{"title":"Office Rugs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn office rug is a rug laid in a workspace rather than a home — a private office, a meeting room, a reception floor or a study. The rugs on this page are handwoven, loom-woven and machine-woven in wool, Tencel, viscose and cotton, in sizes from 80 × 150 cm (2'7\" × 4'11\") to 300 × 400 cm (9'10\" × 13'1\"), with runners to 90 × 500 cm.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn office floor takes a specific kind of wear: a chair on castors moving through the same 1.5 meter arc a hundred times a day, feet arriving from outside, and a room that has to look composed on a video call at eleven in the morning. This page covers what suits that, how to size a rug around a desk and a meeting table, and where the collection's 537 rugs actually differ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat an office floor asks of a rug\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA low, dense surface and a color that stays quiet. Everything else is preference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePile height is the one measurement that decides whether a rug works in an office, because a desk chair is the problem. Castors roll cleanly across a flat weave or a short, densely packed pile; on a deep or shaggy pile they sink, drag the rug into a ridge, and eventually tear at the point where the wheel turns. That rules out most of what looks comfortable in a bedroom and rules in loom-woven wool, flat-woven kilim and the tighter machine-woven constructions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe second constraint is color under artificial light. Offices are lit from above by fluorescent or LED panels with a cool cast, which flattens warm reds and lifts grays and blues. A rug that reads as terracotta in a showroom can read as brown under a panel light. The safest ground for a working room is a mid-tone — gray, mink, beige, navy — with the pattern doing the work rather than the color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat is in the collection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFive hundred and thirty-seven rugs, drawn from most of the house's series. Four groups matter for an office.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTempus Series\u003c\/strong\u003e — loom-woven wool, Halıcızade's own, in Oushak, medallion and worn-vintage drawing. Gray-mink, beige, blue-gray, black. The widest size range on the page, up to 300 × 400 cm, and the closest thing here to a conventional executive-office rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZade Series\u003c\/strong\u003e — loom-woven Tencel, viscose and bamboo, wool-free, in Oushak, Pazyryk and tree-of-life drawing at high color saturation: red, green, terra, blue. For a reception or a room that wants to be looked at.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNostalji and Taftan Series\u003c\/strong\u003e — loom-woven Tencel and viscose in Afghan-Turkmen, Yağcıbedir and vintage patterns, with a sheen that survives overhead lighting well.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHandwoven wool\u003c\/strong\u003e — Mihman, Anadolu Şal and Anatolian village pieces, one-offs in irregular sizes such as 174 × 234 or 205 × 302 cm. These are for a room where the rug is the point.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompare \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wool-rugs\"\u003ewool rugs\u003c\/a\u003e against \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/tencel-rugs\"\u003eTencel rugs\u003c\/a\u003e if the choice comes down to fiber rather than pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eSizing a desk, a meeting table and a corridor\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasure the furniture's working envelope, not the furniture. A desk occupies 160 cm; a desk with a chair being pushed back from it occupies 260 cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003cth\u003eWhere\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eSize\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eWhy\u003c\/th\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eUnder a desk and chair\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003e200 × 300 cm (6'7\" × 9'10\")\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eThe chair stays on the rug through its full range; the front legs of a visitor chair land on it too\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eA private office, rug centered\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003e250 × 350 cm (8'2\" × 11'6\")\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eDesk, chair and one seating position sit within the rug, with floor showing at the walls\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eUnder a meeting table\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003e300 × 400 cm (9'10\" × 13'1\")\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eEvery chair stays on the rug when pulled out — the single most common sizing error\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eReception or breakout\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003e160 × 230 or 170 × 240 cm\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eAnchors a sofa and two chairs without running under circulation\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCorridor between rooms\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003e80 × 300 to 90 × 500 cm\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eRuns the length with floor showing at both sides\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe meeting-room row is the one worth reading twice. A chair pulled back from a table travels about 60 cm; if the rug stops short of that, every chair in the room catches its back legs on the edge each time someone sits down. Add 60–70 cm to the table's footprint on all four sides and buy the next size up. For corridor work, see \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/hallway-runners\"\u003ehallway runners\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWear, and where it lands\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot evenly. In an office, three areas take nearly all of it: the arc under the chair, the meter inside the door, and the line between the door and the desk. Everything else stays close to new for years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo things follow. First, put a hard chair mat under the castors if the chair is used all day — it is the cheapest possible insurance, and it moves the wear off the rug entirely. Second, rotate the rug 180 degrees once a year so that the worn arc and the clean field trade places. A dense loom-woven wool pile hides this better than a smooth viscose one, because wool recovers after compression while viscose lies down and stays down where a wheel has crossed it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrit is the real enemy, not staining. Sand and street grit carried in on shoes work down to the base of the pile and cut the fibers from underneath every time someone walks over them. A mat at the door and a weekly vacuum without the beater bar does more for an office rug than anything else you can buy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCare\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost everything in this collection is tagged for professional washing, which is done flat rather than in a drum. That is the whole instruction. A wool or Tencel rug should not go into a washing machine — wool felts when agitated in hot water, and viscose loses most of its strength while wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween washes: vacuum in the direction of the pile without the beater bar, blot spills rather than rubbing them, and keep the rug out of a strip of direct sun from a south window, which fades a dyed pile faster than feet wear it. Plan on a professional wash every twelve to eighteen months for a rug under daily office use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFrequently asked questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat pile height suits an office with desk chairs?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLow and dense, or flat-woven. A castor rolls cleanly across a short, tightly packed pile and sinks into a deep or shaggy one, dragging the rug into a ridge and wearing it at the point where the wheel turns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat size rug goes under a meeting table?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAdd 60 to 70 centimeters to the table's footprint on all four sides, which for most boardroom tables means 300 × 400 cm. A chair pulled back travels about 60 cm, and a rug that stops short of that catches every chair's back legs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat size rug goes under a desk?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e200 × 300 cm covers a desk, the chair through its full range of movement, and the front legs of a visitor chair. For a private office where the rug should also read as a room element, 250 × 350 cm is the next step.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhich colors work best in a working office?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMid-tones — gray, mink, beige, navy — because overhead LED and fluorescent light has a cool cast that flattens warm reds and lifts cool colors. Let the pattern rather than the color carry the interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCan an office rug be washed in a machine?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo. Nearly every rug in this collection is tagged for professional washing, which is done flat and dried under tension. Wool felts when agitated in hot water and viscose loses most of its strength while wet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow often should an office rug be cleaned?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVacuum weekly without the beater bar and have the rug professionally washed every twelve to eighteen months under daily use. Grit carried in on shoes cuts the pile from below and is the main cause of wear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHandwoven or loom-woven for an office?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLoom-woven for a room with chairs on castors, because the weave is even and the sizes are standard enough to match a corridor runner. Handwoven for a reception or a director's room, where the rug is a one-off piece and the floor is walked rather than rolled across.