{"title":"Oushak Rugs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Oushak rug is a rug woven in the pattern tradition of Uşak, a town and province in western Anatolia — Oushak is the English spelling of the place name. Oushaks are recognized by an open field, a wide-set medallion or repeating eight-pointed stars, the symmetrical Gördes knot, and a low-contrast palette of madder red, apricot, gold and ivory.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Turkish account traces the weaving back to the fourteenth century. The surviving rugs, and the European paintings that record them, begin in the fifteenth. What follows is what the classical Oushak groups actually look like, what their motifs meant to the women who drew them, and why an Oushak is usually the first Anatolian rug that settles into a room full of modern furniture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhere Oushak rugs come from\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUşak sits inland from the Aegean, on the old road between the coastal ports and the Anatolian plateau. Weaving there was organized on a scale the village traditions never reached: large looms, large rugs, and a standing order book that ran from the Ottoman palace to Venetian and Flemish merchants. Production expanded under Süleyman the Magnificent, and the Turkish record notes that weavers brought from Azerbaijan introduced new drawing into the local repertoire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThat commercial scale is why the tradition matters art-historically. Village rugs were woven for a household and stayed in it. Oushaks were woven to be sold, shipped and inventoried, which is how the surviving fifteenth- to seventeenth-century pieces reached the Louvre and most major European collections. The pattern language outlived the workshops that invented it — Oushak drawing is now woven in Turkey, India, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan, and origin is worth asking about rather than assuming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eThe classical Oushak groups, and what their motifs mean\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dozen recognizable compositions account for nearly all Oushak drawing, and Turkish weavers name them by what the field holds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003cth\u003eGroup\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eWhat the field holds\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eTraditional meaning\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003ePalette\u003c\/th\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eMedallion (madalyonlu)\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eOne large central medallion, quarter medallions cut by the corners, grounds filled in the manner of miniature painting\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCommand of the whole surface; the sixteenth-century court manner\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eMadder red ground, indigo medallion\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eStar (yıldızlı)\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eEight-pointed stars in staggered rows, alternating with smaller lozenges\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eBirth and the renewal of the world; fertility\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eDeep red with blue and gold\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eBird (kuşlu)\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eAn ivory ground with a small repeating motif whose paired leaves read as birds\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eThe soul and its continuance; also strength\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eIvory ground, red and blue drawing\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eÇintemani\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eThree dots set in a triangle, often with a pair of wavy bands\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eAbundance; the dots read as a leopard pelt\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eIvory or red ground\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eAngular medallion (köşeli madalyon)\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eA stepped medallion holding a dragon drawn like an ear of wheat, with a flowering tree of life\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eAbundance and increase\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eRed and indigo\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCloud band (bulutlu)\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eSymmetrical cloud forms scattered over the whole field\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eThe continuity of life\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eRed and indigo\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eLeaf (yapraklı)\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eDagger-shaped leaves repeating across the field, sometimes with open flowers\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eA late group, drawn from observed nature\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eRed and navy\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo further groups carry the names of painters rather than motifs. The Lotto group — a yellow arabesque lattice on red, with bird, dragon and tree-of-life elements — is named for Lorenzo Lotto, and the small-pattern Holbein group for Hans Holbein the Younger. Museums and auction houses catalog both as carpets, and that is the one place on this page where the older trade word is left standing, because changing it would break the reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhy the same rug turns up in a Renaissance portrait\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause it was the rug a wealthy European sitter actually owned. An Anatolian rug crossing the Adriatic in 1540 was an expensive imported object, and a portrait painter laid it over the table the way he put a fur collar on a shoulder — as evidence of standing. The paintings are also a dating tool. A composition that appears in a dated portrait was demonstrably in production before that year, which is how the classical groups were placed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries at all; very few Oushaks of that age survive with documentation of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat Oushak color is made of\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOushak color is low in contrast by Anatolian standards. The reds come from madder root rather than cochineal, which puts them closer to terracotta and brick than to scarlet, and they sit beside apricot, pale gold, soft green and an ivory that has usually warmed with age. The classical palette the Turkish sources name is red, blue and white; modern weaving has widened it without changing its temperature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing helps as much as the color. An Oushak field is open, the medallion is set well away from the borders, and the border count is low. A rug with fewer, larger shapes reads as a surface rather than as a pattern, which is why an Oushak disappears comfortably under a low modern sofa where a densely drawn rug would compete with it. It also holds its own on a wood floor, beside leather furniture, and in a Scandinavian room that needs one warm element. A smaller piece hangs well on a wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eHand-knotted, loom-woven or machine-woven\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe same drawing is produced three ways, and what changes is the labor rather than the pattern. A hand-knotted Oushak is tied knot by knot with the symmetrical \u003cstrong\u003eGördes knot\u003c\/strong\u003e around pairs of warp threads, and a room-size piece takes months. A loom-woven rug is made on a hand-operated loom with a controlled weave structure rather than tied knots, which holds the sizing even across a long series. A machine-woven Oushak reproduces the drawing on a power loom in wool or a wool blend, and is the sensible answer for a corridor or a kitchen where the rug will be lifted and shaken out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHalıcızade's Oushak-pattern rugs cover that whole range: machine-woven wool runners around 100 × 300 cm (3'3\" × 9'10\"), loom-woven wool from 80 × 150 cm (2'7\" × 4'11\") up to 300 × 400 cm (9'10\" × 13'1\"), hand-knotted room sizes at 206 × 283 cm (6'9\" × 9'3\") and 204 × 349 cm (6'8\" × 11'5\"), round formats from 150 × 150 cm (4'11\" × 4'11\") to 210 × 210 cm (6'11\" × 6'11\"), and a small number of silk pieces. Compare \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/hand-knotted-rugs\"\u003ehand-knotted rugs\u003c\/a\u003e with \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/machine-rugs\"\u003emachine-woven rugs\u003c\/a\u003e to see the same pattern at two levels of work, and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/wool-rugs\"\u003ewool rugs\u003c\/a\u003e with \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/silk-rugs\"\u003esilk rugs\u003c\/a\u003e before settling on a fiber.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eChoosing and living with one\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart from the room rather than the pattern. Measure the seating group and choose a rug large enough for at least the front legs of every piece to stand on it, then match the ground color to the wall rather than to the sofa. A hand-knotted piece costs more than a machine-woven one in the same drawing, and the difference buys hand-spun yarn, a denser back and a rug that can be washed and re-fringed for a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn use, vacuum in the direction of the pile without the beater bar. Rotate the rug twice a year so that sun and traffic land on different parts of it, and keep a madder-dyed rug out of a full south window, since light fades it faster than feet wear it. Blot spills with a dry cloth instead of rubbing, because rubbing drives the liquid down into the knot collar. Send a hand-knotted wool rug in daily use for professional washing every twelve to eighteen months, and read \u003ca href=\"\/en\/blogs\/news\/how-to-wash-a-rug\"\u003ehow a rug is washed\u003c\/a\u003e before handing it to anyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFrequently asked questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is an Oushak rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn Oushak rug is a rug woven in the pattern tradition of Uşak in western Anatolia, characterized by an open field, a large central medallion or repeating eight-pointed stars, the symmetrical Gördes knot, and a soft palette of apricot, madder red, pale gold and ivory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy is Uşak spelled Oushak in English?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOushak is the established English transliteration of the Turkish place name Uşak, fixed in the nineteenth-century rug trade before Turkish adopted the Latin alphabet. Both spellings refer to the same town and province in western Anatolia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat do the motifs on an Oushak rug mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe eight-pointed star stands for birth and the renewal of the world, the bird for the soul and its continuance, and the three dots of the çintemani for abundance. Cloud bands read as the continuity of life, and the flowering tree of life for increase.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is the difference between a medallion Oushak and a star Oushak?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA medallion Oushak has one large central medallion on an open field with quarter medallions cut by the corners. A star Oushak has no single center: eight-pointed stars repeat in staggered rows across the whole field, alternating with smaller lozenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy do Oushak rugs appear in Renaissance paintings?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey were imported into Europe in quantity from the fifteenth century and were expensive enough to signal a sitter's wealth. Two groups are named after the painters who recorded them: the Lotto group after Lorenzo Lotto and the small-pattern Holbein group after Hans Holbein the Younger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAre Oushak rugs still woven in Uşak?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes, and the pattern is also hand-knotted today in India, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan, and machine-woven in Turkey. Origin and construction are worth confirming on any individual rug, because the same drawing is produced at very different levels of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat size Oushak rug suits a living room?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasure the seating group first, then choose a rug large enough for at least the front legs of every piece to stand on it. A room size of roughly 200 × 300 cm suits most living rooms, and a runner of about 100 × 300 cm suits corridors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is an Oushak rug?