October 2018 - Aytek Rugs

Handmade carpets and handwoven carpets are not same

Handmade carpets practically define carpets made by hand instead of electrically powered looms. But here is the catch; some of them not so handmade. The thing is words are manipulated to meet with different purposes. Because real traditional carpets made in looms like the one in the picture, but some manufacturers find an easier solution: sewing wool to […]

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Selcuk, Konya Carpets through the history

A high point in the art of carpet making was to be achieved during the three centuries of the Selcuk Period but unfortunately, there are no examples from the period called the Great Selcuk Period. We do however have surviving carpets and fragments from the Anatolian Selcuk Period. These have been designated the “Konya Carpets”