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What pile height suits an office with desk chairs?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Low and dense, or flat-woven. 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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. 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Six sizes, ending at 240 \u0026times; 340 cm (7'10\" \u0026times; 11'2\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYa\u0026#287;c\u0026#305;bedir weaving is known for exactly this pairing \u0026mdash; deep navy in the field with red or burgundy holding the borders \u0026mdash; and for a drawing that is angular rather than curved, because the original was knotted and not painted. The version here keeps that geometry and adds gold in small amounts, which lifts the two dark colors apart. Against light furniture it is a hard, clean contrast; beside gray and anthracite it goes sober and formal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA loom lays the ground, and the fringes are the part no machine touches: they are tied one at a time by women in Oushak. The surface is Tencel\u0026reg; and the foundation is cotton, which is what gives the pile its shine and the rug its stability. It is not a hand-knotted Ya\u0026#287;c\u0026#305;bedir and is not offered as one. The pattern is the inheritance here, not the construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLoom-woven in T\u0026uuml;rkiye, in the Ya\u0026#287;c\u0026#305;bedir pattern of western Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTencel\u0026reg; surface on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeep navy and burgundy with small gold accents.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFringes tied by hand, individually, in Oushak.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSix sizes, 90 \u0026times; 150 cm (2'11\" \u0026times; 4'11\") to 240 \u0026times; 340 cm (7'10\" \u0026times; 11'2\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe pattern is traditional; the construction is not hand-knotting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt belongs in a room with books and one good lamp, and the angular drawing is what will still hold the eye there in ten years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"EKO HALI","offers":[{"title":"Burgundy \/ 90 X 150","offer_id":44372108837097,"sku":"EKONOS000043.03","price":10800.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Burgundy \/ 130 X 190","offer_id":46029054935273,"sku":"EKONOS000043.01","price":19800.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Burgundy \/ 90 X 300","offer_id":46029054968041,"sku":"EKONOS000043.07","price":21600.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Burgundy \/ 160 X 230","offer_id":46029055000809,"sku":"EKONOS000043.05","price":29500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Burgundy \/ 200 X 300","offer_id":46029055033577,"sku":"EKONOS000043.06","price":48000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Burgundy \/ 240 X 340","offer_id":46029055066345,"sku":"EKONOS000043.08","price":65500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EKONOS000043NostaljiSerisiMakineDokumaYagcibedirDesenliBordoHali_6.jpg?v=1704888195"},{"product_id":"anadolu-desenli-el-dokuma-kirmizi-ipek-klasik-hali","title":"Navy Anatolian Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 82 × 119 cm (2'8\" × 3'11\") this is a rug for one specific place — in front of a chair, at a bedside, on a wall: Navy Anatolian Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug, knotted in Türkiye entirely in silk, with classical Anatolian drawing worked in red, navy and cream. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk is what makes a size this small worth doing. A wool rug of the same dimensions would read as a mat, whereas silk holds detail at a scale wool cannot, so the motifs stay legible from standing height and the piece behaves more like a framed object than a floor covering. Navy carries the field. Red and cream do the drawing. Because silk reflects along the direction of the pile, the rug is bright from one end and dark from the other, and turning it around changes the color of that corner of the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was knotted by hand in Türkiye, in silk throughout, pile and detail both, which has become uncommon at any size. The finer the yarn, the more knots go into a square decimeter and the longer the weaving takes; that is the whole economics of a silk rug and the reason so few are made now. Direct sun will take the color out of it over years. Spilled liquid needs lifting immediately rather than eventually. Cleaning is specialist work. One piece, and there is not a second.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye from silk alone, with no wool or cotton in the pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Anatolian drawing in red, navy and cream on a navy field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSmall at 82 × 119 cm, sized for a chair, a bedside or a wall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSilk reflects along the lay of the pile, so the rug is light from one end and dark from the other.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSunlight is what will damage it; place it away from an unshaded window.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLift spills at once; cleaning is specialist work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece. There is no second one behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost rugs are bought for a room; this one is bought for a square meter of it, and will outlast the room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Navy blue \/ 82 X 119","offer_id":44252113764585,"sku":"HADIPE000001.01","price":250000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluDesenliElDokumaKirmiziIpekKlasikHali_2.jpg?v=1706092127"},{"product_id":"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. 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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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A white cowhide rug with black markings, from South America, 170 × 188 cm (5'7\" × 6'2\") at its widest points — the drawing is whatever that particular hide happened to carry, which is why it counts as abstract.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA hide is not a rectangle and should not be treated as one. It is widest across the back, narrows to the neck and the legs, and its edges curve; laid down, it breaks up the geometry of a room in a way no woven rug can, and it is usually best set at an angle rather than squared to a wall. The markings sit where they sit. Black over white in irregular fields, hard-edged, with no repeat and no symmetry — the closest thing in nature to a modern painting, and the reason hides ended up in rooms full of steel and glass rather than in period ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a genuine hide and South America is where it came from. The hair lies in one direction and always will, so it looks different from either end of a room, and it takes a few days flat to lose the memory of how it was rolled. Cleaning is dry: brush along the lie of the hair, and hand it to a professional cleaner instead of putting it in water. A hide will not tolerate being soaked. 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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. Wipe anything spilled straight away, and send it out for washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Anatolian wool on Turkish looms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePanels drawn from the Hereke, Uşak, Bünyan, Isparta and Sivas Zara traditions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMore than six months of knotting for a single rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e208 × 307 cm — a large sitting-room or dining-room size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool with its oils left in, which takes a low sheen with use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePile direction changes the tone; the rug will not look like its photograph.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWipe spills immediately; professional washing for anything deeper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the rug that will still be interesting on the day you stop noticing the furniture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 81 X 122","offer_id":44372084785385,"sku":"CALSAL000053.05","price":36000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Colorful \/ 127 X 177","offer_id":46030152597737,"sku":"CALSAL000053.04","price":81000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Colorful \/ 167 X 241","offer_id":46030152663273,"sku":"CALSAL000053.07","price":146000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":false},{"title":"Colorful \/ 208 X 307","offer_id":46030152728809,"sku":"CALSAL000053.02","price":235000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluSalSerisiPatchworkDesenliElDokumaYunHali_1_e0bec547-2b2b-4418-a63d-6c0fbce938af.jpg?v=1713194068"},{"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. 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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. 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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":"el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-hali","title":"Multicolor Anatolian-Pattern Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was woven in Afghanistan, on hand looms, by weavers working a motif vocabulary that runs from Anatolia across Central Asia. 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":"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. 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Burgundy Afghan Turkmen Loom-Woven Rug \u0026mdash; burgundy and navy with gold running through it, a Tencel\u0026reg; surface on a cotton foundation, made in eleven sizes, the largest 240 \u0026times; 340 cm (7'10\" \u0026times; 11'2\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBurgundy holds the field and navy edges it, and the small amounts of gold are what keep the two deep colors from closing into one. The motifs repeat in rows the way Turkmen weaving does, without a central medallion to organize them, so the effect is dense and even: pattern from standing height, separate figures once you sit down on it. Against light furniture it makes a hard contrast; beside gray and anthracite it turns sober.