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"An Oushak rug is a rug woven in the pattern tradition of Uşak in western Anatolia, characterized by an open field, a large central medallion or repeating eight-pointed stars, the symmetrical Gördes knot, and a soft palette of apricot, madder red, pale gold and ivory.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Why is Uşak spelled Oushak in English?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"Oushak is the established English transliteration of the Turkish place name Uşak, fixed in the nineteenth-century rug trade before Turkish adopted the Latin alphabet. 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A room size of roughly 200 × 300 cm suits most living rooms, and a runner of about 100 × 300 cm suits corridors.\"}}]}\u003c\/script\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHal\u0026#305;c\u0026#305;zade Hal\u0026#305; Kilim, Ankara, carries Oushak drawing in all three constructions \u0026mdash; hand-knotted, loom-woven and machine-woven \u0026mdash; at the same time, which makes them straightforward to compare.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLast updated: 10 September 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelated collections:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/turkish-rugs\"\u003eTurkish rugs\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/anatolian-rugs\"\u003eAnatolian rugs\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/medallion-rugs\"\u003emedallion rugs\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/hallway-runners\"\u003ehallway runners\u003c\/a\u003e \u0026middot; \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/sultan-series\"\u003eSultan Series\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","products":[{"product_id":"harem-serisi-bursa-ipegi-el-dokuma-modern-usak-desenli-bordu-hali","title":"Burgundy Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool and Silk Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eÇınhar Halı wove this one for Halıcızade — a Turkish house whose rug designs have taken international awards, working to its own patterns. Burgundy Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool and Silk Rug, Harem Series, made in Türkiye from Erzurum wool and Bursa silk, in sizes from 131 × 186 cm (4'4\" × 6'1\") to 241 × 323 cm (7'11\" × 10'7\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing comes from Uşak in the Turkish west — Oushak in English — and it goes back to that town's fourteenth- and fifteenth-century patterns, redrawn at a modern scale rather than reproduced. Burgundy carries them. It is a color that behaves completely differently by daylight and by lamp: flat and almost brown at noon, deep and lit from within after dark, and the silk in the pile is what does the second half of that. Rugs from this series have been laid in government buildings for years, which tells you more about how they wear than any description of them will.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo materials are worth naming separately. The wool is taken from Erzurum fleece, which is oily and therefore both strong and bright; the silk is real Bursa silk, and there is not much of it left in commercial weaving. They are knotted together with the double knot — the symmetrical Turkish knot, worked around two warps — which is slower than the alternative and holds the pattern edges sharper. Washing goes to a specialist and nowhere else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye by Çınhar Halı, to designs made for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece wool blended with genuine Bursa silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak motifs of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, redrawn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKnotted with the double knot, the symmetrical knot used across Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground that changes character between daylight and lamplight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSizes from 131 × 186 cm (4'4\" × 6'1\") to 241 × 323 cm (7'11\" × 10'7\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAward-winning designs in international rug design competition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is the double knot?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe double knot, also called the symmetrical or Gördes knot, wraps the pile yarn around two warp threads instead of one. It takes longer to tie and produces a firmer pile with cleaner pattern edges, and it is the knot used across most of Anatolia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy does Bursa silk matter?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBursa has been the center of Turkish silk production since the Ottoman period, and very little of it now goes into rugs. Silk from there is used here for the highlights in the pattern, where it reflects light the wool cannot and gives the burgundy its depth after dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a rug bought once, and the reason to buy the larger size is that the pattern was drawn for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the double knot?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The double knot, also called the symmetrical or Gördes knot, wraps the pile yarn around two warp threads instead of one. 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Everything here is legible: the branch turns, the flower heads, the way the border repeats without quite repeating. The silk sits in the highlights, so the rug is one thing under a window and another under a lamp, and the wool holds the rest steady while the silk moves. Beside walnut and unbleached linen it looks domestic; beside anything painted it looks considerably older than it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÇınhar Halı in Türkiye weaves the Harem series to patterns drawn for this shop, and the firm's own designs have taken prizes outside the country. Its fleece comes out of Erzurum, where enough natural oil stays in the wool to make it strong and bright at once. Its silk is Bursa silk, which now reaches very few looms anywhere. Both are tied with the Anatolian double knot, one knot wrapped around a pair of warp threads — slower to work than the alternative, and cleaner wherever a motif turns a corner. Send it to a washer who takes silk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by Çınhar Halı in Türkiye, to drawings commissioned by this shop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece wool with genuine Bursa silk in the highlights.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFourteenth- and fifteenth-century Uşak drawing, redrawn for a modern room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTied with the Anatolian double knot, around a pair of warp threads.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with brown and honey drawing, 144 × 193 cm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe silk changes the rug between daylight and lamplight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cream Oushak is the one that ends up in the room people are actually shown into.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 144 X 193","offer_id":44156943466729,"sku":"ÇINHAR000024.01","price":137000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaKremRenkYunIpekHali_1.jpg?v=1709557770"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-yun-krem-hali","title":"Cream Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 132 × 168 cm (4'4\" × 5'6\") this one is close to square, which is rare in a knotted rug and useful in a room that is: Cream Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series — knotted in Türkiye from Erzurum wool, cream ground, classical Uşak drawing worked at a modern scale.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA near-square rug behaves differently. Nothing about it points anywhere, so it will not tell you which way the furniture should face, and under a round table or in a square hall it settles where a long rug would look stranded. The drawing helps: the Oushak motifs are set out symmetrically, so there is no head and no foot to the piece. Cream keeps it light. The pattern is carried in warmer tones and is easiest to read from directly above, which is the angle a square rug is usually seen from anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErzurum wool is what goes into it, bright and soft and strong at once, which is a combination that rarely turns up in one fleece. The knotting is the Anatolian double knot, worked symmetrically around two warp threads, which takes longer per row and holds the drawing crisper at the turns. The whole rug was made in Türkiye. Contemporary readings of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Uşak motifs are what the Harem series is for, and this is one of the plainer ones. Professional washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye from Erzurum wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNearly square at 132 × 168 cm, with no direction to the drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSymmetrical Uşak motifs on a cream ground, drawn at a modern scale.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDouble-knotted around two warps, which sharpens the turns in the pattern.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece: bright, soft and strong at once.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits a square hall, a round table or a room without a long axis.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSquare rooms are usually furnished as though they were rectangular; this is the rug that lets them stop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 132 X 168","offer_id":44156946252009,"sku":"ÇINHAR000064.01","price":110000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaYunKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709558552"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-usak-desenli-kahverengi-el-dokuma-hali","title":"Brown Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUşak, in western Türkiye, has been drawing the same family of patterns since the fifteenth century; this is a present-day reading of them: Brown Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug, Harem Series — 130 × 165 cm (4'3\" × 5'5\"), knotted in Türkiye from Erzurum wool, in browns and natural tones.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrown is the color the Oushak drawing was probably always closest to, and on this ground the motifs read as structure rather than as decoration — you notice the geometry of the branches before you notice the flowers on them. The palette stays inside the natural range, which means the rug does not compete with wood and does not fight leather. In a study or a small hall it does the thing a brown rug is bought to do: it makes the floor feel finished and then stops asking for attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÇınhar Halı wove it for Halıcızade — a house with international awards in rug design — and the series is theirs to make and ours to draw. Erzurum wool gives the pile its softness and its shine. The knot is the Anatolian double knot, two warps at a time, which is the slower method and the one that keeps a pattern edge from blurring. Genuine Bursa silk turns up in some pieces from the Harem series. Erzurum wool is what is named for this one. Professional washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye by Çınhar Halı for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum wool in the pile; Bursa silk appears in some Harem pieces but is not named for this one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak drawing in browns and natural tones, read as structure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe Anatolian double knot, tied around two warps at a time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e130 × 165 cm, a near-square size for a study or a small hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSits with wood and leather without competing with either.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuy it when the floor is the thing that keeps looking unfinished, and it will go on solving that for twenty years.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Brown \/ 130 X 165","offer_id":44156949659881,"sku":"ÇINHAR000053.01","price":106000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliKahverengiElDokumaHali_1.jpg?v=1709558225"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-ipek-hali","title":"Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool and Silk Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst-shearing oily fleece from Erzurum and real Bursa silk, knotted together by hand into an Oushak-pattern rug from the Harem series — wool carrying the ground, silk laid in where the drawing has to catch light. Woven in Türkiye for Halıcızade by the Çınhar workshop, on the Anatolian double knot. