All Posts in: Turkish Rugs

• Turkish Rugs: Buying Rugs in Turkey

  01.30.08 | 4 Comments

  Photo by Christiaan Briggs.

  Oriental Rugs Today: Chapter 4 Part 4
  Of all the rug-weaving countries in the world, Turkey may be the most fun for travelers looking to buy. Rugs and carpets have been made there for centuries, so travelers find rugs of all ages in the Turkish bazaars and a huge assortment of them from […]

• Turkish Rugs: Anadol, I.M. International and the Rest

  01.29.08 | Comment?

  Oriental Rugs Today: Chapter 4 Part 3. See the posts on Woven Legends and the DOBAG project for more about those productions.

  A gorgeous Turkish rug from Anadol with natural dyes and handspun wool pile.

  One of the earliest and best productions from Turkey was created by a Turkish gentleman named Suat Izmirili, who established Anadol Oriental […]

• Turkish Rugs: Woven Legends

  01.22.08 | 2 Comments

  Early Turkish Azeri from Woven Legends. The Weavers were given plenty of latitude to improvise, so something of the weavers’ personalities is visible. If it were not for that, this carpet may well have come off feeling very stiff and rigid.

  Oriental Rugs Today: Chapter 4 Part 2
  DOBAG was the start of the Oriental rug renaissance, […]

• Turkish Rugs: The DOBAG Project

  01.16.08 | 1 Comment

  Oriental Rugs Today: Chapter 4 Part 1
  The undisputed first mover of the renaissance of Oriental rugs was a German chemist named Harald Bohmer. In 1960 he took a seven-year teaching job in Turkey and, like many Westerners before and since, fell in love with Turkish rugs. He was different, though, in being especially interested in […]