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe loom carries the body of the rug and a person closes the ends. Fringes are knotted individually by the women of Oushak, where the finishing for this series is done. Surface fiber: Tencel\u0026reg;. Foundation: cotton. 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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. 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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":"ottoman-serisi-cerceve-desenli-el-dokuma-yun-hali","title":"Beige Framed Handwoven Wool Rug, Ottoman Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis one was woven by Has Halı, a Turkish mill known well beyond Türkiye, and carries that mill's work rather than the house's own. 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":"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. Cream Oushak Handwoven Wool Rug, Mahal Series: a cream field drawn as a garden — curling branches, leaves and small flowers — closed by a red border of much larger blooms. Woven in Pakistan. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe contrast between border and field does the work. Large flowers around the edge, fine ones in the middle, so the eye enters at the frame and travels inward instead of stopping at the center. The yarn was dyed by hand, and the cream drifts through ivory, beige and a faint honey across the width — a variation weavers call abrash, and one no industrial dye lot produces. Red at the border warms the whole thing and stops a pale field from reading cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePakistani weavers using the double knot made it, tying across two warps at a time, which is what holds a drawing this fine together. The surface is wool throughout. 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. There is one of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs this size are usually bought for a room; this one is more likely to decide what the room does next.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 210 X 309","offer_id":44252119761129,"sku":"KERMAH000008.01","price":137000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliKremYunHali_2.jpg?v=1725891922"},{"product_id":"cerceveli-krem-el-dokuma-ipek-hali","title":"Cream Cartouche Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSilk rugs of this kind are the work of years, and only a handful of workshops still make them. Cream Cartouche Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug is tied six by six — thirty-six knots to the square centimeter — in pure silk, with panelled cartouche drawing in coffee tones over a cream ground and the pattern raised in relief. A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cartouche — \u003cem\u003epafta\u003c\/em\u003e in Turkish — is a closed panel inside a field, and the drawing sits inside it rather than running loose across the rug. There are several of them here, each holding its own motif, with shawl figures threaded between. The pile has been carved: outlines are clipped lower than the fields they enclose, so the pattern stands up from the surface and catches light along its cut edges. Cream carries it, coffee browns give the panels their weight, and greens move between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThirty-six knots per square centimeter is a moderate density for silk and a very high one for anything else, and it is what lets the relief carving hold a clean edge. It was tied in China, where silk weaving runs back in an unbroken line to the beginning of the trade. A few things to know: it wants natural light to show what it is, it should be kept out of direct sun so the colors hold, animals will damage it, and Halıcızade advises against a gray-toned room, where the cream goes dull. Cleaning is specialist work; the yarn will not take a home solution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in China in pure silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSix-by-six weave: thirty-six knots to the square centimeter.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCartouche panels in coffee tones on a cream ground, with shawl motifs between them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pattern is carved in relief and catches light along the cut edges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads best in daylight; keep it out of direct sun to hold the color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNot advised in a gray-toned scheme, and not in a house with animals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist cleaning only. One piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWalnut, marble and dark boards are what it was drawn against, and on any of them the relief does something a flat surface cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 204 X 302","offer_id":44158198710505,"sku":"SARIPE000012.01","price":930000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/CerceveliKremElDokumaIpekHali_1.jpg?v=1719139161"},{"product_id":"retro-serisi-el-dokuma-vintage-desenli-mavi-hali","title":"Blue Vintage Oushak Handwoven Wool Rug, Retro Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt looks like a rug that has spent forty years in the sun, and it has not. Blue Vintage Oushak Handwoven Wool Rug, Retro Series takes classical Oushak motifs into contemporary blues, then washes and dyes the finished rug so the color sits deep and slightly worn. Woven in Pakistan and Afghanistan. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Oushak drawing is intact — the large open medallions and angular vine of western Anatolia — but these are not historical blues. They run from a washed pale to something near ink, and the surface carries a shine that comes out of the post-weaving wash rather than out of the fiber. Under an office ceiling light it flattens into a single blue; in a living room with lamps set low it separates into three or four. That range is the whole reason for the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pile is wool from edge to edge. Beneath it the foundation is cotton, strengthened by a small share of recycled synthetic yarn, and Halıcızade prints that fact instead of hiding it — what a foot touches is wool and nothing else. Weavers in Pakistan and Afghanistan did the work, and the finishing wash came afterward, which is where both the luster and the slightly used look come from. Regular vacuuming keeps it; the rest is a specialist's job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Pakistan and Afghanistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool across the entire surface; cotton foundation strengthened with recycled synthetic yarn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak medallions and vine, redrawn in contemporary blues.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashed and dyed after weaving, which is where the depth and the luster come from.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe blues separate under low lamps and flatten under a ceiling light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRobust enough for an office or a busy living room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRegular vacuuming; specialist washing for anything more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlue is the color rooms are most often afraid of, and a worn blue is the version that stops being a risk.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 207 X 304","offer_id":44379187708137,"sku":"SAROVR000017.01","price":158000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/RetroSerisiElDokumaVintageDesenliMaviHali_1.webp?v=1753871212"},{"product_id":"saf-ipek-el-dokuma-hereke-desenli-klasik-hali","title":"Deep Red Hereke-Pattern Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDeep Red Hereke-Pattern Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug: a dark red ground scattered with the small repeating figures of the Hereke drawing, held against cream, with blue, green and gold sitting underneath the two main colors. Knotted entirely in silk, at eight to fourteen months of work per rug. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHereke is a town east of İstanbul that supplied the Ottoman court and gave its name to the densest Turkish weaving; the pattern is named for the place, and this rug carries the pattern rather than the provenance — it was knotted in China. The scattered form, \u003cem\u003eserpme\u003c\/em\u003e, spreads small motifs evenly across the field instead of building toward a central medallion, which is why a red this dark never becomes heavy. The undertones do the rest. Blue and green cool the red where it would otherwise dominate, and gold marks the places the eye is meant to stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEight to fourteen months for one rug is a working figure rather than a boast, and silk at this fineness is the explanation. Silk holds its brightness under wear better than any other rug fiber, and the pile is thin, so a rug like this shows its drawing rather than its depth. Practical matters, all stated by the house: keep it out of direct sunlight or the reds will lift, turn it end for end from time to time so it wears evenly, and keep it away from cats. Cleaning is for a silk specialist; a general rug washer is not enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in China in pure silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBetween eight and fourteen months of weaving for a single rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep red ground with cream, in the scattered \u003cem\u003eserpme\u003c\/em\u003e Hereke drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue, green and gold undertones set beneath the two dominant colors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKeep it out of direct sun; turn it end for end so it wears evenly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSilk is easily damaged by animals; place it accordingly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning by a silk specialist. There is one of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed rooms are rare because red is difficult, and a floor like this is the argument for trying one anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 170 X 251","offer_id":44158202216681,"sku":"SARIPE000005.01","price":795000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/SafIpekElDokumaHerekeDesenliKlasikHali_1.jpg?v=1709633913"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-pamuk-yun-hali","title":"Black Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMahal Series handwoven wool rug, 182 × 265 cm (6'0\" × 8'8\"): cream and earth-toned flowers opening across a black ground, inside a wide border drawn in warm red. Wool surface, cotton foundation, tied in Pakistan with the Anatolian double knot. A single piece, and the size is its own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlack is the hardest ground to read, and this one is not a single black. The dyeing is not industrial, so the ground carries several tones at once and the flowers sit on a surface that moves rather than a flat one. In low light the black closes and the composition reduces to the red border; by day the pale work in the field comes up and the rug looks lighter than it is. The border is wide enough to pull the eye inward, which is the whole job of an Oushak border and the reason the center holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything you touch is wool. Underneath, the foundation is cotton with a small proportion of synthetic yarn added for strength — the house states that rather than calling the rug all-natural. The weavers in Pakistan work the Anatolian double knot, the tighter of the two, and it gives the rug a firm, not-quite-thick handle. That firmness is what keeps a rug this size flat under furniture for decades. It cleans easily and it should be cleaned by a rug washer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Pakistan using the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool across the entire surface, over a cotton foundation stiffened with a little synthetic yarn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream and earth-tone flowers on black, framed by a warm red border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNon-industrial dyeing, which is why the black holds more than one tone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e182 × 265 cm (6'0\" × 8'8\"); one piece at this size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm rather than thick, so it stays flat under weight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePut it in a study with walnut and it belongs to the room; put it under white walls and it becomes the only dark thing in sight.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Black \/ 182 X 265","offer_id":44158220140777,"sku":"KERMAH000020.01","price":102000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliYunHali_1_82992e1c-df52-4ef5-b0af-89706ac93ae9.jpg?v=1726914853"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-mor-madalyon-desenli-ipek-yatak-odasi-halisi","title":"Purple Medallion Hand-Knotted Pure Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hundred knots to the square centimetre, which is a million to the square metre, every one of them tied by hand. This is a hand-knotted pure silk rug with a purple Oushak medallion at its center — warp, weft and pile all silk — woven in China over more than a year. Only a few pieces in this palette exist in Türkiye.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe medallion is the Oushak kind: one large centerpiece with the border repeating its logic in miniature the whole way round. Purple runs from a saturated tone at the middle out into pale lilac, the contrast pitched high enough that the drawing reads from across a room. Purple was the palace color for most of recorded history because the dye was scarce, and a purple silk rug still carries the association whether or not anyone thinks about it. Under a lamp the silk changes value as you move; from the far side of the room the same field looks two shades lighter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk from the Chinese mills and nothing else in it — the warps and the wefts are silk as well as the pile, which is what allows a knot count this high. At a hundred knots per square centimetre the fabric ends up about as thin and as light as a handkerchief; it gathers into two hands. More than a year went into it. Silk is the least forgiving fiber in a rug: keep it out of direct sun, lift anything spilled immediately rather than letting it sit, and let a specialist do the washing. It is also one of the pieces the people in the shop stop at most often, which has as much to do with the depth of the purple as with the shine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in China, where silk weaving has been continuous for centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePure silk: warp, weft and pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAbout 100 knots per square centimetre — roughly a million to the square metre.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePurple through pale lilac, on an Oushak medallion composition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThin and light in the hand, close to the weight of a handkerchief.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMore than a year at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOnly a handful of examples in this color range exist in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing, and away from direct sun.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does a hundred knots per square centimetre actually mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt means roughly a million hand-tied knots in every square metre of the rug. That density is rare, and it is what lets a silk pile hold fine drawing — the smaller the knot, the smaller the detail a weaver can place without it blurring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIs this rug pure silk, or silk-faced?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePure silk throughout. The warps and wefts of the foundation are silk as well as the pile, which is unusual; most silk rugs are knotted on a cotton foundation and only the surface is silk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow should a pure silk rug be cleaned?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy a specialist, and not otherwise. 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Cream Pure Silk Hand-Knotted Classic Rug \u0026mdash; 100% silk, knotted in China at 207 \u0026times; 303 cm (6'9\" \u0026times; 9'11\"), a cream ground carrying a classical medallion and frame drawn in gold, with thirty-six knots in every square centimeter.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSilk is what makes the drawing possible. A wool pile cannot hold a line this fine, so the leaves inside the medallion are drawn a knot or two wide and still read as leaves. The ground is cream and the figures are a yellow-gold that changes weight through the day: bright and almost metallic with the sun on it, warm and matte by lamplight, and different again if you walk to the other end of the room and look back along the pile rather than into it. That reversal is the property people buy silk for, and it is why the same rug photographs as two colors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo weavers work a piece like this together, one on each half, and thirty-six knots per square centimeter is the rate that makes a year and a half of work necessary. China is where silk weaving began and it is still where the finest silk pile is knotted. Some honesty about living with it: silk is a delicate surface, cats will find it, and it cannot be cleaned at home \u0026mdash; a rug washer who works with silk is the only correct answer. 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The design is centuries old; the palette is not. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePastel green is not a color the Oushak workshops ever used, and putting it under a traditional drawing is the whole idea of the Retro series. What survives from the original is the structure — field, medallion logic, banded border — and what changes is the temperature. Green at this softness sits quietly beside gray and pale wood, and it stops a classical rug from making a room look older than it is. Against a dark floor the pattern reads more clearly than the color does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe surface you walk on is wool, all of it. In the foundation there is cotton and a trace of recycled synthetic yarn, put there for strength, and the house says so rather than describing the rug as all-natural. It was tied by weavers in Pakistan and Afghanistan, where wool work at this quality has held on longer than it has in Türkiye. Rugs off those looms are known for lasting; the trade-off is that they are firm underfoot rather than soft. 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A handwoven wool rug, classical Oushak motifs in a modern green, worked by hand in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere the series normally softens a traditional design, this one deepens it. The green sits at the dark end of the range and the drawing lives inside it rather than on top, so the pattern arrives after the color does. The shine comes from the wool itself and from how tightly the rug is woven, and it changes with the angle you stand at, which gives a flat floor some depth. In a room of dark furniture it adds weight instead of contrast, and that is the harder thing for a rug to do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDense weaving is the characteristic of this quality — the knots are packed close, which is why the rug feels solid rather than yielding. Wool is the whole of the surface. Underneath it, cotton takes the structure, and a trace of recycled synthetic yarn is spun into that foundation to strengthen it — stated here rather than left out. Small enough for a study or a bedside, hard-wearing enough for a corridor. 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Wool pile over a cotton foundation, cream and navy carried through the drawing. A single piece; rugs at this scale are not woven often.