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak — a weaving town out in the west of Anatolia — has been supplying this kind of drawing for five centuries: broad medallions, a field left generous rather than crowded, borders that frame instead of compete. The Harem reading keeps that architecture and loosens the rest, so the ornament sits apart with air around it. Where the silk runs through the motifs it answers light differently from the wool beside it, and the pattern seems to float a knot's height above its own ground when you cross the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe fleece is Erzurum \u003cem\u003eyağlı yapağı\u003c\/em\u003e, the oily first-shearing wool that keeps most of its lanolin and therefore most of its shine. The silk is reeled in Bursa, which has been a silk town since the Ottomans made it one. Çınhar ties the pile on the double knot, the Anatolian method, and the piece was made for this house rather than bought in. Silk and wool take water differently, so this one goes to a specialist and to nobody with a bottle of shampoo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye by Çınhar, made for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile with real Bursa silk worked through the motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe fleece is Erzurum first-shearing oily wool, chosen for its shine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTied on the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak drawing, opened out and read for a modern room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing only — never a home shampoo on the silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece, and it will not be woven again.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe silk announces itself only to somebody moving past it, which makes this a rug for the part of a house where people walk slowly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"burgundy \/ 165X243","offer_id":45803626103017,"sku":"ÇINHAR000120.01","price":197000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliIpekHali_1.jpg?v=1709558693"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-krem-hali-340","title":"Cream Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe motifs come first here: fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Oushak drawing, redrawn rather than copied, carried on a cream ground. It is a handwoven wool rug, 133 × 197 cm (4'4\" × 6'6\"), tied on the Anatolian double knot in Türkiye and made for Halıcızade by Çınhar, a workshop whose designs have won prizes at international rug competitions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream is the hardest ground to weave well, because nothing hides in it. Every knot of the ornament reads at full strength, and the border has to hold the field without darkening it. What the Oushak drawing gives at this scale is proportion — a small rug with a large rug's sense of interval, so the pattern never looks shrunk to fit. Silk appears in some Harem pieces where a motif needs lift; in a cream ground its work is subtle, and you find it by turning your head rather than by looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wool is Erzurum fleece, soft and bright and hard-wearing in that order. The double knot is the Anatolian technique the workshop uses throughout the series, and it is what holds the pile upright under a chair leg. A cream field is honest about a house: it will show a spill sooner than a dark rug does, and it should not go under a dining table for that reason. Have it washed by a professional and it comes back the color it started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye by Çınhar for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile from Erzurum fleece, on the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDrawing taken from fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Oushak motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e133 × 197 cm (4'4\" × 6'6\") — a bedside, study or hallway size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSome rugs in the Harem series carry real Bursa silk in the motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA cream ground shows marks that a dark ground hides; keep it away from the dining table.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSend it out to be washed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn ten years the cream will have warmed by a shade or two, which is the one change in it that nobody minds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 133 X 197","offer_id":44156952445161,"sku":"ÇINHAR000179.01","price":130000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaKremHali_1.jpg?v=1709559233"},{"product_id":"harem-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-bordo-hali-344","title":"Burgundy Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Harem Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWestern Anatolia is where this pattern comes from. Oushak has been sending out medallion-and-border drawings since the fifteenth century, and this is a handwoven wool rug in burgundy that takes the old composition and reads it for a room built now. Tied on the Anatolian double knot in a Turkish workshop, made for Halıcızade by Çınhar.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurgundy behaves like two colors depending on where the light comes from. Under a warm bulb it goes red and forward; in daylight from a north window it settles back toward brown and lets the ornament do the talking. The Oushak scrollwork sits on top of that shift without being disturbed by it, because the drawing is built from outlines rather than from washes of color. Green appears in the smaller motifs, which is the note that keeps the whole thing from reading as one deep tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErzurum wool again, bright and strong, and the same double knot the workshop has used throughout the Harem series. Real Bursa silk turns up in a few pieces of the series — it is rare enough now that even the textile trade sees little of it. What burgundy will not do is disappear: this is a rug that decides the temperature of a room, and if you want the floor to stay quiet you want a different one. Professional cleaning; no bleach near it, ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in a Turkish workshop by Çınhar, for Halıcızade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum wool pile, tied on the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak motifs, redrawn rather than reproduced.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground with green in the smaller ornament.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReal Bursa silk appears in some Harem pieces — it has become scarce.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIt sets the temperature of a room rather than following it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClean professionally; keep bleach away from the pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single rug, not part of a run.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt sits well beside walnut and old leather, and it will outlast both if the double knot does its job.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Green \/ 131 X 172","offer_id":44156953133289,"sku":"ÇINHAR000213.01","price":111000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaBordoHali_1.jpg?v=1709559433"},{"product_id":"safir-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-oymali-hali-11","title":"Cream Carved Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Rug, Safir Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe unusual thing here is that the pattern was cut as well as tied. A cream handwoven rug from the Safir series measuring 120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\"), its Oushak ornament carved by hand with shears once the weaving was finished, so every outline stands slightly proud of the ground. Woven in India at high knot density.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarving is what gives a flat drawing a shadow. A weaver goes over the finished pile and cuts down the ground around each motif by a few millimeters, so the ornament keeps its own height and the light stops at its edge. On a cream rug this matters more than on a dark one, because cream has no contrast to spare — the relief supplies the definition that color would otherwise have to. The Oushak motifs underneath are the classical ones, handled with a lighter hand than an antique would use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is knotted densely, which is the precondition for carving at all: a loose pile collapses under the shears and the line goes ragged. Wool carries the ground and bamboo viscose runs through the ornament, which is why the cut edges catch more light than the field does. Carved rugs need a little care in use — a vacuum with a beater bar drags at the raised outlines, so use suction alone. 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Woven in Türkiye by Çınhar for Halıcızade.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFifteenth-century Oushak weaving is one of the reference points of the whole craft — the rugs that turn up underfoot in Renaissance paintings came out of that region — and what it contributes here is interval rather than incident. The motifs are spaced so the eye rests between them. Cream and beige sit a half-step apart, which means the pattern is legible in daylight and almost dissolves under a low lamp. That gap between the two readings is the piece's best trick and it costs nothing to enjoy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErzurum produces wool that is soft, bright and durable, and the workshop uses the first shearing. The double knot is Anatolian practice; Çınhar has taken prizes for its drawing at international competitions, which is a fact about the design rather than about this rug's construction, and worth separating. Bursa silk goes into Harem pieces where a motif needs to lift. A pale rug in a pale room asks something of you in return: it wants shoes off, and it wants a professional wash rather than a bucket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by hand in Türkiye at the Çınhar workshop.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum first-shearing wool, on the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrnament drawn from fifteenth-century Oushak motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with beige ornament — a half-step apart, so the pattern shifts with the light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReal Bursa silk, now genuinely scarce, appears in the Harem series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePale ground: it asks for shoes off and rewards it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning by a professional, and rarely.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne rug only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs like this are usually bought for a living room and end up in a bedroom, where the low light suits them better.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 190 X 216","offer_id":44157042262249,"sku":"ÇINHAR000160.01","price":205000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaYunKlasikHali_1.jpg?v=1709559030"},{"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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Wool, cotton and bamboo viscose in the surface, a cotton foundation underneath, and a knot count fine enough to hold the small scrollwork. The largest piece measures 265 × 355 cm (8'8\" × 11'8\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream holds the ground and the purple does the drawing — palmettes, hooked leaves and a scrolling vine that runs the border without quite repeating. What separates it from a printed version is the relief: after the rug comes off the loom a weaver cuts around every motif with hand shears, dropping the ground a few millimeters so the pattern stands up off it. Run a hand across the surface and you can feel where the outline is before you can see it. Bamboo viscose in the motifs takes light the way silk does, which is why the purple reads violet from one end of a room and near-plum from the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnotted by hand in India. The shine that makes the pattern legible also picks up footmarks, and on a cream ground they will show until the pile is brushed back the other way — worth knowing before this goes in a hallway. Seven sizes exist, from a small mat up to the salon piece, and two of them are proper corridor runners rather than rugs cut short.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does carving mean on a hand-knotted rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarving is a finishing operation. After weaving, a worker trims the pile along the outline of each motif with hand shears, so the ground sits lower than the pattern. The result is a relief you can feel with a palm, and it is done piece by piece rather than by machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eDoes an Oushak-pattern rug have to come from Oushak?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo. Oushak names both a town in western Anatolia and the family of large-scale floral and medallion drawings that came out of it from the sixteenth century onward. 