOpen fields and wide medallions in apricot, madder and soft blue; one of the earliest Anatolian weaving centers and a marker of settled village life. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/usak-rugs\"\u003eOushak rugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eKayseri\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCentral Anatolian workshop weaving, classical drawing reworked in wool, mercerized cotton and silk. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/kayseri-rugs\"\u003eKayseri rugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eTa\u0026#351;p\u0026#305;nar\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003ePredominantly geometric drawing, carrying an old Anatolian repertoire with very little floral work. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/taspinar-rugs\"\u003eTa\u0026#351;p\u0026#305;nar rugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eMilas\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eMu\u0026#287;la province; small formats, strong yellows and browns, and a distinctive narrow-necked prayer niche. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/milas-rugs\"\u003eMilas rugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eMalatya\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eWoven entirely in wool and colored with natural dyes; geometric drawing that follows the region's own repertoire.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eB\u0026uuml;nyan\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eKayseri district, unusual in this group for combining a wool pile with a cotton warp, which gives a flatter, more regular back.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eNev\u0026#351;ehir\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCappadocian weaving with a long documented history, grouped with Oushak as one of the older settled traditions.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eSivas\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eEastern Anatolian workshop rugs, finer than village weaving and usually in a restrained palette. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/sivas-rugs\"\u003eSivas rugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eAfghan and Shirvan\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eNon-Anatolian traditions carried in the same trade; Shirvan from the Caucasus, both with a long history and now scarce in good condition. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/afghan-rugs\"\u003eAfghan rugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eBukhara\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCentral Asian Turkmen drawing, repeating g\u0026uuml;l medallions on a red ground; genuine old examples are increasingly hard to find.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003ePatchwork\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eThe recent one. Panels cut from separate old rugs and rejoined into a single piece. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/patchwork-rugs\"\u003epatchwork rugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eColor follows the same map. Persian weaving leans on red and blue; Anatolian weaving is broader, and yellow, orange and madder red run through it. Fiber is the other variable: \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wool-rugs\"\u003ewool\u003c\/a\u003e for almost everything, cotton for warps and for a crisper pile, and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/silk-rugs\"\u003esilk\u003c\/a\u003e where the drawing is fine enough to need it. Smaller formats include the \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/handwoven-prayer-rugs\"\u003ehandwoven prayer rug\u003c\/a\u003e, which works as a prayer rug and equally as a small floor rug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat the back of a rug tells you\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost everything. Turn it over and the pattern should be legible from behind, in rows that are visibly not quite straight. Hand-tied knots do not fall into perfect bands; they wander by a fraction of a millimeter, and the rows drift. A machine-woven back is a flat, even mesh, the pattern is muffled, and there is usually a backing material and a fringe sewn or glued on afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKnot density is counted here as well, in knots per square decimeter. It is worth understanding what density does and does not buy. A higher count allows finer drawing \u0026mdash; curved stems, small script, a face. It does not make a rug last longer. A coarse village rug in good highland wool will outwear a fine one, and the two are priced for different reasons. Read \u003ca href=\"\/en\/blogs\/news\/how-to-identify-a-handwoven-rug\"\u003ehow to identify a handwoven rug\u003c\/a\u003e for the tests in order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTime is the other thing the back records. A small prayer-rug format may take a few weeks. A room-sized rug at a moderate density takes a single weaver several months, and a fine silk rug can take more than a year. That labor is the whole of the gap between this collection and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/machine-rugs\"\u003emachine-woven rugs\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat to check before you buy one\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe yarn.\u003c\/strong\u003e If a rug is sold as wool, it should be wool throughout the pile rather than wool blended down with something cheaper. Ask what the warp is as well; wool on wool and wool on cotton behave differently.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe knots.\u003c\/strong\u003e Look for the irregularity described above. Perfectly straight bands of knots across the back mean a loom, not a hand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe dyes.\u003c\/strong\u003e Colors should hold against sunlight and water. Rub a damp white cloth across the pile: any transfer is a dye that will move again the first time the rug is washed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe drawing.\u003c\/strong\u003e Motifs worked knot by knot have small variations between repeats. Machine patterns repeat exactly. Corners are the giveaway, because that is where a weaver has to resolve a border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe seller.\u003c\/strong\u003e A hand-knotted rug is a considered purchase and is normally sold with a written guarantee. Ask for it, and ask what it covers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompare against \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/turkish-rugs\"\u003eTurkish rugs\u003c\/a\u003e as a whole before deciding, and if the rug is being sold as old, read \u003ca href=\"\/en\/blogs\/news\/antique-vs-vintage-handwoven-rug\"\u003eantique against vintage\u003c\/a\u003e first. The house convention, which is trade usage and not issued by any authority, runs: antique 100 years or more, semi-antique 50 to 100, vintage 20 to 80, and new below that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWashing and daily cleaning\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hand-knotted rug is washed less often than any other kind of rug in the house. Day to day, a vacuum on a low setting takes the dust out of the pile; a lightly damp cloth drawn in the direction of the pile does the rest. Neither needs doing aggressively.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen it does need washing, the safe answer is a professional who handles hand-knotted work, or a dry clean. If it is washed at home, use a mild soap with no bleach in it. Bleach and harsh detergents make natural dyes run, and a run in a madder red cannot be undone. Air the rug first, work gently with a soft cloth or brush, rinse the cleaner out completely, and get it dry immediately in a cool, ventilated place. A rug left damp will smell and eventually rot, and a rug dried in direct sun will fade. See \u003ca href=\"\/en\/blogs\/news\/how-to-wash-a-rug\"\u003ehow a rug is washed\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eStoring one\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVacuum and wipe the rug down before it goes away, and lift loose hair and lint off the surface with a soft brush. Roll it; never fold it. A fold sets a crease into the foundation that will still be there years later, and in an old rug the crease line is where the warp eventually breaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStore it at room temperature. Extreme heat and extreme cold both work on wool and on the foundation, and damp is worse than either. Wool is food for moths, so a stored rug needs a moth deterrent and needs unrolling and airing periodically rather than being left untouched for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFrequently asked questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is the difference between the Gördes knot and the Senneh knot?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gördes knot is symmetrical and wraps two warp threads, which suits geometric drawing and is standard in Anatolia. The Senneh knot is asymmetrical, loops one warp, packs tighter and allows the curved floral drawing associated with Persian workshops.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow can I tell a hand-knotted rug from a machine-made one?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurn it over. A hand-knotted back shows the pattern clearly in rows of knots that drift slightly out of line, and the fringe is the warp itself. A machine-made back is an even mesh with a backing and a fringe sewn or glued on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a good knot density for a hand-knotted rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no single figure. Density is counted in knots per square decimeter and decides how fine the drawing can be, not how long the rug lasts. Village rugs are coarse by design and can outlast much finer workshop pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow long does it take to weave a hand-knotted rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small prayer-rug format takes a few weeks. A room-sized rug at moderate density takes one weaver several months, and a fine silk rug can take more than a year. The labor is what separates the price from a machine-woven rug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere are hand-knotted rugs woven in Türkiye?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe main provinces are Milas, Afyon, Sivas, Kayseri, Isparta and Antalya, with Milas and Isparta the most widely recognized. Taşpınar, Malatya, Bünyan and Nevşehir each keep their own palette, format and drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow should a hand-knotted rug be stored?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVacuum it, brush off loose lint, then roll it rather than folding it, because a fold sets a permanent crease into the foundation. Keep it at room temperature away from damp, use a moth deterrent, and unroll and air it periodically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCan a hand-knotted rug be washed at home?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt can, with care, but professional washing or dry cleaning is safer. Use a mild soap with no bleach, since bleach and harsh detergents make natural dyes run, then rinse fully and dry the rug quickly in a cool, ventilated place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is the difference between the Gördes knot and the Senneh knot?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The Gördes knot is symmetrical and wraps two warp threads, which suits geometric drawing and is standard in Anatolia. The Senneh knot is asymmetrical, loops one warp, packs tighter and allows the curved floral drawing associated with Persian workshops.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"How can I tell a hand-knotted rug from a machine-made one?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Turn it over. 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Use a mild soap with no bleach, since bleach and harsh detergents make natural dyes run, then rinse fully and dry the rug quickly in a cool, ventilated place.\"}}]}\u003c\/script\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery hand-knotted rug above passes through Hal\u0026#305;c\u0026#305;zade Hal\u0026#305; Kilim in \u0026Ccedil;ayyolu, Ankara, where the back is read and the knot count recorded before the rug is listed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLast updated: 10 September 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelated collections:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wool-rugs\"\u003ewool rugs\u003c\/a\u003e \u0026middot; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/silk-rugs\"\u003esilk rugs\u003c\/a\u003e \u0026middot; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/sivas-rugs\"\u003eSivas rugs\u003c\/a\u003e \u0026middot; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/turkish-rugs\"\u003eTurkish rugs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","products":[{"product_id":"humayun-serisi-anadolu-desenli-mavi-el-dokuma-hali","title":"Blue Anatolian Medallion Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Hümayun Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA medallion sits at the center and holds the whole rug together, drawn from Anatolian and Middle Eastern sources and worked in modern blues rather than the old ones. Hand-knotted in India: wool and cotton in the ground, viscose through the motifs where it shines like silk, and the pattern cut into relief by hand with shears. Five sizes, and the biggest of them is 250 × 350 cm (8'2\" × 11'6\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo traditions meet in the drawing and neither wins. The Anatolian half supplies the medallion and the framing bands; the Middle Eastern half supplies the density of the small ornament between them. The blues are current rather than antique — a cooler, cleaner range than a nineteenth-century rug would use — and the effect is that an old composition reads as a new object. Where the viscose runs, the pattern catches light and lifts off the wool around it, so the medallion appears to sit slightly above its own ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnot density is high, which is the only reason ornament this fine survives being woven at all, and the carving afterward is what gives the relief. Both are hand operations and both take time. The rug does its best work where people arrive rather than where they settle — an entrance hall, a study, a room where one object is expected to carry the space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool and cotton in the ground, viscose worked through the motifs for shine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnatolian medallion with Middle Eastern ornament, in contemporary blues.