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBukhara is the Turkmen design family: rows of repeating octagonal motifs, geometric before anything else, with vegetal work filling the spaces between them. Here the ground is burgundy, deep and even; cream does the outlining, and navy supplies the third depth. The composition has no single center, which is exactly what a very large rug needs, because a medallion at this scale would swallow the room. Walnut and brown-to-orange furnishings pick it up, and so does black or tan leather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pile is wool of the first grade, soft enough that the rug reads lighter than its weight; cotton sits underneath, and it is the only thing keeping a rug of this size from becoming unmanageable. Afghanistan is now among the few places where hand-knotting at this quality and this scale still happens at all, and the weaving is slow. It should be professionally washed; a rug this size is not a home job in any sense of the phrase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Afghanistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTurkmen and Afghan Bukhara motifs — geometric, with vegetal filling between them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground, cream outlining, navy for depth.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLarge format, suited to hotel entrances, halls and big rooms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo central medallion, so the pattern holds at any viewing distance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs this big tend to outlast the buildings they were bought for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Burgundy \/ 357 X 522","offer_id":44158292820201,"sku":"HALAFG000001.01","price":500000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/el-dokuma-klasik-tasarim-bordo-afgan-khamyap-hali-37994.jpg?v=1697203381"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-yagcibedir-desenli-kirmizi-klasik-hali","title":"Red Yağcıbedir Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYağcıbedir is one of the Yörük patterns still being knotted today, and its palette is fixed rather than chosen: burgundy, navy and white, in that order. This is a hand-knotted wool Yağcıbedir rug made in Türkiye, 120 \u0026times; 220 cm (3'11\" \u0026times; 7'3\"), red-grounded and drawn the traditional way. Single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat makes a Yağcıbedir recognizable across a room is that restriction. Three colors, no more, so the drawing has to carry everything \u0026mdash; the field is dark and dense with small geometric figures, the navy border encloses it, and the white appears only in the outlines and in the smallest elements, doing a job a fourth color would otherwise have to be brought in for. Set against walnut or any warm timber the burgundy deepens; put it in a room of pale furniture and the navy is what you notice first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool from end to end, tied by hand in Türkiye. A Yörük pattern is a nomadic one, carried by weavers rather than by workshops, which is why the same design comes out slightly differently every time and why no two of these line up motif for motif. Everyday cleaning is a wipe with white soapy water; beyond that it goes to a professional. At 120 \u0026times; 220 cm it is a useful shape rather than a grand one \u0026mdash; a hallway, a bedroom side, or the space in a sitting room between two chairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in wool in Türkiye, 120 \u0026times; 220 cm (3'11\" \u0026times; 7'3\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eYağcıbedir, one of the Yörük pattern groups, in its fixed burgundy, navy and white.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDense geometric field inside a navy border, with white used only for outlines.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits walnut and other warm timber; the navy leads in a pale room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWipe with white soapy water; professional washing for anything more.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNomadic patterns vary weaver by weaver, so no two examples match exactly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLiving room, entrance hall or bedroom, on the house's own reading.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWalking on wool polishes it, and a Yağcıbedir is one of the few drawings that gains from the sheen instead of dissolving into it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 120 X 220","offer_id":44158315331817,"sku":"MZTYAB000002.01","price":64000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/products\/yagcibedir-desenli-el-dokuma-hali-20414.jpg?v=1689701087"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-cicek-desenli-bordo-yun-hali","title":"Burgundy Floral Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA burgundy hand-knotted wool rug, 124 \u0026times; 180 cm (4'1\" \u0026times; 5'11\"), knotted by hand in India over a cotton foundation, carrying a classical floral field held inside a drawn frame. The weave is close and firm enough that you feel it before you see it, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurgundy is a ground that decides a room rather than fitting into one. The flowers sit on it in lighter tones and the frame closes them in on all four sides, which is what keeps a classical pattern from spilling and is why the piece reads as finished rather than as a section cut out of something larger. Under a lamp the red moves toward brown; in daylight it comes back to red, and the pale floral work is what changes least between the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHand-knotted in India: the pile is wool and the foundation beneath it is cotton. Tight, firm weaving is the whole of the argument for this one \u0026mdash; press a thumb into it and it barely gives, which is what a rug needs if it is going to be walked on for twenty years rather than five. The straight caution: at 124 \u0026times; 180 cm this is not a rug that will fill a living room, and it works best where it can be seen whole, in front of a fireplace, beside a bed, or in an entrance. 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Made by hand in Türkiye, wool over cotton, multicolored, with Anatolian motifs drawn the width of the field. Sandık eskisi: it was made for a chest and kept in one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnatolian village drawing does not organize itself around a single medallion the way a workshop rug does. Figures are set out in rows and columns, each one complete in itself, and the borders repeat a smaller version of what is going on inside. Because the weaver worked from count rather than from a cartoon, the columns drift slightly out of true as the rug rises \u0026mdash; that drift is the signature of hand work, and it is what to check first on a rug of this kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool pile on a cotton foundation, which is the combination that lets a rug of five and a half square meters stay flat instead of rippling. 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Professional washing, by someone used to older wool.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye, 194 \u0026times; 278 cm (6'4\" \u0026times; 9'1\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored Anatolian drawing, set out in rows rather than around a medallion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe columns drift slightly, because it was counted rather than traced.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSandık eskisi \u0026mdash; made for a chest and kept there.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFold creases and compressed pile along the folds; both settle with use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo age is claimed for it, and trade age terms are unregulated conventions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFive and a half square meters of hand-knotting is what a household used to save for, and this one was saved rather than spent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 194 X 278","offer_id":44216039735529,"sku":"MZTAND000004.01","price":81000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluDesenliElDokumaSandikEskisiHali_1.webp?v=1765636372"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-ipek-vintage-desenli-mavi-hali","title":"Blue Vintage-Pattern Hand-Knotted Silk and Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt carries the mark of Jaipur, a weaving house known worldwide for its design, and that is why the rug is not anonymous. 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Nothing about the surface is uniform, and that irregularity is evidence of hand work rather than a fault in it: the same design woven twice would not come out the same way twice. It belongs somewhere it will be looked at: a sitting room, a large entrance hall, a study. Professional cleaning, and nothing left wet on the silk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India and signed by the Jaipur weaving house.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReal silk worked through the pattern, over wool and cotton.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA rare blue-green range that shifts between the two by light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWatered, moiré-like surface produced by the weaving technique itself.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVintage drawing derived from Anatolian designs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeliberately uneven surface — the mark of hand weaving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning; nothing left wet on the silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the kind of rug that decides the color of everything else in the room, and it should be bought knowing that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 201 X 297","offer_id":47386578977001,"sku":"EKOORI000002.01","price":240000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaIpekliVintageDesenliMaviHali_1.webp?v=1762779369"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-hoca-rosnai-afgan-desenli-hali","title":"Burgundy Hoca Roşnai Hand-Knotted Afghan Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo named patterns run through it: Buhara, the star, and Kel İsa. Both were set down from memory — no cartoon, no template — by weavers in northern Afghanistan, most of them women working at home. A hand-knotted rug in burgundy and navy, wool on cotton, 200 × 290 cm (6'7\" × 9'6\"). One of one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeometric forms interlock across the whole field, and because the drawing came out of the weaver's head rather than off a page, the repeats shift by a knot here and there. That drift is the rug. Burgundy dominates and navy holds the structure beneath it, the traditional Afghan pairing and the reason these pieces sit so easily beside wood and cream. Nothing in the composition is centered; the pattern simply continues, and it can be cut at any edge without looking cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHoca Roşnai is a quality designation rather than a place — within Afghan weaving it names the highest grade for both yarn and knot density, and this rug is one. Wool pile, cotton foundation, hundreds of thousands of knots. A piece of roughly six square metres at this grade takes months of continuous work. It has to be washed by a professional. In a modern room it is the one traditional object; in a traditional one it disappears usefully into the whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in northern Afghanistan, largely by women working at home.