Rugs from the Turkish town of Doshemalti cannot be mistaken. The patterns are not too complex, a typical colour combination of red and blue, a geometrical motif… Yet there is something mysterious in their apparent simplicity - interpretation of the used symbolism is more difficult for an expert than it would seem.

Hereke is one of the rarest Turkish rugs. Originally Persian patterns, often of a prayer type, made of high-quality silk or wool, in both cases very fine work. With silk, the time of knotting is somewhere between 10 and 16 months for 1 square meter. Some rugs are knotted with a "gilt" thread. The shown piece is a unique work.

If only there were more rugs as the one in the picture. A true Kars is elegance itself; it will address you itself. It is knotted by Armenian clans on the forested plateaus of the Turkey-Armenia border.

At the Caucasus and with the Turkmen, the eagle is a symbol of power and might. We can find its figure in various degrees of stylisation in the rugs of these areas as well as in the regions where this symbolism was assumed. Such rugs are often called the "eagle kazak". They are most often made by the Kurds, Cherkeses and Armenians. The warp is made of goat hair.

Konya is located in central Turkey, in the 11th century it was the main administrative town of the Seljuk Empire. Smaller sizes are knotted here with the ghiordes knot, often geometrical motifs. Konya is also famous for its kelims

Kuba, a town in southern Caucasus, where rugs from this area are concentrated. Geometrical motifs are typical, the "S" pattern is used. They are among the Caucasian rugs of the finest quality.

Melas is situated not far from the Mediterranean Sea, rugs with woollen warp and Caucasian motifs have been made here since about 1750. The combination of beige and brown hues is an unmistakable colour design, the pile is of medium height and another characteristic feature is a somewhat coarser weave.§

The most beautiful geometric motifs come from this area. The Kurd tribes that moved from Shirwan to Anatolia knot them in the same quality up to the present day and call them by the same name. These are always purely woollen rugs dyed by rare natural dyes.

The term "sumak" denotes a rug woven in such a way that the long threads of the in-sewed pattern hang from the bottom side of the rug. The shown piece is made of high-quality wool and the light part is sewed in the rug with silk.