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pattern is carved into relief by hand with shears after weaving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHigh knot density, which is what keeps the fine ornament readable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFive sizes, from 125 × 185 cm to 250 × 350 cm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a specialist, and no home shampoo on the viscose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs built around a single medallion get harder to move as the years pass, because a room ends up arranged around the middle of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Navy blue \/ 125 X 185","offer_id":44370998526185,"sku":"EKOHUM000001.05","price":58000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Navy blue \/ 170 X 240","offer_id":46029630243049,"sku":"EKOHUM000001.02","price":102000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Navy blue \/ 200 X 270","offer_id":46029630275817,"sku":"EKOHUM000001.06","price":135000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Navy blue \/ 250 X 300","offer_id":46029630308585,"sku":"EKOHUM000001.01","price":188000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Navy blue \/ 250 X 350","offer_id":46029630341353,"sku":"EKOHUM000001.04","price":220000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HumayunSerisiAnadoluDesenliMaviElDokumaHali_1.jpg?v=1709564090"},{"product_id":"krem-gri-modern-tasarim-patchwork-desenli-yun-el-dokuma-hali-1083","title":"Cream Patchwork Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Örge Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSquares of different texture set beside one another, some flat and quiet, some raised and rough — the cream patchwork rug from the Örge series is hand-knotted in India with thick knots, in cream and beige that move into one another rather than meeting at a line. Five sizes are made; 170 × 240 cm (5'7\" × 7'10\") sits in the middle of the range, and there is an 80 cm runner at 300 cm long. One piece is in stock.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach patch is worked at a different knot weight, so the surface has physical relief and the pattern is something you feel through a sock before you look down at it. Nothing is dyed to contrast; the whole rug lives inside two neighboring tones, and the interest comes from the making rather than from the coloring. It falls in beside pale wood, linen and Scandinavian lines without any effort, and in a room that is otherwise all hard surfaces it is the one warm thing on the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe yarn is wool for the most part, cotton is in the body of it, and viscose turns up in some pieces. Indian weavers tie every loop by hand. Three things worth knowing before it is bought. Anything dropped in a kitchen works down into the gaps between knots and stays there, so the house steers people away from putting it in one. It collects lint and dust rather than repelling them, which sounds like a fault and works as an advantage — what the rug catches leaves the room in the vacuum. 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This one is cream with brown in it, handwoven in wool on cotton in India, 120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\"). There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlain is the hardest thing to weave well, because there is no pattern to hide behind and every irregularity in the yarn shows. What you get in exchange is abrash — the faint horizontal banding that appears where wool from two dye lots meets in one field, a shade apart and no more. On a patterned rug abrash is a flaw. On a plain cream field it is the whole visual event, and the brown here is what it has to play against.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was woven in India, wool over cotton, and the wool is thick enough that the pile stands rather than lying flat. At 120 × 180 cm this is a rug for one specific job: in front of a sofa, beside a bed, or under a small dining table for two. It is not big enough to organize a living room and it should not be asked to. Cream wool at floor level is honest work — it will need vacuuming more often than a dark rug and it will look worse than a dark rug between cleans. A professional wash restores it; nothing at home does. 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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":"hanzade-serisi-el-dokuma-cerceve-desenli-krem-hali","title":"Cream Bordered Hand-Knotted Silk-Blend Rug, Hanzade Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt handles like dress fabric rather than floor covering: Cream Bordered Hand-Knotted Silk-Blend Rug, Hanzade Series — 122 × 177 cm (4'0\" × 5'10\"), knotted in Türkiye, a cream field inside a classical border of earth and honey tones, with enough silk in the pile to make the surface move under the hand.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe cream is not one cream. Warm milk, faint beige and the thin lines of the weave itself come and go depending on where you stand, and the border — curved, classical, drawn in earth and honey — closes the field without hardening it. At this size the rug does not cover a room, it marks a place in one: under a bergère, along a reading corner, at the foot of a bed. That is what it was drawn to do, and it does it without asking for attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMonths of knotting go into a rug worked this finely, and the fringes at both ends are tied individually by hand after the pile is finished, which is the visible signature of that labor. The pile is heavy in silk, and that is where the fluidity comes from; rugs woven this way are made in smaller numbers every year. Underfoot it is light, warm and faintly slippery — worth knowing before it goes at the bottom of a staircase. It is a single piece, and washing is a specialist's job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye, with a silk-heavy pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream field with a curved classical border in earth and honey tones.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFringes tied one at a time by hand, after the knotting is finished.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMeasures 122 × 177 cm, drawn to define a corner rather than fill a room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLight and faintly slippery underfoot; think twice about stair bottoms and thresholds.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMonths of work in a single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA specialist washer, and no one else.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSit in the chair it goes under and you will end up touching it with a bare foot, which is the honest reason to own it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 122 X 177","offer_id":40809443229890,"sku":"HALHAN000011.01","price":130000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HanzadeSerisiElDokumaCerceveDesenliKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709566338"},{"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. 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This is the single piece at this size.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHereke, Uşak, Bünyan, Isparta and Sivas Zara all appear on it: five towns with five separate drawing traditions, set beside each other in one field. Nothing lines up, and it is not meant to — the seams between the panels are where the interest is, and the differences between one tradition's flower and the next are easier to see here than they would ever be on five separate rugs. It works under a monochrome room and equally under a room with six colors in it, because one of its own tones will always be somewhere on the wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wool is Anatolian and the rug is knotted by hand, knot by knot, on Turkish looms, which is where those six months go. Wool with its natural oils still in it takes a low sheen and improves rather than degrades underfoot. One thing to expect: the colors will read differently in your room than they do on a screen, because the direction the pile lies in changes the tone as much as the light does. 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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. 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The forms sit where morning fog sits, present but unfixed, and each time you look at the rug they have organized themselves slightly differently. Gray of this kind is the least demanding floor in a room — it takes a minimal interior, a contemporary one or an industrial one without arguing with any of them, and it puts everything else in the space forward rather than competing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll wool, and nothing else, knotted by hand in Türkiye. A wool pile with no blend in it is warmer underfoot than any mixed one and holds its color longer, though it will shed a little in its first months, which is normal for a new wool rug and stops. The blue-leaning grays keep the surface from going flat and the silver passages lift the light in a dark room. Vacuum it regularly. Professional washing for anything more than a vacuum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye, wool pile, no blend.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSoft abstract forms on gray, unresolved on purpose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue-leaning tones with silver passages that lift a dark room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e168 × 223 cm, a mid-sized rug for a sitting room or a bedroom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWarm underfoot, and it will shed a little at first, as new wool does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits minimal, contemporary and industrial interiors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRegular vacuuming; professional washing beyond that.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs that stay out of the way are harder to make than rugs that do not, and this is one that was made on purpose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Gray \/ 168 X 223","offer_id":44156598714601,"sku":"CALUSK000003.01","price":98000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaSoyutDesenliGriYunHali_1.jpg?v=1709557214"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-patchwork-desenli-rengarenk-hali","title":"Patchwork Anatolian Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Anadolu Şal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLook at it twice and you find something you missed: an evil-eye figure in one panel, a whole small story folded inside a flower in another. Patchwork Anatolian Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Anadolu Şal Series — 205 × 302 cm (6'9\" × 9'11\"), knotted in wool in Anatolia, in orange, yellow, navy and burgundy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe panels are drawn from towns that each weave differently — Hereke, Bünyan, Ladik, Isparta — so the rug is a survey rather than a repeat. Vivid oranges and warm yellows push against deep navy and burgundy without any of them winning, and because the colors were mixed for different traditions, no two of the reds are quite the same red. That mismatch is the thing to look for. Laid in front of a plain gray sofa the rug does all the talking and the room does none, and that is the setting it was drawn for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is knotted over months, row by row, by Anatolian women for whom weaving is still a trade. The wool is first-grade, which is why the surface has a natural luster to it and why it will improve rather than degrade with walking — wool with lanolin left in it responds to use. This is one of the last generations of a weaving tradition several hundred years old, and it is worth saying plainly that pieces like this get harder to find each year. Professional washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKnotted in wool by Anatolian women weavers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePanels drawn from the Hereke, Bünyan, Ladik and Isparta traditions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrange, yellow, navy and burgundy, with color that varies panel to panel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirst-grade wool with a natural luster that deepens with use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e205 × 302 cm (6'9\" × 9'11\") — a large sitting-room size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMonths of weaving per piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePut it under modern furniture and it will make the furniture look deliberate, which is not what most people expect a patchwork rug to do.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 205 X 302","offer_id":46030164394217,"sku":"CALSAL000211.06","price":225000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Colorful \/ 211 X 301","offer_id":46030164426985,"sku":"CALSAL000211.07","price":230000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Colorful \/ 120 X 180","offer_id":46633257795817,"sku":"CALSAL000211.09","price":78000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluSalSerisiPatchworkDesenliElDokumaYunHali_1_eec701d5-ac8c-478b-be2f-216d72d52abd.jpg?v=1713256502"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-krem-renk-yun-ipek-hali-315","title":"Cream Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool and Silk Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErzurum fleece and genuine Bursa silk, worked into the same pile: Cream Oushak Hand-Knotted Rug in Wool and Silk, Harem Series — 144 × 193 cm (4'9\" × 6'4\"), knotted in Türkiye, a cream ground carrying fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Uşak drawing in brown and honey.