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHoca Roşnai grade — the finest yarn and knot density in Afghan weaving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBuhara star and Kel İsa motifs, set down from memory without a cartoon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy and navy, the traditional Afghan pairing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e200 × 290 cm (6'7\" × 9'6\"), and months of work at this grade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does Hoca Roşnai mean on an Afghan rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a quality grade rather than a region. Within Afghan weaving it designates the finest yarn and the highest knot density available, and rugs carrying it are among the most valued the country produces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat are the Buhara and Kel İsa patterns?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuhara is the Turkmen star, an octagonal motif repeated in rows across the field. Kel İsa is a second traditional Afghan design worked alongside it. Both are geometric, and both were woven here from memory rather than from a drawn cartoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy is the pattern slightly irregular?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause no template was used. The weaver carried the design in her head and set it down knot by knot, so the repeats shift a little from row to row. 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Hand-knotted in cotton, viscose and silk in China. One of one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe center reads like a garden seen from above — the layers of blue and beige interleave closely enough that the pattern keeps opening the longer it is looked at. The frame around it does more than close the edge: the turquoise and gold worked into the cream set the character of the whole piece, and without them the red would simply be loud. Symmetry holds everything in place. The surface plays with light through the day and moves between bright and matt as the sun does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton, viscose and silk together, tied entirely by hand — hundreds of thousands of knots in a rug this size, which is what fine drawing at small scale requires. The pile is thin and the whole piece is light. Red on the floor brings warmth into a room, and the blue and beige stop it short of dominating. 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A hand-knotted Oushak rug with a deep burgundy field and beige and gold-yellow along its edges, wool over a Manchester cotton foundation, woven in India at a high knot density. It is a large piece and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak is the western Anatolian pattern family that Europe collected for four centuries, and this version keeps its proportions: an open burgundy center that takes the weight, and borders where beige and gold do the work of lighting it. The yellow and cream passages give off enough brightness to lift the room around them. A dark-fielded rug usually makes a room darker; this one does the opposite. Walnut and gray furnishings take it without argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe foundation is Manchester cotton — a long-staple yarn, brighter and stronger than the standard grade, used here for the warps. Wool goes into the wefts and the pile. High knot density is what allows classical drawing to stay sharp, and it is what makes eight to ten months a realistic figure rather than a boast. Weaving of this kind moved from Türkiye to India as Anatolian hand-knotting contracted. Keep chemicals away from it, keep it out of direct sun, and leave the cleaning to a specialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, at a high knot count.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eManchester cotton warps; wool wefts and pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep burgundy field with beige and gold-yellow borders.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEight to ten months at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLarge enough for a salon, a hotel entrance or the floor beneath a piano.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak drawing, the pattern Europe collected for four centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAway from direct sun, no chemicals, specialist cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is Manchester cotton?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA long-staple cotton yarn of higher grade than standard cotton, with more shine and more strength. 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The same density is why these rugs get passed down instead of replaced: the structure outlasts the fashion. Keep it away from chemicals and let people who clean rugs for a living clean it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, to a design once woven in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eManchester cotton spine; wool on the surface and through the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep, bright reds balanced by brown and tan earth tones.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTight, high-count knotting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEight to ten months at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads as inevitable under heavy classical furniture, and as the one cultural object in a plain room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo chemicals; cleaning by professionals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern is in the classical literature, which means somebody will still recognize it a century from now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 366X277","offer_id":45712733634793,"sku":"BOZSAL000010.01","price":390000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaKlasikUsakDesenliBordoHali_1.jpg?v=1709629014"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-usak-desenli-bordo-pamuk-hali","title":"Burgundy Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurgundy over tan, with cream drawing spread right across the field: a hand-knotted wool rug in the Oushak manner, 272 × 367 cm (8'11\" × 12'0\"). Oushak — Uşak in Turkish — is the weaving district of western Anatolia whose large, openly spaced patterns have been copied for four centuries. This one was tied in India, and there is exactly one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern is the Oushak kind rather than the Persian one: motifs drawn big, spaced generously, and a border that repeats a simplified version of whatever the field is doing. Burgundy holds the middle and tan carries the edges, while cream runs between them as outline rather than as a color of its own. The surface has a definite sheen. Manchester yarn was used in the weaving and it takes light along the pile, so the burgundy goes deep and almost brown from one end of the room and lifts back to red from the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt came off an Indian loom, since that is where most Oushak-pattern weaving now happens — production of the pattern in Uşak itself has thinned to very little. The weave is packed tight, and that density is what keeps a field this open from looking thin. One practical thing is worth saying before anything else: 272 × 367 cm is close to nine feet by twelve, so it takes two people to lay it and a specialist to wash it. This is not a rug anyone moves on a whim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, in the Oushak pattern of western Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile, closely packed, with Manchester yarn giving the surface its sheen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy field over tan, with the drawing outlined in cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLarge motifs widely spaced, in the Oushak manner rather than the Persian one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e272 × 367 cm (8'11\" × 12'0\") — a full living-room size, or a dining room with the chairs pulled out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece, at these exact dimensions, and no second one behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnder dark walnut it settles and reads brown; in a white room on pale boards the red comes up and takes the whole floor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 272 X 367","offer_id":44659648135401,"sku":"BOZSAL000046.01","price":385000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaUsakDesenliBordoTabaYunHali_1_f23627c4-5569-4481-8747-5f92b0785b3c.jpg?v=1709628706"},{"product_id":"ikinci-el-klasik-krem-renk-cicek-desenli-el-dokuma-bunyan-hali","title":"Cream Floral Hand-Knotted Wool Bünyan Rug, Second-Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 308 × 420 cm (10'1\" × 13'9\") this is a room-sized hand-knotted Bünyan rug, cream-ground and covered edge to edge in small flowers, with an orange and salmon border closing it. Bünyan is a town near Kayseri in central Anatolia that has knotted rugs on cotton warps for generations. The rug is second-hand and in flawless condition, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground is a light cream that keeps the surface bright, and the flowers worked across it are small and close-set rather than gathered around a medallion. Brown and blue do most of the drawing inside the blossoms; the border shifts into orange and salmon and gives the field a warm edge to stop against. Read from a doorway it holds together as one pale expanse. Up close it separates into several hundred individual flower heads, none of them quite matching its neighbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton in the warp, wool in the weft, knotted in the Bünyan tradition that gives the rug its name. It is woven finer than most rugs of its kind, which is why a piece covering this much floor still lies flat and handles like a smaller one. It has had an owner before this one. We say so plainly, because it matters and because the condition is the surprising part — no wear to point at, no thinned patch, no repaired corner. It wants professional washing and nothing improvised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a Bünyan rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBünyan is a district of Kayseri in central Anatolia whose weavers knot rugs on cotton warps, usually in floral drawing over light grounds. The name records where and how a rug was made rather than naming one fixed design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does second-hand mean for a rug like this?