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Hand-knotted in India in purple, in the Oushak family of large floral drawings, over a surface of wool, cotton and bamboo viscose. Six sizes are made, up to 255 × 380 cm (8'4\" × 12'6\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePurple is a hard color to keep from going flat, and the carving is what stops it: the trimmed outline throws a shadow of its own, so the field reads as two purples rather than one, and the depth changes as you walk past. Dense knotting is the second half of the answer, because the Oushak drawing depends on thin scroll lines that a loose weave simply loses. Against walnut, brass and unbleached linen it looks its age; in a white room it is the whole argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnotted in India, on a cotton foundation, with bamboo viscose worked through the pattern for its shine. Two of the six sizes are long runners, one of them 85 × 400 cm (2'9\" × 13'1\"), cut for corridors rather than shortened from a rug. 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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. 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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. 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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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Manchester cotton in the foundation, wool above it. The pattern has been woven in western Anatolia for centuries; this piece was tied in India, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTan and orange is the oldest Oushak palette there is, and it survives because it does something no other combination manages — it puts warmth on a floor without going red. Beige lifts the passages that need lifting, and the near-black navy provides the outline that keeps the whole thing from blurring. Among modern furniture it is the only warm object in the room; in a classical setting it becomes the connecting tissue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wool has the shine that comes from a good clip, and the Manchester cotton underneath, a higher grade than standard cotton and brighter, carries the structure. Density is high, which a design with this much small drawing requires. It moves from sitting rooms to dining rooms to large offices without looking out of place in any of them. Professional cleaning, and it is the color range that is worth protecting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India with Manchester cotton and lustrous wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTobacco brown, orange and beige, with near-black navy for the outline.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe classical Oushak palette, woven in western Anatolia for centuries.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHigh knot density, which the fine drawing requires.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits sitting rooms, dining rooms and large offices.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrange is the color that dates fastest in a room and slowest in a rug, and the Oushak weavers worked that out five hundred years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 360 X 276","offer_id":44659645055209,"sku":"BOZSAL000009.01","price":380000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaUsakDesenliTabaYunHali_1.jpg?v=1709629128"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-klasik-usak-desenli-bordo-hali","title":"Burgundy and Earth-Tone Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese were woven in Türkiye until Anatolian hand-knotting thinned out; now they come from India. This one is a classic Oushak in burgundy and earth tones, tied by hand in wool over a Manchester cotton spine. The design sits in the classical literature and has been produced for hundreds of years. Single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed is what you see first and the earth tones are what hold it. The reds are deep and bright at once, a function of wool taking dye well rather than of the dye itself, and the browns and tans around them absorb enough of the energy to make the rug livable. Under heavy classical furniture it looks inevitable. In a plain modern room it becomes the cultural object, and it changes the register of everything near it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eManchester cotton forms the spine and wool sits above it, on the surface and through the ground. The knotting is tight and the count is high, and eight to ten months is what a piece of this size takes at that density. The same density is why these rugs get passed down instead of replaced: the structure outlasts the fashion. Keep it away from chemicals and let people who clean rugs for a living clean it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India, to a design once woven in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eManchester cotton spine; wool on the surface and through the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDeep, bright reds balanced by brown and tan earth tones.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTight, high-count knotting.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEight to ten months at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads as inevitable under heavy classical furniture, and as the one cultural object in a plain room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo chemicals; cleaning by professionals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern is in the classical literature, which means somebody will still recognize it a century from now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 366X277","offer_id":45712733634793,"sku":"BOZSAL000010.01","price":390000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaKlasikUsakDesenliBordoHali_1.jpg?v=1709629014"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-usak-desenli-bordo-pamuk-hali","title":"Burgundy Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurgundy over tan, with cream drawing spread right across the field: a hand-knotted wool rug in the Oushak manner, 272 × 367 cm (8'11\" × 12'0\"). 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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":"safir-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-oymali-hali-12","title":"Blue Carved Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Rug, Safir Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEighty centimeters wide and four meters ten long at the top of the range — 2'7\" × 13'5\" — this is a rug drawn for a corridor, and it is made down to 90 × 150 cm (2'11\" × 4'11\") as well. 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Cream Oushak Handwoven Wool Rug from the Harem series \u0026mdash; Erzurum wool, woven in T\u0026uuml;rkiye, carrying Oushak motifs of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries redrawn for a modern floor, at 145 \u0026times; 198 cm (4'9\" \u0026times; 6'6\") and 171 \u0026times; 219 cm (5'7\" \u0026times; 7'2\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak \u0026mdash; U\u0026#351;ak in Turkish, in western Anatolia \u0026mdash; is the weaving region whose large medallions and open fields turn up in European painting from the fifteenth century onward, and the drawing here comes from that period rather than from the nineteenth-century revivals. What has changed is the scale and the palette: a cream ground, the figures loosened, the framing simplified. It is a classical rug that a room without a single antique in it can carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErzurum fleece is soft, holds a shine and wears hard, which is the combination the eastern Anatolian flocks are valued for. The double knot doubles the anchoring at each point of the drawing, and the result is a denser, heavier rug whose motifs keep their edges instead of blurring with traffic. It is woven for Hal\u0026#305;c\u0026#305;zade by \u0026#199;\u0026#305;nhar, a Turkish mill. Two pieces are in stock, one in each size, and their measurements differ because a knotted rug is finished at the loom rather than cut. Professional washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in T\u0026uuml;rkiye from Erzurum wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDouble-knot technique \u0026mdash; denser and heavier, and the drawing holds its edges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak motifs of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, redrawn at a modern scale.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with the figures loosened and the framing simplified.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven for Hal\u0026#305;c\u0026#305;zade by the Turkish mill \u0026#199;\u0026#305;nhar.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e145 \u0026times; 198 cm and 171 \u0026times; 219 cm, one piece of each.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost cream rugs go quiet in a room; this one keeps a pattern old enough to have been painted, and lets you use it anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Cream \/ 145 X 198","offer_id":44572205121769,"sku":"ÇINHAR000139.01","price":142000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Cream \/ 171 X 219","offer_id":47906970730729,"sku":"ÇINHAR000139.02","price":185000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/HaremSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaSalonHalisi_12.jpg?v=1709560666"},{"product_id":"retro-serisi-el-dokuma-kahverengi-vintage-hali","title":"Brown Vintage Hand-Knotted Square Wool Rug, Retro Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSquare rugs are uncommon and this is a true square: 240 × 240 cm (7'10\" × 7'10\"), hand-knotted in brown for the Retro series, its Oushak motifs recolored into a contemporary palette. Wool and cotton, tied in Pakistan and Afghanistan, one piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA square changes the arithmetic of a room. There is no long axis to line the furniture up against, so a seating group arranged on it turns inward instead of facing one way, and the pattern arrives the same from all four sides. The Oushak drawing has been pulled into brown values throughout, and the finishing wash used across the series leaves the pile bright enough that the rug lifts a dim room rather than darkening it further.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMaster weavers in Afghanistan and Pakistan tie the whole series by hand, at a high knot count, over a thin structure of cotton and wool with a small quantity of recycled synthetic yarn worked into the skeleton for strength. Everything underfoot is wool. Two things follow from a square of this size: it is heavy, and there is no obvious way to hang it. Professional washing.\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\u003eCotton and wool structure with a trace of recycled synthetic yarn in the skeleton; the pile is wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTraditional Oushak motifs recolored into brown throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA bright surface from the series' finishing wash, so it lightens a room rather than darkening it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e240 × 240 cm (7'10\" × 7'10\"), a true square, which turns a seating group inward.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHeavy for its footprint, and awkward to hang.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePut four chairs around it and the room stops having a front.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Brown \/ 240 X 240","offer_id":44726608953577,"sku":"SAROVR000176.01","price":144000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/RetroSerisiVintageDesenliElDokumaHali_1_7db281fe-86a1-4442-bfc7-c6f0e7c4af0f.jpg?v=1709560081"},{"product_id":"safir-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-oymali-mor-yuvarlak-hali","title":"Purple Oushak Carved Handwoven Round Rug, Safir Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSafir is the Turkish word for sapphire; the rug itself is lilac-purple rather than blue, and the name belongs to the series, not to the color. Purple Oushak Carved Handwoven Round Rug from the Safir series \u0026mdash; round, with every motif edge cut in by hand, woven in India from cotton, wool, bamboo viscose and viscose, at 150 \u0026times; 150 cm and 200 \u0026times; 200 cm.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarving is the technique the series is built on. After the pile is set, a weaver takes shears to the surface and cuts a channel along the outline of every motif, so the drawing sits in its own relief and throws a shadow. On a round rug that matters more than on a rectangle, because there is no straight border to tell you where the pattern begins. The Oushak figures \u0026mdash; the medallion families of western Anatolia \u0026mdash; have been reworked here at a scale and in a palette with nothing classical about it: lilac shading to a deeper purple, with cream and gray coming through.