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream is the hardest ground to draw an Oushak on, because the pattern has nowhere dark to hide against. Everything here is legible: the branch turns, the flower heads, the way the border repeats without quite repeating. The silk sits in the highlights, so the rug is one thing under a window and another under a lamp, and the wool holds the rest steady while the silk moves. Beside walnut and unbleached linen it looks domestic; beside anything painted it looks considerably older than it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÇınhar Halı in Türkiye weaves the Harem series to patterns drawn for this shop, and the firm's own designs have taken prizes outside the country. Its fleece comes out of Erzurum, where enough natural oil stays in the wool to make it strong and bright at once. Its silk is Bursa silk, which now reaches very few looms anywhere. Both are tied with the Anatolian double knot, one knot wrapped around a pair of warp threads — slower to work than the alternative, and cleaner wherever a motif turns a corner. Send it to a washer who takes silk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by Çınhar Halı in Türkiye, to drawings commissioned by this shop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece wool with genuine Bursa silk in the highlights.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFourteenth- and fifteenth-century Uşak drawing, redrawn for a modern room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTied with the Anatolian double knot, around a pair of warp threads.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with brown and honey drawing, 144 × 193 cm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe silk changes the rug between daylight and lamplight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cream Oushak is the one that ends up in the room people are actually shown into.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 144 X 193","offer_id":44156943466729,"sku":"ÇINHAR000024.01","price":137000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaKremRenkYunIpekHali_1.jpg?v=1709557770"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-yun-krem-hali","title":"Cream Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 132 × 168 cm (4'4\" × 5'6\") this one is close to square, which is rare in a knotted rug and useful in a room that is: Cream Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series — knotted in Türkiye from Erzurum wool, cream ground, classical Uşak drawing worked at a modern scale.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA near-square rug behaves differently. Nothing about it points anywhere, so it will not tell you which way the furniture should face, and under a round table or in a square hall it settles where a long rug would look stranded. The drawing helps: the Oushak motifs are set out symmetrically, so there is no head and no foot to the piece. Cream keeps it light. The pattern is carried in warmer tones and is easiest to read from directly above, which is the angle a square rug is usually seen from anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErzurum wool is what goes into it, bright and soft and strong at once, which is a combination that rarely turns up in one fleece. The knotting is the Anatolian double knot, worked symmetrically around two warp threads, which takes longer per row and holds the drawing crisper at the turns. The whole rug was made in Türkiye. Contemporary readings of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Uşak motifs are what the Harem series is for, and this is one of the plainer ones. Professional washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye from Erzurum wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNearly square at 132 × 168 cm, with no direction to the drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSymmetrical Uşak motifs on a cream ground, drawn at a modern scale.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDouble-knotted around two warps, which sharpens the turns in the pattern.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece: bright, soft and strong at once.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits a square hall, a round table or a room without a long axis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSquare rooms are usually furnished as though they were rectangular; this is the rug that lets them stop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 132 X 168","offer_id":44156946252009,"sku":"ÇINHAR000064.01","price":110000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaYunKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709558552"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-usak-desenli-kahverengi-el-dokuma-hali","title":"Brown Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUşak, in western Türkiye, has been drawing the same family of patterns since the fifteenth century; this is a present-day reading of them: Brown Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series — 130 × 165 cm (4'3\" × 5'5\"), knotted in Türkiye from Erzurum wool, in browns and natural tones.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrown is the color the Oushak drawing was probably always closest to, and on this ground the motifs read as structure rather than as decoration — you notice the geometry of the branches before you notice the flowers on them. The palette stays inside the natural range, which means the rug does not compete with wood and does not fight leather. In a study or a small hall it does the thing a brown rug is bought to do: it makes the floor feel finished and then stops asking for attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÇınhar Halı wove it for Halıcızade — a house with international awards in rug design — and the series is theirs to make and ours to draw. Erzurum wool gives the pile its softness and its shine. The knot is the Anatolian double knot, two warps at a time, which is the slower method and the one that keeps a pattern edge from blurring. Genuine Bursa silk turns up in some pieces from the Harem series. Erzurum wool is what is named for this one. Professional washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye by Çınhar Halı for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum wool in the pile; Bursa silk appears in some Harem pieces but is not named for this one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak drawing in browns and natural tones, read as structure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Anatolian double knot, tied around two warps at a time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e130 × 165 cm, a near-square size for a study or a small hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSits with wood and leather without competing with either.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuy it when the floor is the thing that keeps looking unfinished, and it will go on solving that for twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Brown \/ 130 X 165","offer_id":44156949659881,"sku":"ÇINHAR000053.01","price":106000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliKahverengiElDokumaHali_1.jpg?v=1709558225"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-cizgi-desenli-kahverengi-yun-hali-1","title":"Brown Striped Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStripes are the least forgiving pattern a hand-knotted rug can carry, since every row of knots either lines up with the last or does not. This brown wool rug from India carries them anyway, ruled lengthwise in bamboo viscose over a matt wool ground, on a cotton foundation. Two pieces exist, at 163 × 240 cm (5'4\" × 7'10\") and 174 × 244 cm (5'9\" × 8'0\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe interest is in the contrast between the two yarns rather than between two colors. Wool absorbs light and gives back a flat, warm brown; bamboo viscose returns it, so each stripe reads as a band of shine crossing a band of matt. Walk the length of the room and the stripes brighten. Walk back and they go quiet. It is a single-color rug that does not behave like one, and it needs nothing else in the room to explain it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery knot was tied by hand, close together, which is what keeps thin stripes straight over more than two meters of length. The face is wool and bamboo viscose together, over a foundation of cotton. That the two pieces are not the same size is not an oversight — hand-knotted rugs are measured after they come off the loom, not cut to a specification, and eleven centimeters of difference is ordinary. 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Woven in Türkiye for Halıcızade by the Çınhar workshop, on the Anatolian double knot. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak — a weaving town out in the west of Anatolia — has been supplying this kind of drawing for five centuries: broad medallions, a field left generous rather than crowded, borders that frame instead of compete. The Harem reading keeps that architecture and loosens the rest, so the ornament sits apart with air around it. Where the silk runs through the motifs it answers light differently from the wool beside it, and the pattern seems to float a knot's height above its own ground when you cross the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fleece is Erzurum \u003cem\u003eyağlı yapağı\u003c\/em\u003e, the oily first-shearing wool that keeps most of its lanolin and therefore most of its shine. The silk is reeled in Bursa, which has been a silk town since the Ottomans made it one. Çınhar ties the pile on the double knot, the Anatolian method, and the piece was made for this house rather than bought in. 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It is a handwoven wool rug, 133 × 197 cm (4'4\" × 6'6\"), tied on the Anatolian double knot in Türkiye and made for Halıcızade by Çınhar, a workshop whose designs have won prizes at international rug competitions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream is the hardest ground to weave well, because nothing hides in it. Every knot of the ornament reads at full strength, and the border has to hold the field without darkening it. What the Oushak drawing gives at this scale is proportion — a small rug with a large rug's sense of interval, so the pattern never looks shrunk to fit. Silk appears in some Harem pieces where a motif needs lift; in a cream ground its work is subtle, and you find it by turning your head rather than by looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wool is Erzurum fleece, soft and bright and hard-wearing in that order. The double knot is the Anatolian technique the workshop uses throughout the series, and it is what holds the pile upright under a chair leg. A cream field is honest about a house: it will show a spill sooner than a dark rug does, and it should not go under a dining table for that reason. Have it washed by a professional and it comes back the color it started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye by Çınhar for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile from Erzurum fleece, on the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDrawing taken from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Oushak motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e133 × 197 cm (4'4\" × 6'6\") — a bedside, study or hallway size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSome rugs in the Harem series carry real Bursa silk in the motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA cream ground shows marks that a dark ground hides; keep it away from the dining table.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSend it out to be washed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn ten years the cream will have warmed by a shade or two, which is the one change in it that nobody minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 133 X 197","offer_id":44156952445161,"sku":"ÇINHAR000179.01","price":130000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709559233"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-bordo-hali-344","title":"Burgundy Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWestern Anatolia is where this pattern comes from. Oushak has been sending out medallion-and-border drawings since the fifteenth century, and this is a handwoven wool rug in burgundy that takes the old composition and reads it for a room built now. Tied on the Anatolian double knot in a Turkish workshop, made for Halıcızade by Çınhar.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurgundy behaves like two colors depending on where the light comes from. Under a warm bulb it goes red and forward; in daylight from a north window it settles back toward brown and lets the ornament do the talking. The Oushak scrollwork sits on top of that shift without being disturbed by it, because the drawing is built from outlines rather than from washes of color. Green appears in the smaller motifs, which is the note that keeps the whole thing from reading as one deep tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErzurum wool again, bright and strong, and the same double knot the workshop has used throughout the Harem series. Real Bursa silk turns up in a few pieces of the series — it is rare enough now that even the textile trade sees little of it. What burgundy will not do is disappear: this is a rug that decides the temperature of a room, and if you want the floor to stay quiet you want a different one. Professional cleaning; no bleach near it, ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in a Turkish workshop by Çınhar, for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum wool pile, tied on the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak motifs, redrawn rather than reproduced.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground with green in the smaller ornament.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReal Bursa silk appears in some Harem pieces — it has become scarce.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIt sets the temperature of a room rather than following it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClean professionally; keep bleach away from the pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single rug, not part of a run.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt sits well beside walnut and old leather, and it will outlast both if the double knot does its job.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Green \/ 131 X 172","offer_id":44156953133289,"sku":"ÇINHAR000213.01","price":111000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaBordoHali_1.jpg?v=1709559433"},{"product_id":"colorful-serisi-el-dokuma-vintage-desenli-mor-hali","title":"Purple Vintage-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Colorful Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe wool on this rug was never dyed. All of the color — purple, lilac, gray, cream — sits in the bamboo viscose worked through the vintage drawing, and the surface underneath is wool left unprocessed and undyed. It is a handwoven rug from the Colorful Series, knotted by hand in India, and it measures 200 × 290 cm — call it 6'7\" by 9'6\".