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt means the rug had an owner before this one. It does not mean damage. This piece shows no wear, no repairs and no thinning, and the only real difference from new is that it has already settled and lies flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Bünyan, near Kayseri, on a cotton warp with wool weft.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground carrying close-set floral drawing in brown and blue.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrange and salmon border framing the field on all four sides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven finer than most Bünyan rugs of this scale, so it lies flatter and weighs less.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e308 × 420 cm (10'1\" × 13'9\") — it takes a twelve-seat dining table with the chairs pulled back, or a bed with room to walk around.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSecond-hand, with no faults we can find and no visible wear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cream rug this large records everything that happens to it, which is the argument for buying one that has already come through a household intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is a Bünyan rug?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Bünyan is a district of Kayseri in central Anatolia whose weavers knot rugs on cotton warps, usually in floral drawing over light grounds. 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This one was knotted in Pakistan instead, in wool on a cotton warp, 310 × 420 cm (10'2\" × 13'9\"), with the blue of open sky running underneath yellow and brown drawing. It belongs to the Mahal series and there is a single piece of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlue does the work here. The yarns were dyed by a method that leaves several values of one color in the same batch, so the ground shifts by half a tone across a hand's width and never sits flat — the effect a rug person calls abrash, arrived at on purpose. Yellow and brown carry the motifs above it, held in pastel and earth values rather than saturated ones, and that restraint is why a rug covering this much floor does not shout. The tonal spread is even across the whole field instead of pooling at one end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is tied with the double knot, meaning each knot is closed twice: a rug made this way takes about twice as long as one of the same knot count tied the ordinary way, and the interlocking rows are what hold the structure together. Cotton makes the warps and wool makes the pile, both spun by hand rather than drawn from mill thread. Keep it out of direct sun, because a rug dyed to hold this many close values is precisely the kind that fades unevenly. Rotate it end for end about once a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Pakistan, where most Oushak-pattern weaving now takes place.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton warp, tied throughout with the double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDouble knotting roughly doubles the weaving time against a single-knotted rug of the same density.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue ground with yellow and brown motifs, in pastel and earth values.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDyed so that several tones of one color appear across a single surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e310 × 420 cm (10'2\" × 13'9\"), a size for a large living room or a wide entrance hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning; keep it away from direct sunlight and rotate it occasionally.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a calm rug for a loud room, and the reason to put it in a big entrance is that the space then reads as somewhere you have arrived rather than somewhere you pass through.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 310X420","offer_id":45712734585065,"sku":"KERMAH000169.01","price":320000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaHali_1.jpg?v=1709626584"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-siyah-kilim","title":"Black Anatolian-Pattern Handwoven Wool Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA handwoven wool kilim on a black ground, 120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\"), with Anatolian geometric motifs running in horizontal bands across it in red, orange, yellow and green. A kilim is flat-woven rather than knotted, so it carries no pile and lies thin. Woven in Türkiye, one piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlack is an unusual ground for an Anatolian flatweave and it changes what every other color does: red goes hotter against it, yellow stops looking pale, and the green begins to read almost as a third warm color. The bands advance up the kilim in sequence, four colors taking their turn, so the eye travels along it instead of settling in a middle. Inside the bands is the old geometric alphabet of village weaving — hooks, diamonds, running borders — each drawn small and repeated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven entirely in wool on Turkish looms, with no pile whatsoever. The pattern is the weft itself, beaten down over the warp until the warp disappears. That is what a flatweave is, and it is why a kilim weighs a fraction of a knotted rug covering the same floor and can be picked up and shaken out. Thinness is the trade: underfoot it is firm rather than soft, and on a polished floor it will slide without a pad beneath it. Professional washing keeps the black from going gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven flatweave in wool, made in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlack ground carrying horizontal bands in red, orange, yellow and green.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGeometric Anatolian motifs drawn small and repeated along each band.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo pile at all: thin, light, and easy to lift and shake out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\") — an entryway, a study, or the foot of a bed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm underfoot rather than cushioned, and it wants a pad on a smooth floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHung on a wall it does the same job it does on a floor, and the black keeps it from competing with anything else in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Black \/ 120 X 180","offer_id":44269877919977,"sku":"HALPAT000036.01","price":16500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliSiyahKilim_2.jpg?v=1704635223"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-vintage-desenli-siyah-pamuk-hali","title":"Black Overdyed Vintage Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis began as somebody else's rug. Hand-knotted in Anatolia between thirty and eighty years ago, then sheared down, thinned and dyed again in black, it is now 196 × 294 cm (6'5\" × 9'8\") of wool pile on a cotton foundation, with the earlier pattern showing faintly through the new color.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOverdyeing does not erase a pattern. It flattens the contrast between its parts, so what was a bordered field of medallions and vines becomes one dark surface with drawing visible in it at close range and nearly nothing at a distance. The black is uneven, and it is not meant to be otherwise: the old dyes underneath accept the new one differently, so some areas go charcoal while others keep a brown or a green sitting below the black. Those shifts are the whole appeal of the technique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOld handwoven rugs are collected, cropped close, thinned, re-dyed and dried, and only the ones sound enough to survive the process are used. Surface wool and cotton foundation are as they were when the rug was first knotted. Cutting the pile short leaves a low, hard-wearing surface with less for dust to settle into, which is why rugs treated this way end up in kitchens and offices as often as in living rooms. What you give up is softness — this is a thin, firm rug and not one to sit on the floor of.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is an overdyed vintage rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is an older hand-knotted rug that has been sheared short and dyed a second time in one strong color. The original pattern stays in the weave and shows through the new dye, which is what produces the flat, dark, faintly ghosted surface these rugs are known for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIs the pattern still visible under the black?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes, at close range. The dye lands unevenly on wool that already carried color, so medallions, borders and vines register as tonal shifts within the black rather than as separate colors. From across a room the rug looks plain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOriginally hand-knotted in Anatolia, thirty to eighty years ago.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSheared, thinned, re-dyed black and dried; only structurally sound rugs are put through it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton foundation, as first woven.