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePurple is not a neutral and this rug does not pretend to be one. It sits well with gray and cream and it fights almost anything warm, which is worth settling before it arrives. The knot count is high, since a loose pile will not hold a cut edge, and the four yarns in the surface give it both softness and a light sheen. A round rug also asks something of the room: it wants space around it and will look like a mistake pushed against a wall. Cleaning is professional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in India from cotton, wool, bamboo viscose and viscose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEvery motif outline is carved by hand with shears, so the drawing stands in relief.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak medallion figures redrawn in lilac and purple, with cream and gray.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRound, at 150 \u0026times; 150 cm (4'11\" \u0026times; 4'11\") and 200 \u0026times; 200 cm (6'7\" \u0026times; 6'7\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHigh knot density \u0026mdash; carving will not hold on a loose pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads well with gray and cream; awkward beside warm colors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA round rug needs clear floor around it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRound rugs are usually chosen to soften a corner; this one is strong enough to be the reason for the corner.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Purple \/ 150 X 150","offer_id":45712210002153,"sku":"EKOSAP000014.01","price":67500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Purple \/ 200 X 200","offer_id":45712210034921,"sku":"EKOSAP000014.02","price":120000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EKOSAP000018.02_5_SafirSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaHali.jpg?v=1704979315"},{"product_id":"safir-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-oymali-yesil-yuvarlak-hali","title":"Sea-Green Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Carved Round Rug, Safir Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWool over cotton, with viscose and bamboo viscose held back for the pattern alone: this is a round Safir Series rug in sea-green, its Oushak motifs cut into relief by hand once the weaving was done. A high knot count is what makes that possible — a drawing has to be dense before it can be sculpted. Made in India for this house, and only one was woven.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSea-green holds most of the field, pale enough to sit between burgundy wood and gray upholstery without arguing with either. The Oushak motifs are classical in origin and modern in scale, and because the shears have taken a fraction off the ground around each one, the pattern stays legible even where the light is flat. Cream and soft gray run through the drawing. Against dark walnut the green warms; against gray stone it cools and goes almost silver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFour yarns do four jobs. Cotton is the foundation, wool is the surface a foot meets, and viscose and bamboo viscose appear only in the motifs, where their sheen separates the pattern from the wool around it. Carving is done with shears, motif by motif, and it takes longer than weaving an equivalent flat-faced rug would. The tight knotting is not ornament; a loose weave cannot be carved at all without fraying at the cut. A rug washer should do the washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by hand in India for the Safir Series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCotton foundation, wool surface, with viscose and bamboo viscose reserved for the pattern.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSea-green field with cream and gray in the drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMotifs cut into relief with shears once the weaving is done.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRound — for an entrance, the center of a sitting room, or a bedside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSits with burgundy woods as easily as with gray and cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSingle piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreen takes longest to choose and longest to tire of, and this one is quiet enough to be lived with rather than admired.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Green \/ 210 X 210","offer_id":45712210591977,"sku":"EKOSAP000021.01","price":133000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EKOSAP000021_1_SafirSerisiUsakDesenliElDokumaHali.jpg?v=1704983840"},{"product_id":"safir-serisi-usak-desenli-el-dokuma-oymali-mor-yuvarlak-hali-2","title":"Purple Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Round Rug, Safir Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvery motif on this rug has been cut around with shears after knotting, so the pattern stands slightly above the ground instead of sitting flush with it. Purple Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Round Rug, Safir Series — hand-knotted in India, round, from 155 × 155 cm (5'1\" × 5'1\") to 200 × 200 cm (6'7\" × 6'7\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak — Uşak in Turkish — is a town and a weaving district in the Anatolian west, whose medallion-and-border drawing has been imitated since the sixteenth century. Here the motifs are redrawn at a modern scale and carried on a purple that sits close to lilac — a color that behaves oddly and usefully, going gray under a north window and warming toward wine under a filament bulb. The carving is what you notice second: run a hand across the surface and the border edges catch, because the pile has been trimmed down between the figures and left standing inside them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA dense knot count is what makes the carving possible; a loose weave would blur the moment the shears touched it. Cotton, wool, bamboo viscose and viscose are used together, and the shine in the motifs comes from the two cellulose yarns rather than from any finish. A round rug is unforgiving about placement, so measure the circle against the furniture before it arrives. Professional washing only, and carving of this kind should never meet a stiff brush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in India from cotton, wool, bamboo viscose and viscose.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe motifs are cut in relief with shears after weaving, one figure at a time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClassical Oushak drawing, redrawn at a contemporary scale.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePurple running toward lilac, which settles well next to gray and cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA high knot count holds the detail the carving depends on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRound, from 155 × 155 cm (5'1\" × 5'1\") to 200 × 200 cm (6'7\" × 6'7\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing; never brush the carved edges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does a carved rug mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCarving is a finishing operation. 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Take it to a rug washer, never a home machine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePure silk throughout, warp and weft included.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by hand in China in the traditional silk technique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream field with red borders and scattered leaf and flower forms.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA band of raised, tightly knotted flower heads inside each fringe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e171 × 242 cm (5'7\" × 7'11\") — a sitting room, a study, an office.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDelicate: it wants a quiet floor and careful handling.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne example; the design is not rewoven to order.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does it mean that a rug is pure silk in the warp and weft?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMost silk rugs are silk only in the pile and use cotton for the structure underneath. 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A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFading is a design decision here and not an accident of age, and it changes what the rug does in a room. A solid blue field pulls the eye down; a broken, lightened one lets the floor breathe and makes the pattern read as though it had been in place a long time. At 84 cm this is the narrow end of the runner range, which is the width for a real corridor rather than a wide hall — the sort of passage where anything broader rides up against the skirting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pile is wool; cotton carries it underneath. This is a power loom's work, even and repeatable, which is what a loom is for, and that evenness is what allows the faded effect to be controlled at all: the lightening is drawn into the design rather than left to the sun. It will not go on fading. What it will do is show the traffic line down the middle sooner than a dark patterned rug would, because a pale ground shows everything first. A rug washer handles this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMachine-woven in Türkiye; wool pile over a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA deliberately faded blue ground with the Oushak drawing in stronger tone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e84 × 302 cm (2'9\" × 9'11\") — narrow, for a true corridor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe fading is designed in and will not develop further.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA pale ground shows a traffic line sooner than a dark one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA rug washer, when it needs cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNothing in a house is walked on as hard as a runner, and this one tells you in advance where that will show.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 84 X 302","offer_id":45556683964649,"sku":"HALBER000011.01","price":17800.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/BercesteSerisiUsakDesenliKlasikTasarimMaviYunHali_2.jpg?v=1710332085"},{"product_id":"berceste-serisi-doygun-zeminli-usak-desenli-mavi-yun-yolluk-hali","title":"Blue Saturated-Ground Oushak Machine-Woven Wool Runner, Berceste Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlue at full saturation is the point of this one: the ground holds its color instead of being washed back, and the Oushak drawing sits into it rather than floating above it. A machine-woven wool and cotton runner made in Türkiye, 99 × 301 cm (3'3\" × 9'11\"), Berceste Series. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA saturated ground behaves like a painted wall. It fills the space it covers and sets the temperature of everything around it, so in a hall with white walls it becomes the color in a space that has none. In a room that already carries a strong blue this is the piece that will fight, and it is worth putting the two next to one another before deciding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool where it is walked on, cotton where it is held together. A machine set the pile and nothing here pretends otherwise; the trade-off is the usual one, in that the drawing is exact and the surface is even and there is none of the irregularity that makes a hand-knotted rug interesting close up. Deep color also hides more than pale color does, which is the practical argument for this one in a kitchen or a passage where shoes come through. Cleaning goes out to a professional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMachine-woven in Türkiye, wool surface over cotton.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA full-strength blue ground with an Oushak field drawn into it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e99 × 301 cm (3'3\" × 9'11\") — kitchen, passage, or the length of a hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eStrong color sets the temperature of a room; test it against what is already there.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA dark ground hides day-to-day traffic better than a pale one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eEven and exact, without a village rug's irregularity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning goes out to a professional.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eColor at this strength is a commitment, and a corridor is the easiest place in a house to make one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 99 X 301","offer_id":45556697333993,"sku":"HALBER000007.01","price":21000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/BercesteSerisiKlasikTasarimUsakDesenliMaviYunHali_2.jpg?v=1706094228"},{"product_id":"berceste-serisi-krem-zeminli-usak-desenli-mavi-yun-yolluk-hali","title":"Blue Oushak Machine-Woven Wool Runner on Cream, Berceste Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe unusual thing here is that the ground is cream and the blue is the drawing on top of it, which reverses the arrangement the rest of this series uses. A machine-woven wool and cotton runner from the Berceste Series, Oushak-patterned, 100 × 284 cm (3'3\" × 9'4\"), made in Türkiye. Only this one, at this size.