\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a thick rug, and deliberately so. The pile stands high enough that a foot goes down into it rather than resting on top, which is the reason the series exists and also its one real limitation: at this height it will not clear a door that sits close to the floor, and a dining chair pushed back across it drags rather than slides. The vintage drawing is authentic in character rather than reproduced from any single region, and it works two ways — beside minimal modern furniture it supplies all the ornament in the room, and inside an already colorful scheme it holds its place without competing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton in the foundation, undyed wool across the face, bamboo viscose for the figures, and every knot tied by hand. The Colorful series is one of our own favorites in the catalog and is not a series you will find in many places. Leaving the ground wool undyed is what gives the purple somewhere to sit: strong color against raw fleece looks different from strong color against dyed fleece, warmer and less flat. Have it washed professionally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in India, with the knots tied by hand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUses undyed, unprocessed wool for the surface and cotton for the foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCarries the purple, lilac and cream pattern in bamboo viscose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHas a thick, deep pile — chosen for people who want the foot to sink.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMeasures 200 × 290 cm; a 170 × 240 cm (5'7\" × 7'10\") size is also made.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWill not fit under a low-clearing door, and furniture drags on it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNeeds professional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUndyed wool ages toward honey rather than toward gray, so the ground will warm up over the years while the viscose stays where it is.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Purple \/ 170 X 240","offer_id":44370742673641,"sku":"EKOCLR000006.02","price":25500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Purple \/ 200 X 290","offer_id":46029585842409,"sku":"EKOCLR000006.03","price":36000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ColorfulSerisiElDokumaVintageDesenliMorHali_1.jpg?v=1705917259"},{"product_id":"maison-serisi-el-dokuma-soyut-desenli-bambu-hali","title":"Purple Abstract Hand-Knotted Bamboo Viscose Rug, Maison Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cotton warp underneath; wool across the surface, with bamboo viscose kept back for the motifs — which is why the pattern stands at a slightly different height from the ground it sits on. Purple Abstract Hand-Knotted Bamboo Viscose Rug, Maison Series, knotted in India, in cream, lilac and purple running through one another.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe relief is the point. Raising the motifs a few millimeters gives an abstract drawing something to cast a shadow with, and the surface reads as layered rather than printed. Cream, lilac and purple are used at close values, so the effect is soft instead of graphic. It goes into a gray room without effort and holds its own beside a yellow sofa or a white sectional, which is an unusual pair of jobs for one rug to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHand-knotted in India at a close density, which is what makes a raised motif possible at all: a loose weave cannot hold two heights. The fibers are separate facts — cotton in the warp, wool in the field, bamboo viscose in the figures. Bamboo viscose has a shine to it and no tolerance for improvisation: a rug washer, not a machine and not a hose. Maison is carried in a small number of places in Türkiye and abroad, which is a fact about distribution rather than a promise about scarcity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, tightly enough to hold two pile heights.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCotton warp, wool field, bamboo viscose in the motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMotifs raised in relief so the drawing casts its own shadow.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream, lilac and purple at close values, intertwined rather than blocked.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSits in a gray room, beside a yellow sofa, or against a white sectional.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits living rooms, dining rooms, entrances and bedrooms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing; bamboo viscose does not tolerate home cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt suits a room that wants texture more than it wants color.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Mr \/ 135 X 190","offer_id":44157008314601,"sku":"EKOMAI000001.01","price":77000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mr \/ 180 X 240","offer_id":46030857076969,"sku":"EKOMAI000001.03","price":130000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Mr \/ 240 X 340","offer_id":46030857109737,"sku":"EKOMAI000001.04","price":246000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MaisonSerisiElDokumaSoyutDesenliBambuHali_2_06b780f4-436f-48d1-9344-f7cb65498f50.jpg?v=1715778357"},{"product_id":"obra-serisi-el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-kok-boyali-yun-hali","title":"Terracotta Anatolian Handwoven Wool Rug, Obra Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRoot dye first: the terracotta, green and yellow in this Obra Series rug come from plant dyes rather than from a chemical bath, which is why no two areas of the same color sit at exactly the same strength. Handwoven from wool on a cotton foundation, in a classical Anatolian drawing with a medallion at the center.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe field is Anatolian in the older sense — a medallion held in the middle, motifs stepping outward from it, borders repeating the same forms at a smaller scale. Root dyeing, \u003cem\u003ekök boya\u003c\/em\u003e, is the tradition of coloring yarn with madder, indigo and other plant sources, and its signature is a slow drift of tone across a woven field that weavers call abrash. Here the terracotta carries the medallion and the green and yellow work around it, and the drift is most visible where a large area of one color runs unbroken.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool takes the pile; cotton makes the foundation underneath it. The knots were tied by hand and set close together, which is what gives the rug a soft face and a hard-wearing back at the same time. It was woven in India, in the workshops that keep Anatolian drawing alive outside Anatolia, and it is a single piece rather than one of a run. Because plant dye is not fixed the way industrial dye is, keep it out of long direct sun and have a rug cleaner wash it instead of attempting it at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven, wool pile on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eColored with root dyes — the madder-and-indigo tradition, not synthetic color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTerracotta, green and yellow, with tonal drift across large areas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA classical Anatolian field with a central medallion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven in India.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKeep it out of prolonged direct sunlight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing is for a rug specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece, in this size and this coloring.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does root-dyed mean on a rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoot dye, \u003cem\u003ekök boya\u003c\/em\u003e in Turkish, means the yarn was colored with plant sources such as madder root and indigo instead of synthetic dye. 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A cream handwoven rug from the Safir series measuring 120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\"), its Oushak ornament carved by hand with shears once the weaving was finished, so every outline stands slightly proud of the ground. Woven in India at high knot density.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarving is what gives a flat drawing a shadow. A weaver goes over the finished pile and cuts down the ground around each motif by a few millimeters, so the ornament keeps its own height and the light stops at its edge. On a cream rug this matters more than on a dark one, because cream has no contrast to spare — the relief supplies the definition that color would otherwise have to. The Oushak motifs underneath are the classical ones, handled with a lighter hand than an antique would use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is knotted densely, which is the precondition for carving at all: a loose pile collapses under the shears and the line goes ragged. Wool carries the ground and bamboo viscose runs through the ornament, which is why the cut edges catch more light than the field does. Carved rugs need a little care in use — a vacuum with a beater bar drags at the raised outlines, so use suction alone. Have it washed by a specialist, who will know to brush the pile back into its relief afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in India for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Oushak pattern is carved by hand with shears after weaving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHigh knot density — the relief could not be cut into a loose pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool and bamboo viscose in the surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\"), a bedroom or study size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVacuum on suction only; a beater bar pulls at the carved edges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing, with the pile brushed back into relief.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThere is one of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does it mean for a rug to be carved?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce the weaving is finished, someone goes over the surface with shears and cuts the pile down around each motif by a few millimeters. 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Woven in Türkiye by Çınhar for Halıcızade.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFifteenth-century Oushak weaving is one of the reference points of the whole craft — the rugs that turn up underfoot in Renaissance paintings came out of that region — and what it contributes here is interval rather than incident. The motifs are spaced so the eye rests between them. Cream and beige sit a half-step apart, which means the pattern is legible in daylight and almost dissolves under a low lamp. That gap between the two readings is the piece's best trick and it costs nothing to enjoy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErzurum produces wool that is soft, bright and durable, and the workshop uses the first shearing. The double knot is Anatolian practice; Çınhar has taken prizes for its drawing at international competitions, which is a fact about the design rather than about this rug's construction, and worth separating. Bursa silk goes into Harem pieces where a motif needs to lift. 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A hand-knotted rug, 172 × 244 cm (5'8\" × 8'0\"), with a wool surface on a cotton foundation and red, yellow, blue and green banded across the field in repeating rows.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rows are the pattern. Each band carries a different set of small geometric figures, and the colors change from band to band so the rug reads as an accumulation rather than a single composition — closer to a woven record than to a design. Those figures come from the saddlebags carried on horseback across this region for centuries, where a motif had to be small, high-contrast and repeatable. Nothing about the palette is muted. Red and yellow do most of the work; blue and green cool the intervals between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe surface is entirely wool. Underneath it the foundation is cotton, carrying a very small proportion of synthetic yarn for strength — a detail the house prefers to state rather than round up into something purer. A rug this loud has an obvious limitation: it will not sit quietly under a room that already has pattern in it, and it fights curtains. Run a vacuum the way the pile lies; a wash every few years, done professionally, keeps the reds from going dusty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted on hand looms in Afghanistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool surface over a cotton foundation that carries a little synthetic yarn for strength.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBanded geometric figures from the saddlebag motif tradition of the region.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRed, yellow, blue and green, changing band by band.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e172 × 244 cm (5'8\" × 8'0\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIt will not share a room with other patterns; give it plain walls.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVacuum with the pile; a professional wash every few years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne rug; the next one will not be identical.