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Kilim with carnation design, Anatolia, probably 18th -19th century. Collection of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, Toronto....
27/06/2021

Kilim with carnation design, Anatolia, probably 18th -19th century.
Collection of Marshall and Marilyn R. Wolf, Toronto.


Kilim with carnation design, Anatolia, probably 17th-18th century. Notice the beautiful asymmetry in the patterns...Vakı...
26/06/2021

Kilim with carnation design, Anatolia, probably 17th-18th century.
Notice the beautiful asymmetry in the patterns...

Vakıflar Kilim Museum, Istanbul, Inv. K.H.4.


Çatma panel with carnations, Bursa, Anatolia, late 16th to early 17th century; silk and metallic wrapped thread, velvet...
25/06/2021

Çatma panel with carnations, Bursa, Anatolia, late 16th to early 17th century; silk and metallic wrapped thread, velvet. 122.5 × 66 cm.
The Textile Museum 1.52, acquired by G.H. Myers in 1951.


On the table? Really?The Somerset House Conference, 1604 is an oil-on-canvas painting depicting the Somerset House Confe...
24/06/2021

On the table? Really?
The Somerset House Conference, 1604 is an oil-on-canvas painting depicting the Somerset House Conference held in 1604 to negotiate the end the Anglo-Spanish War. It is a group portrait, depicting the 11 representatives of the governments of England, Spain and the Spanish Netherlands, seated around a conference table, probably in Old Somerset House.
The painting bears a signature of Spanish painter Juan Pantoja de la Cruz and is dated 1594, but both signature and date are thought to be false. The painter is unknown but may be Flemish, possibly John De Critz (the Elder).
       

           

                      

Ҫanakkale. Turkish for “pottery castle.” A town and district of northwest Anatolia, located on the Dardanelles. Rug weav...
08/06/2021

Ҫanakkale. Turkish for “pottery castle.”
A town and district of northwest Anatolia, located on the Dardanelles.
Rug weaving is an ancient craft in Çanakkale, some examples from the area having been woven in the fifteenth century. Rugs of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are coarsely woven on a wool foundation with red wefts. Knot densities are about 40 to 80 symmetric knots per square inch. The number of wefts varies between rows of knots. Ends are usually a red plain weave.



Source: Oriental rugs An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and origins by Peter F. Stone

Young Woman Peeling Apples by the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes.ca. 1655🎨Bright red tones unify this painting, linking the...
07/06/2021

Young Woman Peeling Apples by the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes.
ca. 1655
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Bright red tones unify this painting, linking the maid’s costume, the apples she peels, and the Turkish carpet on the table.
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source: Metmuseum
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Importation of Turkey Carpets directly from Constantinople!This is a leaflet for Atkinson & Company and they are adverti...
05/06/2021

Importation of Turkey Carpets directly from Constantinople!
This is a leaflet for Atkinson & Company and they are advertising their stock of carpets and floor coverings. (1895)
Fitted carpets were thought to be a great extravagance during the 19th century because they were built-in to the room and could not be taken when the family moved.
Large rugs with Turkish designs were popular instead as these could be bought in many different sizes and because they were not fixed they made cleaning much easier.
Carpets and rugs would have been made from heavy material and would have been densely patterned so that the dirt didn’t show so noticeably.
       

           
Source: British Library

Ever heard of Lorenzo Lotto?Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator, tradi...
05/06/2021

Ever heard of Lorenzo Lotto?
Lorenzo Lotto (c. 1480 – 1556/57) was an Italian painter, draughtsman and illustrator, traditionally placed in the Venetian school, though much of his career was spent in other north Italian cities.
Carpets displaying this striking design of stylized vegetal arabesques in yellow on a red ground are often called "Lotto" carpets after a famous altarpiece by Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto that depicts a similar carpet.
Early examples of Lotto carpets exhibit borders like the one seen here. Thought to derive from a rectilinear form of Arabic script known as kufic, this type of interlaced border is characteristic of many early Turkish carpets.
It is characterized by a lacy arabesque, usually in yellow on a red ground, often with blue details. The name "Lotto carpet" refers to the inclusion of carpets with this pattern in paintings by the 16th-century Venetian painter Lorenzo Lotto, although they appear in many earlier Oriental carpets in Renaissance painting.



Source: Metmuseum&Wikipedia
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/445297

Aydın. A town in western Anatolia and a source of kilims and cicims. Most kilims from the area are woven in three parts,...
04/06/2021

Aydın. A town in western Anatolia and a source of kilims and cicims.
Most kilims from the area are woven in three parts, a central panel with two edge strips.
A distinctive design feature is that main borders at the ends are followed by colored stripes and a single row of weft twining.





source:Oriental rugs An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and origins by Peter F. Stone

As a general rule, if you draw a line towards the centre of the rug, both parts of the rug will be the mirror image of t...
01/06/2021

As a general rule, if you draw a line towards the centre of the rug, both parts of the rug will be the mirror image of the other.
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However, when a line is drawn from the middle of the rug, the upper part and the lower part of the rug will also is a mirror image of the other.
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The main aspect of the Anatolian rug is the double symmetry of the general design. The rugs from a pastoral culture are expected to be more naive and primitive on the whole,
however the Anatolian rugs are definitely more detailed, regular and particular in design and method. The Anatolian rugs may have more particular systems than any other thing you can find in an Anatolian village. ”
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Tribal Eye : Antique Kilims of Anatolia
by Peter Davies, Pete Davies

Kars. A city of northeastern Anatolia near the border with the Caucasus. Rugs woven in the area of Kars have modified Ca...
31/05/2021

Kars. A city of northeastern Anatolia near the border with the Caucasus.
Rugs woven in the area of Kars have modified Caucasian designs. They are on an all-wool foundation. They are coarsely woven and similar to Kazaks in construction as well as design.
For Kars rugs, reds tend to be burgundy rather that brick red as in Kazaks. Knot density is about 60 symmetric knots per square inch. .
Most kilims from the Kars area are long and narrow. Small prayer kilims with triangular mihrabs are also woven. Kilim warps are of brown wool and braided at the ends.
Kars is a source of soumak bags that are woven without ground wefts.
source:Oriental rugs An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and origins by Peter F. Stone




According to Peter Davies, the writer of “The Antique Rugs of Anatolia”, the young girls in front of the weaving looms,...
30/05/2021

According to Peter Davies, the writer of “The Antique Rugs of Anatolia”, the young girls in front of the weaving looms, learn not only kilim weaving but also the preferred system of symmetries of their tribe.


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