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReversing ground and figure changes the weight of a rug entirely. Blue on cream reads light and drawn, like ink on paper; cream on blue reads solid and woven. For a hall with little daylight the pale version is the one that works, because it gives back what light there is instead of absorbing it, and the Oushak forms stay legible in a passage where a dark rug becomes a shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton warp and weft under a wool face. This one came off a machine loom in Türkiye, and that is why the drawing holds its register the whole way down — worth saying, because a cream ground shows an uneven repeat far more clearly than a dark one would. The honest drawback is the color: cream in a corridor is where shoes go, and it will want washing more often than any of its darker siblings. Wash it through a specialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMachine-woven in Türkiye, wool over a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground with the Oushak drawing carried in blue.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100 × 284 cm (3'3\" × 9'4\") — a hall, or the run beside a kitchen island.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pale ground gives light back in a passage that has little.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning will come round sooner than it does for the darker runners here.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn exact repeat, end to end.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOnly this one, at this size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery other runner in this series puts the blue underneath, and the difference this one makes is visible from the far end of a corridor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 100 X 284","offer_id":45556713423081,"sku":"HALBER000001.01","price":20000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/BercesteSerisiKlasikTasarimUsakDesenliMaviYunPamukHali_2.jpg?v=1706092558"},{"product_id":"berceste-serisi-koyu-zeminli-usak-desenli-mavi-yun-yolluk-hali","title":"Dark Blue Oushak Machine-Woven Wool Runner, Berceste Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSay the drawback first: on a dark ground the Oushak drawing needs light to be seen at all, and a dim corridor will flatten it to a single deep blue. That is also its advantage. Woven on a machine loom in Türkiye, wool over cotton, 100 × 300 cm (3'3\" × 9'10\"), Berceste Series.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeep blue is the color that does the most work underfoot in a house where people arrive in shoes. It takes the daily traffic of a hall without showing it; it sits as well under timber as under a painted wall; and it makes the doorway it runs toward look further off than it is. Put it where there is a window or a lamp, though, because under a light the pattern comes back and the rug becomes a drawing again instead of a dark stripe on the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo fibers: wool above, cotton below. Machine weaving is what makes a runner like this possible at all, and the house makes no attempt to dress it up — the pile is set mechanically and the finishing is what it is. Wool still behaves like wool, which means it recovers from a footprint and takes a wash. One, and it will not be repeated in these dimensions. It is a professional wash, not a home one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMachine-woven in Türkiye, wool surface on cotton.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA dark blue ground carrying a classical Oushak drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100 × 300 cm (3'3\" × 9'10\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHides hall traffic, and needs light to show its pattern.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool recovers from compression in a way synthetics do not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA professional wash, not a home one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne, and not repeated in these dimensions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn daylight it is a patterned rug and after dark it is a length of deep blue, and a hallway can use both.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 100 X 300","offer_id":45557026685161,"sku":"HALBER000004.01","price":21000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/BercesteSerisiUsakDesenliMaviKlasikTasarimYunPamukHali_2.jpg?v=1706092755"},{"product_id":"berceste-serisi-genis-bordurlu-usak-desenli-mavi-yun-yolluk-hali","title":"Blue Wide-Border Oushak Machine-Woven Wool Runner, Berceste Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe border is the story: a wide band frames this runner on all four sides and takes up more of it than a border usually does, which pulls the Oushak field into a narrower, denser line down the middle. Made in Türkiye on a machine loom, wool over cotton, 100 × 317 cm (3'3\" × 10'5\"). A single runner.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorder width is one of the quiet decisions in rug design, and on a long narrow piece it decides everything. A wide frame shortens the field optically, so a three-meter runner reads as a series of contained panels instead of one long corridor of pattern — which is what you want in a passage with doors opening off it, because the rug stops competing with the architecture and starts organizing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe loom is mechanical. The wool is still wool, over a cotton ground, and the border is where that combination earns itself: a broad band of one tone shows any unevenness in the weave immediately, and this one runs regular the whole way round. Blue throughout, in the classical register the Oushak drawing belongs to. Vacuum it like any wool pile; the deep clean goes out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMachine-woven in Türkiye, wool pile over cotton.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA wide border on all four sides, with the Oushak field held inside it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100 × 317 cm (3'3\" × 10'5\") — a long passage with doors off it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe wide frame breaks the length up instead of drawing it out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA broad plain band shows weave faults; this one is even throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSend it out to be cleaned.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single runner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost runners try to make a corridor look longer, and this is among the few that do the opposite.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 100 X 317","offer_id":45557133607145,"sku":"HALBER000013.01","price":22200.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/BercesteSerisiUsakDesenliMaviYunPamukKlasikHali_2.jpg?v=1706094520"},{"product_id":"berceste-serisi-pudra-tonlu-usak-desenli-mavi-yun-yolluk-hali","title":"Blue and Powder-Pink Oushak Machine-Woven Wool Runner, Berceste Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBerceste is an old word from Ottoman poetry for a line so well made that it is remembered on its own, and the series is named for that. This runner carries powder-pink tones through a blue Oushak field, woven by machine in Türkiye, wool over cotton, at 98 × 320 cm (3'3\" × 10'6\"). One piece in this length.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePowder pink against blue is the softest combination the series makes, and it is the one that changes most with the light: by day the pink is a warm haze inside the blue drawing, and under a lamp it comes forward and reads almost as cream. That shift is the reason to put this one where it will be seen at both ends of the day — a hall used in the morning and again at night, rather than a back passage nobody looks at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe wool is on top and the cotton is doing the structural work underneath. Woven by machine in Türkiye: the shortcut is in the labor and not in the fiber, and the wool underfoot is the same material a hand-knotted rug would use. Pale tones in a runner are the honest risk here — powder pink will show what a dark ground swallows, and a house with a dog and a back door should probably take one of the darker pieces in this series. Professional cleaning when it needs it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMachine-woven in Türkiye, wool surface over a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePowder-pink tones set into a blue Oushak field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e98 × 320 cm (3'3\" × 10'6\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pink warms and lightens under lamplight; it is not a fixed tone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBerceste is a word from Ottoman poetry for a line remembered on its own.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePale tones show more than dark ones; choose accordingly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning when it needs it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the quietest runner in the series, and quiet is usually what a corridor wants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 98 X 320","offer_id":45557146353897,"sku":"HALBER000010.01","price":22000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/BercesteSerisiKlasikTasarimUsakDesenliMaviYunHali_2_00e822e5-a0df-4124-9906-ade4819793a1.jpg?v=1706094295"},{"product_id":"usak-desenli-el-dokuma-hali-krem-ipek-hali","title":"Cream and Burgundy Oushak-Pattern Hand-Knotted Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA burgundy Seljuk star sits at the middle of this cream silk rug, with gold-yellow spreading out around it and turquoise picked out in the smaller motifs. Hand-knotted in China in 100% silk, 167 × 241 cm (5'6\" × 7'11\"), in the Oushak tradition of western Anatolia. A single example.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe eight-pointed star is one of the constants of Anatolian art, and it is used here the way a jewel is used in a setting: one dark, saturated form holding a field that would otherwise float. Gold-yellow runs out from it across the cream in thin, sunlit strokes. The turquoise appears only in small quantities, which is how that color has always been used in Anatolian work — enough to cool the reds, never enough to compete with them. Every step changes the sheen, so the star looks lit from one side of the room and inked from the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll silk, tied by hand in China over a long production. A silk pile of this fineness is soft and fluid rather than springy: it lies down under a foot and comes back slowly, which is one of the ways a silk rug is identified by touch alone. The Oushak repertoire it draws on comes from the weaving towns of western Anatolia, where the pattern family has been in use since the sixteenth century. Day to day it needs no more than a vacuum. 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From the Efsun series, machine-woven in Türkiye at a reed count of one hundred, in viscose and synthetic yarns, and made in three sizes. Oushak here names the pattern family, not the place the rug was made.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe border is layered rather than single — a wide cream band, a narrow red water line on each side of it, and a navy edge outside all of them, with cream fringes at both ends. The effect the rug produces does not come from the contrast between navy and cream; it comes from how densely the motifs are packed, and reed count is the number behind that. At a hundred reeds the blossoms in the ground are small enough to sit inside a centimeter and the points of the leaves survive, while the red water lines in the border, only a few threads wide, run unbroken instead of stuttering. A coarser weave would lose both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eViscose gives the cream and gold a luster that shifts through the day while the navy stays matt, so the pattern separates itself from the ground by light as well as by color and the rug shows two different faces between morning and evening. A navy ground is the practical choice in a room that gets used, since footmarks and small marks are far less visible on it than on a pale field, and it is the wrong choice in a room that already has navy walls or navy upholstery, where the floor will merge into everything else. Viscose weakens when wet, so blot a spill with a dry cloth instead of pouring water on it. The fringes tangle over time and are combed out by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIs an Oushak-pattern rug woven in Oushak?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot necessarily. 