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTrade usage calls a rug of this age vintage — twenty to eighty years — and no authority issues the term.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLow pile: firm underfoot, hard-wearing, quick to vacuum.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e196 × 294 cm (6'5\" × 9'8\"), enough for a seating group or a dining table.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt suits the rooms nobody treats gently — a kitchen, a hallway, anywhere people arrive still wearing shoes — and it was already old before it got here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is an overdyed vintage rug?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"It is an older hand-knotted rug that has been sheared short and dyed a second time in one strong color. 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A weaver with a wide palette can cover an error with another shade; a weaver with burgundy, navy and white has nowhere to put a mistake, and every motif has to be legible on the strength of its outline alone. That is why Yağcıbedir drawing is angular and closed — hooked forms, stepped edges, small enclosed figures — and why the white is used sparingly, as the element that separates the two dark colors from each other. In a room the effect is graphic rather than soft, and the rug will hold its own against strong furniture instead of sitting quietly beneath it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool pile, hand-knotted, from Türkiye. Under two square meters it is an entrance rug, a bedside rug, or the piece that goes in front of a single chair; the Turkish source proposes a sitting room, an entrance, or a bedroom, and at this size each of those is honest. Walnut and mid-brown wood sit with the burgundy without argument, and so do the same colors repeated in small objects. The house's own guidance allows wiping with mild soapy water for a local mark, with a professional wash for anything more than that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in wool in Türkiye, in the Yağcıbedir pattern family.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy, navy and white — three colors, used in that order of weight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e106 × 184 cm (3'6\" × 6'0\"), under two square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAngular closed drawing: hooks, stepped edges, small enclosed figures.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhite is used sparingly, as the separator between the two dark colors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads graphic rather than soft; it will not disappear under strong furniture.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA local mark can be wiped with mild soapy water; anything larger goes out for washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA three-color rug is the hardest kind to weave badly without it showing, which is most of what recommends this one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 106 X 184","offer_id":44318214947049,"sku":"MZTYAB000004.01","price":47000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaEtnikTasarimliYagcibedirDesenliKirmiziHali_1.jpg?v=1706021345"},{"product_id":"anadolu-sal-serisi-sivas-zara-desenli-el-dokuma-yun-hali-16","title":"Multicolor Sivas Zara Handwoven Wool Rug, Anadolu Şal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA piece this small took months to weave. 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The wool has a soft hand and a faint sheen close to silk, and both come from the grade of the fleece rather than from any finishing treatment. Fewer of these are made each year. It should be washed professionally, and being small enough to carry, most people will do exactly that rather than risk it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Anatolia, wholly by hand, over several months.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirst-grade wool yarn, soft in the hand and faintly lustrous.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by women artisans, as the whole Anadolu Şal series is.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue, orange, red, green and yellow, in traditional Anatolian motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eŞal means shawl: the drawing came from woven shawls before it came to rugs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e81 × 129 cm (2'8\" × 4'3\") — a bedside, a reading chair, a small entrance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFewer pieces of this kind leave Anatolian looms every year.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a small rug that behaves like a large one, and in a plain room it will be the only thing anybody asks about.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 81 X 129","offer_id":44374863773929,"sku":"CALSAL000014.01","price":38000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaRengarenkSalDesenliYunHali_1_35b20b3c-88e0-457e-9c2a-f29cf7c4967b.jpg?v=1705830070"},{"product_id":"retro-serisi-el-dokuma-vintage-gri-hali","title":"Gray Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Retro Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hand-knotted wool rug in gray from the Retro series, 199 × 301 cm (6'6\" × 9'11\"), carrying classic Oushak motifs redrawn in a modern palette over a surface washed to a low sheen. Knotted in Pakistan and Afghanistan on a cotton warp. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGray is not a ground Oushak weaving traditionally uses, and moving the old drawing into it is the entire purpose of the Retro series: the motifs stay exactly where they always were, the ground drops from red or cream to a neutral, and a pattern that would look antique in its own colors reads as contemporary instead. The wash the rug is given after weaving leaves the pile faintly lustrous, so the gray lightens and darkens as somebody walks around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeavers in Pakistan and Afghanistan tie these by hand at a high knot count, on a cotton warp, with the wool pile thin and closely set. The skeleton carries a small quantity of recycled synthetic thread to keep it firm, which the house would rather name than let the word wool cover the whole rug. Everything a foot touches is wool. Professional washing only, and the sheen does mean the surface will show which direction the pile was last brushed in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Pakistan and Afghanistan at a high knot count.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton warp, over a skeleton stiffened with a small quantity of recycled synthetic thread.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe surface underfoot is wool throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak motifs redrawn in gray instead of their traditional grounds.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGiven a wash after weaving that leaves a low sheen on the pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e199 × 301 cm (6'6\" × 9'11\") — a living room, or an office floor that needs quieting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSet against black metal and pale plaster it looks chosen rather than inherited, which is the whole argument for taking an old pattern out of its old colors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Gray \/ 199 X 301","offer_id":44375164322025,"sku":"SAROVR000044.01","price":151000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/RetroSerisiVintageDesenliElDokumaHali_3_b9bdd2d3-2b58-4497-999b-e875367110ba.jpg?v=1709565635"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-yahyali-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-hali","title":"Multicolor Yahyalı Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYahyalı sits in the mountains south of Kayseri, and the rug that carries its name is one of the most recognizable drawings in central Anatolia. This is a hand-knotted Yahyalı rug in wool, 108 × 194 cm (3'7\" × 6'4\"), woven in Türkiye, multicolored, with the district's stepped geometry running the length of the field.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing is geometric rather than floral — angular repeats and a stepped central form, with a border that runs a smaller version of the same logic around the edge. Color is recorded on this piece only as rengarenk, multicolored, which is the honest description: no single tone takes charge, and the ones doing most of the work are the reds and blues that Yahyalı weaving has always leaned on. In a hallway with one lamp they settle rather than argue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye, wool from the pile down to the last row of the foundation. The house files it among its rare pieces, and it is old rather than new. Nothing on it was drawn on paper first: the medallion sits a knot or two off center and the two ends of the border do not close identically, which is the ordinary evidence of a weaver working from memory. Take it to a rug washer; nothing improvised at home will do the job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye, in the Yahyalı pattern of the Kayseri highlands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool throughout — pile and foundation both.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGeometric field with a stepped central form and a repeating border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored, with red and blue doing most of the work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e108 × 194 cm (3'7\" × 6'4\") — an entrance, a bedside, or the floor beside a desk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn older piece, held in the rare-pieces group rather than the current ranges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a rug specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs of this drawing were made to be walked on for a generation before anyone thought of them as old, and this one is only partway through that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 108 X 194","offer_id":44397863043305,"sku":"MZTYAH000002.01","price":58500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaEtnikTasarimliYagcibedirDesenliKirmiziHali_1_c232d0ad-b287-4693-88d6-cd4a7eb5a66b.jpg?v=1706022088"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/collections\/ofis_halilari.png?v=1784440699","url":"https:\/\/www.halicizade.com\/en\/collections\/office-rugs.oembed?page=14","provider":"HALICIZADE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}