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs like this get inherited more often than they get replaced, mostly because nobody can agree on what would go in its place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 172 X 244","offer_id":44157080273129,"sku":"BAYKNO000004.01","price":74000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkHali_1.jpg?v=1705752923"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-soyut-desenli-rengarenk-yun-hali","title":"Multicolor Abstract-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Nazar Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSix months at the loom, and often longer, is what one of these takes. It is a handwoven rug in all wool, 173 × 223 cm (5'8\" × 7'4\"), from the Nazar series — colored rings scattered across the field in an abstract arrangement, knotted in Türkiye to a drawing made for Halıcızade alone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rings are the whole design: circles of different sizes and colors set down without a grid, so the field has movement but no center. Behind that modern surface is an older inheritance, because the Turkish weaving regions each contributed something to how a motif is set on a ground — Isparta its fineness, Hereke its precision, Sivas Zara its warmth, Bünyan its steadiness. The Nazar drawing takes the placement instinct from all four and abandons the figures. What is left is color and interval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll wool, front to back, knotted by hand in Türkiye. More than six months of weaving goes into a single rug at this size, which is why no two of them come off the loom quite alike — the colors shift by a fraction where one dye lot ended and another began. That drift is not a flaw and should not be corrected out of the pictures. Because it is wool throughout, it will shed for the first few months. Vacuum lightly at first and let a professional handle a full wash.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, entirely from wool yarn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eColored rings on an open field, drawn for the Nazar series and made for Halıcızade only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMore than six months of weaving per rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eColor drifts slightly where dye lots change — a mark of the hand, not a fault.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e173 × 223 cm (5'8\" × 7'4\"), a living-room or bedroom size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNew wool sheds for a season; vacuum gently until it settles.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFull cleaning by a professional.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChildren read the rings as a game board within about four minutes of meeting the rug, which is worth knowing before you buy it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 173 X 223","offer_id":44659680411881,"sku":"CALNAZ000001.01","price":150000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/NazarSerisiElDokumaSoyutDesenliRengarenkYunHali_1.webp?v=1758883974"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-soyut-desenli-rengarenk-hali","title":"Multicolor Circle-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Nazar Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eNazar\u003c\/em\u003e is the Turkish word for the look that carries envy, and for the blue eye hung up to catch it. The series takes the name and not the emblem: this is a handwoven wool rug, 167 × 232 cm (5'6\" × 7'7\"), with multicolor circles across the ground, knotted loop by loop in Türkiye and drawn for Halıcızade alone.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCircles overlap here rather than sit apart, and the colors change where they cross, so the field has depth without any shading having been woven into it. It is a flat design that behaves like a layered one. The palette is warm on one diagonal and cool on the other, which means the rug looks like a different object from the two ends of a long room. Beside minimal furniture it supplies the only movement in the space; against a classical arrangement it is the thing that makes the room current.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool yarn, traditional technique, every loop set by hand. The regional inheritance behind the placement runs through Isparta, Hereke and Sivas Zara, though none of those figures survive into the drawing — what came across is the sense of where to put a shape. Weaving one takes upward of half a year. Strong color on wool holds for decades, but direct afternoon sun is the exception: give it a rug pad, turn it end for end once a year, and keep it out of a window's line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye from wool yarn, loop by loop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOverlapping multicolor circles, drawn exclusively for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWarm on one diagonal, cool on the other — it changes with your position in the room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOver half a year of weaving per piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e167 × 232 cm (5'6\" × 7'7\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKeep it out of direct afternoon sun and turn it once a year.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe circles are the first thing a room notices and the last thing anyone gets tired of, which is an unusual order for a pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 167 X 232","offer_id":44659680641257,"sku":"CALNAZ000002.01","price":150000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/NazarSerisiElDokumaSoyutDesenliRengarenkHali_1.webp?v=1759680726"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-kirmizi-hali","title":"Red Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Runner, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe yarn was dyed by hand, which is the first thing to know: no two dye pots ever match, so the red shifts from lighter to deeper down the length. A handwoven wool runner from the Mahal series, 76 × 310 cm (2'6\" × 10'2\"), knotted in Pakistan on a cotton foundation, cream Oushak flowers ranked along a red field.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe flowers run in rows the length of the piece, curling into one another as they go, so the drawing pulls the eye along the corridor rather than stopping it. A wide cream border takes the heat out of the red and gives the pattern an edge to end at. The Oushak motifs are the traditional ones. What the hand-dyeing adds is a horizontal banding that weavers call abrash — a visible change of tone where one batch of yarn ran out and the next began, and the surest sign that the color was not applied by machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool on the surface and cotton in the foundation, where a little synthetic yarn is present to keep the piece from stretching; the house says so rather than calling the rug pure anything. The double knot keeps its shape under traffic, which is what a corridor rug is asked to do. Seventy-six centimeters is narrow — it will not tuck under furniture and it needs a pad or it will creep on a hard floor. Wash it professionally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Pakistan, on the double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool surface, cotton foundation, a trace of synthetic yarn for strength.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eYarn dyed by hand — the red bands lighter and darker down its length.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream Oushak flowers in rows, held by a wide cream border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e76 × 310 cm (2'6\" × 10'2\"), for a hallway or a long kitchen galley.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNarrow enough that it needs an anti-slip pad on a hard floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a professional; keep detergent off the hand-dyed red.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single runner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy does the red change tone along the runner?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe yarn was dyed in batches by hand, and no two pots come out identical. Where one batch ran out and another began, the tone steps lighter or darker across the width. Weavers call this abrash, and it is evidence of hand dyeing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIs 76 cm a workable width for a hallway?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt suits a corridor of roughly 100 to 140 cm across, which leaves a margin of floor on either side. In a wider hall it reads as a stripe rather than a runner, and two pieces laid end to end look better.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Why does the red change tone along the runner?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The yarn was dyed in batches by hand, and no two pots come out identical. Where one batch ran out and another began, the tone steps lighter or darker across the width. 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The pile is deep enough that a foot sinks into it. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVintage here means what the trade means by it — a worn, softened field instead of a crisp one, with color arriving in patches rather than in outlines. Turquoise carries most of the surface, cream opens the ground beneath it, and gray sits between the two and keeps the turquoise from shouting. Bamboo viscose takes light differently from the wool around it, so the colored parts lift very slightly off a matt ground; the difference shows from standing height and disappears when you crouch down to look.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery knot was tied by hand. Wool does the surface, cotton runs through the foundation, and bamboo viscose is held back for the colored drawing — three fibers doing three jobs, named separately because they behave separately. This is one of the rugs the people here like best, and the reason is simply the thickness: at this depth the surface gives under weight instead of resisting it. The thickness has a cost. Grit works down between the knots and stays there, so a low vacuum setting, used often, is the whole of the daily answer. Anything deeper goes to a specialist washer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, knot by knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUndyed, untreated wool at the surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCotton through the foundation; bamboo viscose reserved for the colored motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA faded vintage field in turquoise, cream and gray.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep, soft pile — closer to a shaggy rug than a flat one underfoot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAt this depth grit settles down between the knots; vacuum low and vacuum often.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing when the time comes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece, with no second one behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet against plain modern furniture it supplies all the color a room gets, and dropped into a room that is already colorful it holds the floor down under everything else.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Turquoise \/ 145 X 200","offer_id":44157504815337,"sku":"EKOCLR000016.01","price":18000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Turquoise \/ 170 X 200","offer_id":46029587611881,"sku":"EKOCLR000016.02","price":21500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Turquoise \/ 170 X 240","offer_id":46029587644649,"sku":"EKOCLR000016.03","price":25500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ColorfulSerisiElDokumaVintageDesenliTurkuazHali_1_34465e5a-bfdd-4477-a93b-0d7eab4c55be.jpg?v=1738513796"},{"product_id":"geometrik-desenli-el-dokuma-hali-995","title":"Blue Geometric Handwoven Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFelted wool loops, set in by hand and left standing: that is the whole construction of this blue geometric rug, made in India in wool, with the pattern raised off the ground rather than drawn onto it. You register the relief through a sock before you ever see it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFelting mats the fibers together so a loop holds its shape instead of collapsing, and placing those loops by hand at different heights is how the geometry gets its edge. The blue takes both levels: raised work catches the light while the ground below stays in shadow, so the pattern remains legible in a room with one lamp burning. It is a modern drawing arrived at by an old method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool throughout, woven by hand in India. A raised surface makes a genuinely good floor for a child's room, because there is something to sit on and something to look at, and wool is warm underfoot in a way no flatweave manages. The cost of relief is that it collects: crumbs and grit settle into the low ground between the loops and want a vacuum with real suction behind it. Spills wipe off the felted surface, and anything worse goes to a professional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in India, in wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFelted wool loops set by hand, so the geometry is raised rather than printed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue, with the pattern read by shadow instead of by color contrast.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWarm and soft enough to sit on — it suits a child's room or a bedroom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGrit settles between the loops and wants a vacuum with real suction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWipeable for spills; professional washing beyond that.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost rugs are pictures of something. 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Cream Geometric Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Örge Series — knotted in India, mostly wool with a little cotton and sometimes viscose.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe knots are thick, nearer to stitches than to the fine work of a classical rug, and the geometry has been drawn at the same weight: large plain figures with space around them. Cream picks up whatever daylight is going and returns a low shine rather than a bright one. Against pale wood it is nearly invisible and entirely the point; on a dark floor it is a block of light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnotted by hand in India. The pile does hold lint and dust between its loops, and the practical consequence is that a vacuum lifts both out at once instead of chasing them round the room. Use a brushless head — a brush pulls at loops this size, and the head is the difference between a rug that keeps its face for years and one that does not. Bedrooms, corridors and sitting rooms suit it, and owners with animals report no trouble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, in thick loops rather than fine knots.