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Brown Oushak Handwoven Wool Rug from the Ottoman series: first-grade Erzurum fleece, double-knotted in T\u0026uuml;rkiye, a warm brown field inside a softened blue border, at 206 \u0026times; 273 cm (6'9\" \u0026times; 8'11\") and 206 \u0026times; 283 cm (6'9\" \u0026times; 9'3\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrown and blue is an old Anatolian pairing and a difficult one to get right, because a brown too far toward red turns the blue purple. This brown stays on the earth side of the range and the blue in the border is softened almost to slate, so the two meet without either winning. The Oushak figures in the field have been reworked rather than copied \u0026mdash; the drawing is looser than a classical original and the ground left more open \u0026mdash; and the effect is a formal rug that does not require a formal room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErzurum fleece is the wool eastern Anatolian weavers reach for: it holds a shine, takes dye evenly and wears hard. The double knot, which few workshops still use, ties each point of the drawing twice, giving a denser body and edges that stay sharp under traffic. Both sizes are single pieces, and the ten-centimeter difference in length between them is what happens when a rug is finished at the loom. Washing is a specialist job, and it should be done rarely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in T\u0026uuml;rkiye by Has Hal\u0026#305; from first-grade Erzurum fleece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDouble-knot technique \u0026mdash; two ties at each point, now rarely used.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA tughra-shaped signature is worked into the back.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWarm brown field inside a softened blue border, with the Oushak figures reworked.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e206 \u0026times; 273 cm and 206 \u0026times; 283 cm \u0026mdash; one piece of each.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece: shining, evenly dyed, hard-wearing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing, and not often.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eQuestions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is the tughra on the back of this rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tughra is the calligraphic cipher used as a signature by Ottoman sultans. Here the shape serves as a maker's mark: Has Hal\u0026#305; works it into the back of the pieces it weaves, and it is how a rug from this workshop can be identified after it leaves the shop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does the double-knot technique change?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach point of the drawing is tied twice rather than once. The rug comes out denser and heavier, the motif edges stay sharp instead of blurring as the pile wears, and the piece takes considerably longer to weave, which is why few workshops still use the method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"FAQPage\",\n  \"mainEntity\": [\n    {\n      \"@type\": \"Question\",\n      \"name\": \"What is the tughra on the back of this rug?\",\n      \"acceptedAnswer\": {\n        \"@type\": \"Answer\",\n        \"text\": \"A tughra is the calligraphic cipher used as a signature by Ottoman sultans. 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Cream Oushak Carved Handwoven Wool Rug, Safir series — wool and cotton with bamboo viscose, made in India, at 95 × 160 cm and 135 × 190 cm (3'1\" × 5'3\" and 4'5\" × 6'3\").\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream is the hardest ground for carved work, because there is no contrast to help the drawing and the relief has to do all of it. It does: pass a palm over it and the motifs register before the eye has found them. The Oushak forms are the classical western Anatolian ones, redrawn in pastel rather than in the old madder reds, so the rug keeps the shape of a traditional piece and takes the color of a new one. Bamboo viscose catches light in the figures and makes them read against the cream.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA high knot count is what the carving requires — shears cannot cut a clean line into a loose weave. Wool and cotton form the pile itself; the bamboo viscose sits inside the pattern. 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Brown Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool-and-Silk Rug, Harem series, 162 × 239 cm (5'4\" × 7'10\"), knotted in Türkiye by Çınar Halı, in browns and creams. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrown with cream is the oldest Oushak pairing and the least demanding of a room: the drawing stays legible without contrast doing the work, so the rug sits under furniture instead of arguing with it. The motifs are the classical Uşak vocabulary — branching vine, open forms, a border that repeats without quite repeating — and at 162 × 239 cm they are drawn at a size that survives a table standing in the middle of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eÇınar Halı weaves the Harem series, and the construction is why the house files it under rare: the Gördes knot, symmetrical, tied over two warps, at a density that takes far longer to work than the alternative. Silk runs through the pile alongside the wool and does what silk does, holding light where wool absorbs it. Rugs of this weaving class are harder to source every year, which is a statement about supply rather than a sales line. 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The classical Uşak drawing is worked at close knot density, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurgundy holds the ground; beige does the drawing. Oushak — the English name for Uşak — is a rug town out in the west of Anatolia, and its repertoire — broad medallions, angular floral arabesques, a border that repeats rather than narrates — has been copied out of that town for centuries. Here the beige runs cool against the deep red and warms up under lamplight, which is when the silk in the motifs shows itself. Silk takes light at a different angle from wool, so parts of the pattern lift out of the ground as you move past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rug was made by the Çınar mill from wool and silk yarns. Erzurum first-shearing fleece is the wool: the fleece taken from a sheep's first clip, brighter and softer than later shearings and unusually strong for how soft it is. The knot is the Gördes, tied symmetrically over two warps, which is slower per row than the alternative and holds a curve without letting it blur. Rugs knotted this densely in wool and silk are made in smaller numbers every year. Wash it through a specialist and nobody else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye by the Çınar mill, in wool and silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum first-shearing fleece — the first clip from the animal, and the brightest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGördes double knot, tied over two warps at close density.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground with the Uşak drawing in beige, lifted by silk in the motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e164 × 242 cm (5'5\" × 7'11\") — a hall, a study, or under a small dining table.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRugs at this weaving class are getting harder to source each year.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing only. 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Brick, mustard, blue and navy, all of it in wool, with plant dyes and synthetic dyes both used to get there.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA central medallion anchors the field and the corner pieces answer it — the classical Anatolian arrangement, where the corners are quarters of the same medallion cut by the border. Brick red carries the ground. Mustard picks out the interior drawing and reads almost gold where daylight crosses it, then settles back to ochre in a lamplit room. Blue and navy are held for the outlines and the border, so the pattern keeps its edges from a standing height instead of dissolving into warm color.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was knotted in Uşak in 2023, in wool throughout, from a drawing taken line for line off a documented historical example rather than adapted from one. The yarn was colored with a mix: madder and other plant dyes for some of it, synthetic dyes for the rest, and rather than describe the whole rug as plant-dyed, the house names both. Plant-dyed yarn moves in tone from batch to batch, so expect the field to shift a little in bands across its width — that is abrash, and on a rug this size it is the difference between a weaving and a print. 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Knotted by hand in Pakistan in the Oushak drawing tradition of western Anatolia, wool face over a cotton foundation. This length is a single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe border is doing more here than edging the rug. It is a wide band of warm brown, and against it the cream field looks lighter than it is, which is the trick that makes a narrow runner feel like an opening rather than a strip. Inside, the Oushak motifs curl rather than repeat mechanically — the eye is led along the length by the drawing itself, which is what these patterns were designed to do. Green, gold and terracotta sit in the motifs; brown holds the outside; nothing is at full saturation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWeavers in Pakistan knotted it, working the Anatolian double knot, which ties around two warps and produces a pile that keeps a runner's shape in a corridor where the traffic always goes the same way. The face is wool. Under it sits cotton, with a small synthetic thread run through for strength — stated here rather than glossed over. The yarns were dyed by hand, so the browns run from chestnut through to gold along the length and the cream is not one cream. That variation is the difference between this and an industrially colored rug.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMade in Pakistan, knot by knot, on the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool face; cotton foundation, lightly reinforced with synthetic yarn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground, green and gold motifs, a wide warm brown border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-dyed yarns: the tones move along the length rather than staying uniform.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOushak drawing — the pattern tradition of western Anatolia, woven here in Pakistan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e79 × 253 cm (2'7\" × 8'4\") — an entrance hall or a short corridor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThin in the hand but densely knotted; it will take daily traffic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing. One runner at this length.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHalls take more footfall than any other floor in a house and are almost always given the cheapest rug; this is the opposite decision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Brown \/ 79 X 253","offer_id":47272784560361,"sku":"KERMAH000012.01","price":42000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliKahverengiYunHali_6.jpg?v=1716390415"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-yun-kahverengi-hali","title":"Brown Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Runner, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThree meters of it, and barely seventy-five centimeters across: this is a handwoven wool runner in the Mahal series, made in two lengths — 75 × 304 cm (2'6\" × 10'0\") and 70 × 303 cm (2'4\" × 9'11\") — with gold and earth-toned Oushak motifs laid over a dark brown ground and a pale, wide border holding them in. Wool surface, cotton foundation, woven in Pakistan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak is the English form of Uşak, a weaving town in the west of Anatolia, and weavers elsewhere have been copying its drawing for four hundred years. What the copies keep is the curve: stems that bend rather than turn corners, blossoms opened flat. On this brown ground the gold sits close in tone, so the pattern does not shout across the room — it pulls the eye from one end of a corridor to the other, which is the job a runner is actually for. The light border works like a margin on a page and keeps the dark field from swallowing the walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is knotted by hand in Pakistan by weavers working the Anatolian double knot, the symmetrical knot that closes over two warps and holds a straight line better than a single one does. The yarns are dyed by hand before weaving, which is why the gold reads brassy in daylight and almost bronze under a lamp. Underneath, the warp and weft are cotton, stiffened by a small percentage of synthetic yarn — a detail the house prints rather than calling the rug all-natural. The hand is on the firm side — good in a hallway, less inviting underfoot than a thick pile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKnotted by hand in Pakistan with the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool surface over a cotton foundation, with a small proportion of synthetic yarn for strength.