Anatolian rug or Turkish carpet (Turkish: Türk Halısı) is a term of convenience, commonly used today to denote rugs and carpets woven in Anatolia and...

Persian rugs, Pakistani rugs, Arabian rugs, Anatolian rugs, Kurdish rugs, Caucasian rugs, Central Asian rugs, Turkestanian (Turkmen, Turkoman) rugs, Chinese...

کیلیم; Turkish: kilim; Turkmen: kilim ) is a flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug traditionally produced in countries of the former Persian Empire, including...

(Persian: فرش ایرانی, romanized: farš-e irâni [ˈfærʃe ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː]), Persian rug (Persian: قالی ایرانی, romanized: qâli-ye irâni [ɢɒːˈliːje ʔiː.ɹɒː.níː])...

of Transylvanian rugs constitutes one of the largest collections of Ottoman Anatolian rugs outside the Islamic world. Amongst the rugs carpets preserved...

other regions also). Historically Ushaks were classified as ‘Anatolian Rugs,’ Anatolian literally translating to ‘land of the rising sun.’ Today scholars...

A prayer rug or prayer mat is a piece of fabric, sometimes a pile carpet, used by Muslims, some Christians, especially in Orthodox Christianity and some...

of Scandinavian rug-making is among the most storied of all European rug-making traditions. Turkish carpets (also known as Anatolian), whether hand knotted...

Holbein actually only painted two); they are the commonest designs of Anatolian rug seen in Western Renaissance paintings, and continued to be produced...

 46–49) The "Dragon and Phoenix" and the "Marby" rugs were the only existing examples of Anatolian animal carpets known until 1988. Since then, seven...

weft. The Ghiordes/Turkish knot and the Senneh/Persian knot, typical of Anatolian carpets and Persian carpets, are the two primary knots. A flat or tapestry...

carpets, especially in Anatolian rugs of village or rural production, as well as in traditional Navajo weaving. A smaller rug can be woven continuously...

highlights in ivory. These rugs are sometimes confused with Baluchi rugs, a type of Afghan rug. Eastern Anatolian Yürük rugs have hexagonal and lozenge...

from Turkish tuzla, from the name of Lake Tuz in Turkey. A central Anatolian rug. Tzatziki from modern Greek tsatsiki, which is from Turkish cacık. Ugrian...

East Anatolian rug (detail), from the Şarkişla-Sivas region. Made c. 1800....

flat-woven rugs, each with many variations. In Turkish Anatolia in particular, village women wove themes significant for their lives into their rugs, whether...

hall, the reproduction of a painting by El Greco on one side and the Anatolian rug embroidery on the other reveals the general tendency of the group. The...

and rugs are primarily made in villages, rather than in cities. They are made from materials particular to individual tribal provinces, the rugs of the...

semi-nomadic group in Anatolia often referred to as Turkmen in Turkey Anatolian beyliks, small principalities in Anatolia governed by Beys, late 11th–13th...

second-generation Greek-American World War II veteran, a son of an Anatolian rug merchant who went broke after Black Tuesday. He has come to use the...

Carpets, which is still in print today. Rugs were traditionally woven in Anatolia. Surviving carpets in Anatolian mosques have been dated back to the 13th...

Scandinavia has a long and proud tradition of rug-making on par with many of the regions of the world that are perhaps more immediately associated with...

report: 1961. Anatolian Studies, vol. 12, pp. 41–65, 1962 J. Mellaart, Excavations at Çatal Hüyük, second preliminary report: 1962. Anatolian Studies, vol...

East Anatolian rug (detail), from the Şarkişla-Sivas region. Made ca. 1800...

Transylvanian Saxon merchants traded with the Ottoman Empire and often donated Anatolian rugs to their churches as a wall decoration more according to their iconoclastic...

tapestry technique of weaving sturdy, decorative fabrics used for carpets, rugs, domestic bags and bedding, with soumak fabrics used for bedding known as...

the largest collections of the so-called "Transylvanian" rugs, 16th–18th century Anatolian rugs in Europe. The church housed a large trove of incunabula...

America America (British title The Anatolian Smile) is a 1963 American drama film directed, produced and written by Elia Kazan. It was inspired by the...

port city. Benefiting from its location at the crossroads of the Central Anatolian plateau and the coastal Aegean Region, and from a climate and agricultural...

major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into...