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePredominantly wool, with small amounts of cotton and at times viscose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePlain cream with large geometric figures drawn at the weight of the knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits Scandinavian and rustic rooms, and natural wood tones in particular.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNot for a kitchen: crumbs lodge between the knots.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHigh wool content — not the first choice for anyone with respiratory sensitivity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVacuum with a brushless head; that alone adds years to the loops.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a rug people end up describing by touching it rather than by looking at it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EKO HALI","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 80 X 150","offer_id":44371003703529,"sku":"EKOJAD000172.05","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cream \/ 80 X 300","offer_id":46028986777833,"sku":"EKOJAD000172.04","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cream \/ 130 X 190","offer_id":46028986810601,"sku":"EKOJAD000172.01","price":15437.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cream \/ 170 X 240","offer_id":46028986843369,"sku":"EKOJAD000172.02","price":25500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cream \/ 200 X 300","offer_id":46028986876137,"sku":"EKOJAD000172.03","price":37500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/OrgeSerisiElDokumaGeometrikDesenliKremYunHali_2.jpg?v=1705912331"},{"product_id":"eko-hali-jade-cizgi-desenli-el-dokuma-hali-1076","title":"Cream Striped Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Örge Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe stripes are made of the loops, not of color: a cream hand-knotted rug from the Örge series, knotted thick in India, where the rhythm of the pattern comes from ridges of differing height across an even tone. High wool content, a little cotton, viscose in some batches. Five sizes are made; 130 × 190 cm (4'3\" × 6'3\") is the one most often taken, and an 80 cm runner reaches 300 cm. There is one of it left.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream at this weight of yarn does not read as pale — it reads as substantial, because the shadow between the ridges supplies the contrast that the color does not. The effect is rustic and modern at once, and it depends on the light: in raking afternoon sun the stripes stand up sharply, at midday they nearly vanish. Against oak, walnut or any floor where natural material is the theme, it completes the room rather than decorating it. Minimal and Scandinavian rooms are what it is usually bought for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery knot is tied by hand by weavers in India, and the density of that work is what you feel walking across it. Two limits are worth stating. Crumbs and grit find their way between the thick loops, so it is not the rug for a kitchen in daily use. And the wool content is high enough that Halıcızade steers anyone with respiratory sensitivity away from it — a pile of this weight holds lint and dust, which is also why vacuuming it clears the air of the room around it. Run the vacuum over it with the rotating brush switched off, and the loops will keep their shape for years longer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, thick loops tied one at a time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePredominantly wool, with a little cotton and viscose in some batches.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eStripes formed by ridges of differing height rather than by contrasting color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream throughout, with the shadow between ridges doing the work of contrast.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNot recommended for a kitchen in daily use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe house steers people with respiratory sensitivity away from it, because of the wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFive sizes in all, the largest 200 × 300 cm, with a runner 80 cm wide and 300 cm long.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo rotating brush on the vacuum; a rug washer for anything deeper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCustomers describe wanting to lie down on it, which is not a specification and is the most consistent thing anyone says about the Örge series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EKO HALI","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 80 X 150","offer_id":44371006193897,"sku":"EKOJAD000176.04","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cream \/ 80 X 300","offer_id":46028981502185,"sku":"EKOJAD000176.05","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cream \/ 130 X 190","offer_id":46028981534953,"sku":"EKOJAD000176.01","price":15437.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Cream \/ 170 X 240","offer_id":46028981567721,"sku":"EKOJAD000176.02","price":25500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cream \/ 200 X 300","offer_id":46028981600489,"sku":"EKOJAD000176.03","price":37500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/OrgeSerisiCizgiDesenliElDokumaHali_1.webp?v=1752655245"},{"product_id":"eko-hali-orge-serisi-el-dokuma-geometrik-desenli-antrasit-hali","title":"Anthracite Geometric Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Örge Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthracite is the near-black gray of hard coal, and on a floor it holds light instead of swallowing it — which is the argument for this Örge piece: a wool rug knotted thick by hand in India, with a geometric drawing worked into the loops themselves. Wool at a high proportion, cotton beneath it, viscose in trace amounts. Five sizes, the largest 200 × 300 cm (6'7\" × 9'10\"), with an 80 × 300 cm (2'7\" × 9'10\") runner alongside them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe natural yarn carries a faint sheen, so the dark ground lifts wherever daylight falls across it and settles wherever it does not. That is the difference between an anthracite rug and a black one: a black rug is a hole in the floor, and this is a surface. Geometric figures are picked out in the same tonal family rather than in contrast, so they organize the field without decorating it. On a pale timber floor the contrast is the point of the room; among minimal, Scandinavian or rustic furniture it is the weight that stops everything else from floating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIndian weavers tie each loop by hand, and the knots are left large enough to see and to feel. It collects lint and dust, and the sensible way to think about that is as a trade: what the rug takes out of the air comes out of the house when you vacuum. Grit and crumbs settle down between the loops, so a busy kitchen is the wrong room for it. A vacuum head without a brush on it is the one to use. Stock is down to one piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, loop by loop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePredominantly wool, over cotton, with viscose in trace amounts.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnthracite: a near-black gray that lifts under daylight rather than going flat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGeometric figures picked out tonally rather than in contrast.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eStrong contrast on pale timber floors; weight and warmth in a minimal room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNot for a kitchen in daily use, since grit settles between the loops.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFive sizes, from an 80 × 150 cm mat up to 200 × 300 cm, and an 80 cm runner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVacuum without a rotating brush; send it out for a deep clean.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStock is down to one piece, and a dark rug knotted this heavily is the sort of thing that gets replaced by a lighter one and then bought back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EKO HALI","offers":[{"title":"Anthracite \/ 80 X 150","offer_id":44371013992681,"sku":"EKOJAD000220.02","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Anthracite \/ 80 X 300","offer_id":46030221541609,"sku":"EKOJAD000220.05","price":15000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Anthracite \/ 130 X 190","offer_id":46030221574377,"sku":"EKOJAD000220.04","price":15437.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Anthracite \/ 170 X 240","offer_id":46030221607145,"sku":"EKOJAD000220.03","price":25500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Anthracite \/ 200 X 300","offer_id":46030221639913,"sku":"EKOJAD000220.01","price":37500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/OrgeSerisiElDokumaGeometrikDesenliAntrasitHali_1.webp?v=1752831880"},{"product_id":"safir-serisi-el-dokuma-mavi-usak-desenli-hali","title":"Blue Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Carved Rug, Safir Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlue Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Carved Rug, Safir Series: blue and mink held against each other across a densely knotted field, with the motifs carved down at their edges so the drawing stands above the ground. Made in India, running from 90 × 150 cm up to 135 × 200 cm — 2'11\" × 4'11\" to 4'5\" × 6'7\".\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMink is the color doing the quiet work. Blue on its own would be flat; blue against a warm gray-brown gains depth, and where the two meet the carving cuts a shadow line that neither color could produce alone. The Oushak motifs are the classical ones of western Anatolia, redrawn to a contemporary weight — narrower, less crowded, with more ground left visible than a nineteenth-century original would allow. At these sizes it is a bedside or entrance rug rather than a room-sized one, which is the scale at which the carved detail actually gets looked at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe knot structure is dense and the density is the point: it is what carries the depth of the detail and what lets the shears cut cleanly. Wool, cotton, bamboo viscose and viscose are used together — the wool for body, the two cellulose yarns for the lasting shine in the motifs. Hand knotting means each piece varies slightly from the next, and on a rug this small the variation is visible. Professional washing, and never a stiff brush across the carved edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India in wool, cotton, bamboo viscose and viscose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue and mink, with the motifs carved in relief after weaving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak drawing at a contemporary weight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA dense knot structure that holds the detail and takes the carving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven between 90 × 150 cm and 135 × 200 cm, or 2'11\" × 4'11\" to 4'5\" × 6'7\".\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEach piece differs slightly from the last, as hand knotting requires.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing; no stiff brushes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall rugs are usually bought to fill a gap; this one is worth putting where somebody will stand still and look down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 90 X 150","offer_id":45811513458921,"sku":"EKOSAP000012.01","price":40500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Blue \/ 80 X 290","offer_id":46029642662121,"sku":"EKOSAP000012.02","price":70000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue \/ 80 X 310","offer_id":46029642694889,"sku":"EKOSAP000012.03","price":74500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Blue \/ 135 X 200","offer_id":46029642727657,"sku":"EKOSAP000012.04","price":81000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EKOSAP000012YOLLUK_5_SafirSerisiElDokumaMaviUsakDesenliHali.jpg?v=1704978542"},{"product_id":"safir-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-krem-mor-hali","title":"Cream and Purple Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Rug, Safir Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOushak is a weaving town in western Anatolia whose big, loose floral drawing has been copied for four hundred years, and this is that drawing carried in cream and purple on a hand-knotted rug from India. 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. 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The relief has a cost worth naming: a carved surface is not flat, and a chair leg dragged across it finds the low channels. 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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. 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Green Abstract Hand-Knotted Bamboo Viscose Rug, knotted in India from cotton and bamboo viscose, in a large sitting-room size.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe transitions are what make it. Because the tones bleed rather than meet, the same rug can look like a wooded slope in the morning and like a lake edge in flat afternoon light, and the effect is stronger with sun on it than with a lamp above it. There is no border and no medallion, which is unusual enough to be worth stating: the drawing runs off all four edges. Beside modern, minimal furniture it stops the room from becoming clinical without introducing anything the room has to accommodate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton and bamboo viscose are knotted together on Indian looms, and the hand of it is soft and cool — closer to walking on grass barefoot than to walking on wool. Bamboo viscose is a cellulose fiber, which is where the sheen comes from, and it is what carries the color transitions cleanly. It is a rug for a room where nobody eats. Send it out for washing, and vacuum it in the direction of the pile rather than against it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India from cotton and bamboo viscose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGreen, cream and gray in soft bands, with no border and no central figure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe drawing changes character between daylight and lamplight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSoft and cool underfoot, with the sheen of a cellulose fiber.