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDark brown ground, gold and earth-toned Oushak motifs, wide pale border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven in two lengths: 75 × 304 cm (2'6\" × 10'0\") and 70 × 303 cm (2'4\" × 9'11\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-dyed yarn, so the gold moves between brass and bronze with the light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA firm rather than a plush surface, which is what stands up in a passage.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSend it to a rug washer when it needs a real clean.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCorridors are where rugs get walked on hardest and looked at least, and this one is built for the first and rewards the second.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Brown \/ 75 X 304","offer_id":47236310401257,"sku":"KERMAH000033.02","price":48000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Brown \/ 70 X 303","offer_id":47236310434025,"sku":"KERMAH000033.01","price":45000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-yun-kahverengi-hali-45273.jpg?v=1715784882"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-kahverengi-usak-desenli-yun-hali","title":"Cream and Brown Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Runner, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe broad brown border is the first thing you see, and it is what holds the rug together: a hand-knotted Mahal runner in wool, 78 × 216 cm (2'7\" × 7'1\"), with gold, earth and soft green motifs on a light ground. Knotted in Pakistan; the face is wool and the structure below it is cotton. The shortest runner in this group, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt just over two meters it is a passage rug rather than a corridor rug — the length of a doorway approach, a galley kitchen, the space between a bed and a wall. The border takes a disproportionate share of that length, which is why it reads as a frame around a picture rather than a trim around a floor. Inside the frame the Oushak motifs are pale and open: gold and soft green on light cream, with earth tones filling between them. The contrast is low enough that the rug will not shorten a small room the way a dark patterned runner does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt comes from workshops in Pakistan, where the Anatolian double-knot technique has been kept in daily use. The pile is wool. Beneath it, cotton warps and wefts do the structural work, and a thread of synthetic yarn is added so a narrow rug holds its line over years of being walked down the middle. Hand-dyed yarn is what produces the chestnut-to-gold movement across the border; two runs of the same color never come out identical, and neither do two rugs. Have it washed professionally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Pakistan on the double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile; cotton structure with a thread of synthetic yarn in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWide brown border enclosing gold, earth and soft green Oushak motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e78 × 216 cm (2'7\" × 7'1\") — short passages, galley kitchens, bedsides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLow contrast, so it does not visually shorten a small space.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-dyed yarns give the border its chestnut-to-gold movement.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDense enough for a route that gets walked several times a day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing. A single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShort runners are the hardest size to buy well, because there is nowhere for a weak pattern to hide.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Brown \/ 78 X 216","offer_id":47272851112169,"sku":"KERMAH000034.01","price":35500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiElDokumaKahverengiUsakDesenliYunHali_2.jpg?v=1716391293"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-bordo-yun-hali","title":"Burgundy Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Runner, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMahal Series Burgundy Oushak Runner: a handwoven wool runner on a cotton foundation, deep burgundy underneath, cream and earth-toned Oushak flowers over the top, made in Pakistan in two lengths — 79 × 291 cm and 83 × 304 cm. The narrow format is the point; it is drawn for a corridor, an entrance hall or the gap between two rooms.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurgundy is not one color on this rug. The yarn was dyed by hand in small lots, so the ground travels from something close to sour cherry at one end to a flat deep wine at the other, and the change is gradual enough that you notice it only by walking the length. Against that, the cream florals read almost white in daylight and go ivory by lamplight. Oushak drawing gives them room to breathe — the field is not packed, and the flowers are allowed to sit apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe weavers are in Pakistan, working a technique that came out of Anatolia, and the knotting is tight enough that the pattern edges stay clean at this width. All the pile is wool; the warp and weft beneath it are cotton with a little synthetic yarn worked in, which the house declares rather than hides. The surface is firm — closer to canvas than to fleece — and that firmness means dust has less to settle into, and a weekly vacuum is enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Pakistan, knotted densely enough to keep the drawing sharp at runner width.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAll-wool pile; cotton foundation carrying a trace of synthetic yarn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy ground shifting between cherry and deep wine, with cream and earth-toned Oushak flowers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTwo lengths: 79 × 291 cm (2'7\" × 9'7\") and 83 × 304 cm (2'9\" × 10'0\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm underfoot rather than soft, which is why it holds its shape in a passage.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe low, tight surface gives dust little to settle into.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning; nothing at home will get through a wool pile properly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDark red on a floor is a commitment, and a hallway lets you make it without having to sit in it every evening.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Burgundy \/ 79 X 291","offer_id":47238810403049,"sku":"KERMAH000035.01","price":48500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true},{"title":"Burgundy \/ 83 X 304","offer_id":47238810435817,"sku":"KERMAH000035.02","price":53000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliBordoYunHali_2.jpg?v=1715846628"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-mavi-yun-hali","title":"Blue Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool Runner, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlue is unusual in this family of rugs, and that is the reason to start there: a wool runner from the Mahal series, hand-knotted, 78 × 256 cm (2'7\" × 8'5\"), with fine gold and cream scrollwork over a pale blue field and a cream border carrying warm brown. Knotted in Pakistan; wool on top, cotton underneath. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak drawing usually sits on cream, madder red or brown. Setting it on a pale blue changes what the pattern is for — the curling flower-and-leaf figures stop reading as antique and start reading as drawing, the way a blueprint does. Gold against light blue is a high-contrast pairing at close range and a soft one from the end of a hall. The cream border cools the whole thing down again and keeps the blue from taking over a narrow space. On a wooden floor the blue picks up the warmth of the boards and comes out slightly green; on stone it stays flatly blue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHands in Pakistan tied every knot, using the double knot that came out of Anatolia and never left the workshops that adopted it — two warps to a knot, slower to work, firmer in the finished rug. Wool is what your foot lands on, and nothing else. The structure below is cotton, and a measured amount of synthetic yarn goes in with it so the piece keeps its rectangle. Because the yarns were dyed by hand, the blue is not level: it moves a shade lighter and darker along the length, which is what tells you a person and not a machine chose when to stop a dye lot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Pakistan on the Anatolian double knot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool on the face; the cotton structure beneath carries a measured synthetic addition.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePale blue field, gold and cream Oushak scrollwork, cream border with warm brown.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e78 × 256 cm (2'7\" × 8'5\") — corridors, long entrance halls, narrow landings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-dyed yarn, so the blue shifts in tone along the rug.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm rather than thick; it stays flat and vacuums quickly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlue is a rarity in Oushak drawing, which is most of this piece's interest.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing. A single runner at this length.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHallways are usually painted to be forgotten; a blue runner is a way of declining that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 78 X 256","offer_id":47238862176489,"sku":"KERMAH000036.01","price":42000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliMaviYunHali_2.jpg?v=1715846998"},{"product_id":"mahal-serisi-el-dokuma-usak-desenli-yun-mavi-hali","title":"Blue Oushak-Pattern Handwoven Wool Runner, Mahal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe flowers come first on this one: terracotta and cream blossoms scattered over a blue that has been pulled back almost to pastel, framed by Oushak borders, on a handwoven wool runner measuring 80 × 300 cm, or 2'7\" × 9'10\". Wool pile, cotton foundation, knotted by hand in Pakistan.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA pale blue floor is unusual in a Turkish rug and it changes the arithmetic of the whole piece. Because the ground is quiet, the terracotta does not have to fight for attention, and the two sit at roughly equal weight instead of one dominating. The border repeats a classical Oushak figure at small scale, which is what stops the pastel from drifting into a nursery register. Hand-dyed yarn keeps the blue from ever going uniform — it lightens and gathers along the length, the way a wash of watercolor does.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe weaving is done in Pakistan at a close knot count, entirely by hand. The surface is wool through and through; below it, cotton warp and weft stiffened by a few synthetic threads. The rug is of middling thickness with a firm handle, which is the combination that keeps a three-meter runner from rucking up at the ends. Because every color was dyed in batches, no two lengths of this rug are tonally identical, and that is worth knowing before you order a second one to match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Pakistan at a close knot count.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile above; cotton warp and weft with a trace of synthetic yarn below.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePale blue ground with terracotta and cream florals and a small-scale Oushak border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e80 × 300 cm (2'7\" × 9'10\") — corridor, entrance hall or the foot of a bed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBatch-dyed yarn, so the blue lifts and settles along the length.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMedium thickness with a firm handle; it lies flat and stays flat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHave it washed by someone who washes rugs for a living.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the rare traditional pattern that will not darken a narrow hallway, and in a north-facing one it does the opposite.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Blue \/ 80 X 300","offer_id":47238887866601,"sku":"KERMAH000037.01","price":50500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/MahalSerisiElDokumaUsakDesenliYunMaviHali_2.jpg?v=1715847773"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/collections\/usak-800x500-tiklayin_d816bd67-1174-456a-a5dd-04918afb27fd.png?v=1784440609","url":"https:\/\/www.halicizade.com\/en\/collections\/usak-rugs.oembed?page=7","provider":"HALICIZADE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}