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA large size, suited to a sitting room or a bedroom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEvery piece varies slightly, because the knotting is done by hand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVacuum with the pile; professional washing when it needs more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost abstract rugs are patterns with the meaning taken out; this one keeps a horizon, and that is the difference.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Green \/ 200 X 300","offer_id":44157706469609,"sku":"EKOBMB000009.01","price":150000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaSoyutDesenliYesilHali_2_cd52747b-9894-4a73-b22f-d269096a7efa.jpg?v=1718110478"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-soyut-desenli-gri-pamuk-hali","title":"Gray Abstract-Pattern Hand-Knotted Bamboo Viscose Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSeen from a doorway it looks like a street plan: straight gray lines meeting at intervals, ordered but never quite regular, the blocks between them left empty. A hand-knotted rug, 200 × 300 cm (6'7\" × 9'10\"), in cotton and bamboo viscose, tied by hand in India for Halıcızade.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe grays are close together in tone, which is what keeps a geometric drawing from turning into a graphic. Line weights vary — some passages are drawn heavy, others thin to nearly nothing — and the asymmetry is what makes it a design rather than a grid. Bamboo viscose reflects, so one line can look lit from one end of the room and dull from the other; walk the length of the rug and the pattern reverses itself. Gray this neutral takes pastels and deep tones equally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton gives the rug its structure and bamboo viscose gives it its surface, which is spun from cellulose and handles more like silk than like wool. That has a consequence: a viscose surface takes a footmark and holds it until brushed, and it will not tolerate a household shampoo or a steam cleaner. Vacuum on suction with no beater bar. When it needs a real clean, it goes to a specialist who works with viscose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCotton structure with a bamboo viscose surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGeometric gray lines of varying weight, drawn without a repeating grid.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pattern reverses its light as you walk the length of the rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e200 × 300 cm (6'7\" × 9'10\"), wall to sofa in most rooms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eViscose holds footmarks until the pile is brushed back.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo household shampoo and no steam cleaner; specialist washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece, not a repeat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNeutral rugs get bought last and thrown out never, which is a poor sales story and a good ownership one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Gray \/ 200 X 300","offer_id":44157706895593,"sku":"EKOBMB000011.01","price":150000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaSoyutDesenliGriBambuHali_2.jpg?v=1718112542"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-soyut-desenli-mavi-bambu-hali","title":"Blue Abstract-Pattern Hand-Knotted Bamboo Viscose Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hand-knotted rug, 212 × 290 cm (6'11\" × 9'6\"), with a blue ground broken by passages of warm orange in an abstract arrangement that has no repeat in it. Cotton in the structure, bamboo viscose on the surface, tied loop by loop in workshops in India.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlue and orange sit opposite one another on the color wheel, and putting them in the same rug is a decision that either works or fails outright. Here it works because the orange is used at perhaps a fifth of the area — enough to warm the blue, not enough to compete with it. The transitions look accidental and are not; they follow the way color breaks up in water and in weather, which is to say irregularly but not randomly. Morning light finds the blue and evening light finds the orange, so the rug shifts twice a day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBamboo viscose is cellulose, spun and knotted like a silk substitute, and it is what gives the surface its shine. Cotton takes the structural load underneath. Because the surface is viscose it wants care rather than caution: no wet cleaning at home, no steam, and a rug pad so the foundation is not abraded from below. Every loop was set by hand, which is why the pattern wanders slightly rather than repeating — the drawing was carried in the weaver's judgment, not stamped out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, loop by loop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBamboo viscose over a cotton structure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue ground with warm orange running through roughly a fifth of the field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo repeat anywhere; the drawing wanders because it was carried by hand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMorning light brings up the blue and evening light the orange.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e212 × 290 cm (6'11\" × 9'6\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo wet cleaning at home and no steam; use a pad beneath it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBig abstract rugs are usually bought for the wrong wall color and then keep the room they were wrong for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Turquoise \/ 212 X 290","offer_id":44157717315817,"sku":"EKOBMB000001.01","price":155000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaSoyutDesenliMaviBambuHali_1.jpg?v=1705911075"},{"product_id":"patchwork-desenli-el-dokuma-hali-1157","title":"Pink Patchwork Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBünyan, Isparta and Ladik are three Anatolian weaving towns, and pieces of all three are in this rug. Pink Patchwork Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, 120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\"), was assembled in Türkiye from old hand-knotted rugs that were clipped down, redyed in pinks and stitched back together as a single field.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNothing on the surface repeats. Powder pink runs into rose, rose into salmon, and beige undertones surface wherever the original wool refused to take the new dye evenly — that unevenness is the point, and it is what separates a real patchwork from a printed imitation of one. The motifs underneath the color are much older than the color and were never drawn to sit together; a Ladik niche ends where a Bünyan medallion begins. Read it standing up and it is a pink rug. Kneel down and it is a dozen rugs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe process is specific: old rugs are collected across Anatolia, shaved to a shallow pile, dyed, dried and joined panel to panel with heavy stitching. Only the pieces that survive the shearing and the dye bath reach a finished rug, which is a quiet form of selection. The wool is old wool, already softened by years of use, and the seams are the part to watch — they are the strongest thing in the rug and also the first thing that will show if it gets dragged. Send it out to be washed by people who wash rugs for a living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAssembled in Türkiye from clipped and redyed hand-knotted rugs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMotifs from Bünyan, Isparta and Ladik meet on one ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePowder, rose and salmon pinks over beige undertones.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile, shallow from the shearing, with heavy stitched seams.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEvery panel differs; no two of these rugs are alike.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\"), which suits a study, a bedside or a narrow seating spot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing keeps both the color and the seams.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery piece in it was woven for somebody else first, and the rug is better for it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Horns \/ 120 X 180","offer_id":44158088052969,"sku":"HALPAT000007.01","price":16500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaPatchworkDesenliPembeHali_1.jpg?v=1704546035"},{"product_id":"geometrik-desenli-el-dokuma-hali-1942","title":"Multicolor Geometric Hand-Knotted Wool Kids' Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMade for a child's room and knotted by hand from wool in Türkiye: a multicolor geometric rug with a modern drawing, where the color does the entertaining and the construction is the same one used for rugs meant to last decades.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost children's rugs are printed synthetics with a short life expectancy. This is not one. The geometry is simple enough to read from the floor, which is where children look at rugs from, and the colors meet each other at full strength instead of in the pale scheme adults tend to choose for a nursery. Wool is the reason it works underfoot — it is warm to sit on, it recovers from a toy box being dragged across it, and it holds its shape after years of being crawled on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne thing to weigh before it goes into a nursery: it takes professional washing, not a machine. That is the trade for having wool rather than polypropylene, and in a room where accidents are routine it is worth knowing in advance rather than finding out afterward. The house also lays these in offices and on balconies, where the same colors and the same durability work without the laundry problem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted from wool in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eModern geometric drawing in full-strength color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool: warm to sit on and quick to recover its pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing — it cannot go in a machine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAlso used by the house in offices and on balconies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolor throughout, with no dominant tone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA child's rug that survives childhood becomes a study rug, and then somebody else's first rug.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 61 X 93","offer_id":44252128084201,"sku":"HALSAL000006.01","price":21000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/GeometrikDesenliElDokumaModernCokRenkliBebekveCocukOdasiHalisi_1.jpg?v=1709566985"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-cizgi-desenli-hali","title":"Yellow Striped Handwoven Wool Rug, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThin red lines run the length of a warm yellow ground, evenly spaced and never quite parallel — the horizon where sunlight meets earth is how the house describes them. Yellow Striped Handwoven Wool Rug, Mahal Series, 190 × 265 cm (6'3\" × 8'8\"), woven in Afghanistan and Pakistan with the Anatolian double knot. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the yarn was dyed in small lots the yellow is not one yellow. It moves half a tone across the width, and the red lines shift with it, which is the difference between a woven stripe and a printed one. Pastel and earth tones sit under both colors and keep the whole thing from going bright. A rug this size can hold a full seating group or run the length of an office, and in either place the stripes pull the eye down the long axis instead of into the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe double knot — two loops around a pair of warps, the technique Anatolia gave the trade — is what makes the surface firm. Wool covers all of it. Underneath, the foundation is cotton, plus a little synthetic yarn to stop the structure stretching, and the house names that content instead of leaving it out. The hand is hard rather than plush, which is why the rug keeps its shape and why the pile leaves so little depth for anything to work into. A rug washer, never a domestic machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven in Afghanistan and Pakistan with the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool across the whole surface, over a cotton foundation carrying a little synthetic yarn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWarm yellow ground, thin red lines, tonal shift from the small-lot dyeing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm and shallow rather than plush — it holds its shape.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e190 × 265 cm (6'3\" × 8'8\") — a salon, a study, a director's office.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eYellow at this warmth reads gold by lamplight and closer to lemon in the morning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnything beyond a vacuum belongs to a professional.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYellow is a color that most people reason themselves out of buying, and this is the one that survives the second look.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Yellow \/ 190 X 265","offer_id":44158139433193,"sku":"KERMAH000101.01","price":106000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiElDokumaCizgiDesenliHali_1_1d45d278-073e-4d73-99d1-37ed5cd8bbc8.jpg?v=1726920981"},{"product_id":"emirgan-serisi-el-dokuma-cicek-desenli-klasik-yun-hali","title":"Cream Floral Handwoven Wool Rug, Emirgan Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe middle of this rug is deliberately empty. 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":"geometrik-desenli-el-dokuma-hali-2098","title":"Cream and Brown Geometric Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo dye was used on it at all. The cream, brown and gray in this 175 × 242 cm (5'9\" × 7'11\") rug are the fleece's own colors, sorted by shade before spinning and then hand-knotted in Türkiye into a geometric field on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorking without dye means working with what the sheep provided, which restricts the palette to the range between white and near-black and makes the sorting as important as the weaving. The geometry is drawn in those natural tones alone, so the pattern separates by value rather than by color — a quieter effect than a dyed rug gives, and one that does not date, because there is no fashion in undyed wool. It is ethnic drawing rather than classical: angular forms, repeated at a small scale, with no medallion and no floral element.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool through the pile, cotton in the foundation. The colors will not fade because there is nothing in them to fade, which is the practical advantage of undyed yarn and the reason a rug like this can sit in a sunlit room without being turned twice a year. The limitation is the other side of the same fact: what you see is the whole range available, and it cannot be matched to a color scheme that needs a red or a blue. Wipe it as marks appear; a rug washer for anything more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKnotted by hand in Türkiye — wool pile, cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUndyed — cream, brown and gray are the fleece's natural shades.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e175 × 242 cm (5'9\" × 7'11\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSmall-scale ethnic geometry with no medallion and no border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNothing in the color to fade, so direct light is not a problem.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe palette cannot be extended; undyed wool has the range it has.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA damp cloth for marks, a rug washer once every few years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUndyed rugs get better rather than worse, because the only thing that changes about them is the light in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Brown \/ 175x242","offer_id":45752284512489,"sku":"KOYNAT000006.01","price":62000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/GeometrikDesenliElDokumaHali_1_128cd784-df81-4694-a192-04818ebf8d82.jpg?v=1705242565"},{"product_id":"etnik-desenli-el-dokuma-yun-anadolu-halisi","title":"Multicolor Sivas Zara Handwoven Wool Rug, Anadolu Şal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZara is a district of Sivas province, high in central Anatolia, and it gives this rug its drawing. Handwoven from wool in Türkiye, 121 × 170 cm (4'0\" × 5'7\"), multicolor, from the Anadolu Şal series — \u003cem\u003eAnadolu Şal\u003c\/em\u003e means Anatolian shawl, after the woven shawls the series takes its patterning from.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSivas sits high and cold, and its weaving is correspondingly firm: angular motifs, strong outlines, colors used at full strength rather than blended. The Zara drawing works in repeated bands and small filled forms, the shawl logic of a pattern that has to work at arm's length on cloth as well as at walking distance on a floor. Reds, greens and blues sit directly beside one another without a transitional tone, which is how Anatolian village weaving has always handled color and why it survives being copied badly so often.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool throughout, and the knots were set by hand. At 121 × 170 cm it is a bedside or a study size rather than a sitting-room one, and a small rug carrying this much color is best given a plain floor and left alone. Because it was worked by hand rather than from a printed cartoon, the motifs drift slightly out of alignment from row to row — that drift is the identifying mark of a hand-woven Anatolian piece and the first thing to look for. Professional washing, and no household attempt at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven from wool in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e121 × 170 cm (4'0\" × 5'7\") — bedside, study or entrance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pattern is named for Zara, in Sivas province.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnadolu Şal — Anatolian shawl — is the series the drawing belongs to.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFull-strength color with no transitional tones between fields.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe motifs drift row to row; that is hand weaving, not a defect.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere does the Sivas Zara pattern come from?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZara lies in Sivas province, in the central Anatolian highlands. Rugs woven there use angular, repeated motifs and unblended color, and the drawing sits closer to the geometry of Anatolian shawls than to the floral field of a workshop rug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does Anadolu Şal mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnadolu Şal is Turkish for Anatolian shawl. Halıcızade uses it as the name of a series whose patterning is drawn from woven shawl cloth rather than from classical rug design, and the series name is never translated on the product itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e\n{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Where does the Sivas Zara pattern come from?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Zara lies in Sivas province, in the central Anatolian highlands. 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Beige Framed Handwoven Wool Rug, Ottoman Series — Oushak motifs held inside a border, in cream, beige and gold, with Erzurum fleece through the pile and pure silk in the drawing. A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe frame does what a frame does: a border closes the field and the Oushak motifs sit inside it without spilling. Oushak, the western Anatolian town the English trade has spelled that way for two centuries, gave the world a particular kind of large, loose floral drawing, and the Ottoman series takes it and tightens it. Where silk falls, the drawing brightens — not everywhere, only along the lines meant to be read first. Cream, beige and gold is a palette that concedes to a room rather than instructing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wool is greasy fleece from Erzurum in eastern Anatolia, where the winters are long and the fiber comes off the animal with its lanolin still in it; that is the source of both the sheen and the resilience. The knot is the Anatolian double knot, symmetrical, tied across two warps, and better at holding detail than at holding speed. Silk is the expensive part and is used sparingly for exactly that reason. Hand it to a rug-washing workshop when the vacuum stops being enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by Has Halı in Türkiye and carried in the Ottoman series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum greasy fleece in the pile, pure silk along the pattern lines.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak motifs enclosed by a border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream, beige and gold — a palette that works in most rooms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven with the Anatolian double knot, which is symmetrical and holds fine detail.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe silk catches light along the drawing rather than across the whole field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only; one piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt reads as reserved until the light moves and the silk gives it away.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 130 X 200","offer_id":44158155817193,"sku":"HASOTT000111.01","price":160000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/OttomanSerisiCerceveDesenliElDokumaYunHali_1.jpg?v=1705156573"},{"product_id":"ottoman-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-ipek-yun-krem-hali","title":"Cream Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Silk and Wool Rug, Ottoman Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eErzurum, in the high east of Anatolia, is where the wool for this rug was shorn — the first shearing, the one that comes off with the most lanolin in it. Cream Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Silk and Wool Rug, Ottoman Series: historic Oushak motifs redrawn on a contemporary field in cream, beige and gold, with pure silk worked into the pattern. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA first-shearing fleece is finer and glossier than anything that follows it, and it is why this pile already has a soft light on it before any silk is added. The Oushak drawing has been opened out and simplified — the motifs still come from the old weaving of western Anatolia, but the spacing is modern, so the rug never reads as a reproduction of anything. Cream and beige hold the field; gold appears at the joins; the brown in the palette anchors the whole thing against wood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHas Halı wove it, and the technique is the traditional Turkish double knot, tied symmetrically across two warp threads. Silk is confined to the patterned areas, where it does two things at once — it takes color deeper than wool can, and it changes brightness as you walk past. This is not a rug for a dining table: silk in the drawing with food above it is a combination nobody wins. Silk is cleaned by people who know silk, and by nobody else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by Has Halı in Türkiye, with the traditional Turkish double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirst-shearing greasy fleece from Erzurum, with pure silk in the patterned areas.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak motifs, redrawn at contemporary spacing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream, beige and gold, with brown holding the palette down.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe silk shifts in brightness as you cross the room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBetter kept away from a dining table.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist cleaning. A single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool of this grade stopped being ordinary a long time ago, and a rug made from it outlasts the room it was bought for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 160 X 240","offer_id":44158156603625,"sku":"HASOTT000192.01","price":235000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/OttomanSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliIpekYunKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709379214"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-vintage-desenli-kahverengi-hali","title":"Brown Vintage Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe rug under the color is between thirty and eighty years old. Brown Vintage Hand-Knotted Wool Rug: an Anatolian hand-knotted piece, clipped down to a shallow pile, redyed brown and returned to use — wool on a cotton foundation, with the original motifs still legible beneath the new tone. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOverdyeing is a blunt process and that is its virtue. The old drawing does not disappear; it goes quiet, so a border or a village medallion reads as texture rather than as pattern, and the floor becomes one brown surface with something moving inside it. The brown is warm and slightly uneven, because old wool takes dye at different rates depending on what color it used to be. In a study with dark shelving it recedes; in a white kitchen it is the only warm thing in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs are collected across Anatolia, shaved to remove the accumulated pile, dyed, dried and finished. Anything weak breaks during the shearing and never reaches the dye bath, so what survives is by definition the sound part of what was made. The pile is shallow now, which means very little depth for anything to sink into and a vacuum that reaches the base of the knot. In the trade a rug of this age is called vintage — twenty to eighty years, by common usage rather than by any issuing authority. Vacuum it often, and leave water to a professional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven in Anatolia thirty to eighty years ago, then clipped and redyed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted wool pile on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWarm brown, uneven where the old wool took the dye differently.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTraditional Anatolian motifs still readable beneath the color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShallow pile — quick to vacuum, with no depth to trap anything.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuited to a living room, a study, an office or a busy public space.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing; one piece, and its age is part of what it is.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVintage is a trade word with no authority behind it, but here it means what it says: this rug had a life before it had this color.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Brown \/ 121X214","offer_id":45752271503593,"sku":"HALVIN000004.01","price":19500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaVintageDesenliKahverengiHali_1.jpg?v=1705145102"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-klasik-yun-hali","title":"Cream Oushak Handwoven Wool Rug, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 210 × 309 cm (6'11\" × 10'2\") this is a salon rug, big enough to carry a whole seating group. 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Under it sits a cotton foundation stiffened by a small share of synthetic yarn, and the house declares that share instead of calling the piece wholly natural. At this size it wants a room where it can lie flat and be seen — folded under a sofa it loses the garden. Professional washing, and no home remedies on a spill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Pakistan using the double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool surface; cotton foundation stiffened by a small share of synthetic yarn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream field of curling branches and small flowers; a red border of large blooms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-dyed yarn gives an abrash of ivory, beige and honey across the field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e210 × 309 cm (6'11\" × 10'2\") — a living room, a salon, an executive office.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLarge enough to take the front legs of every seat in the room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing only. 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