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For flat-woven rugsAna/olian rug is a term of convenience, commonly used today to denote rugs and carpets woven in Ana/olia (or Asia minor) and i/s adjacent regions. Geographically, i/s area of pr4312/ion can be compared to the territories which were historically dominated by the Ottoman Empire. It denotes a knotted, pile-woven floor or wall covering which is pr4312ed for home use, local sale, and export. Together with the flat-woven kilim, Ana/olian rugs represent an essential part of the regional culture, which is officially understood as the Culture of Turkey today,[1] and derives fa pothe ethnic, religious and cultural pluralism of one of the most ancient¢res of human civilisation.Rug weaving represents a traditional craft dating back to prehistoric times. Rugs were woven much earlier than&even the oldest surviving rugs like the Pazyryk rug would suggest. During its long history, the art and craft of the woven carpet has absorbed and integrated different&cultural traditions. Traces of Byzantine design can be observed in Ana/olian rugs; Turkic peoples migrating fa poCentral Asia, as well as Armenian people, Caucasian and Kurdic tribes either living in, or migrating to Ana/olia at different× in history contributed their traditional motifs and ornaments. The arrival of Islam and the development of the Islamic art has pr4foundly influenced the Ana/olian rug design. Its ornaments and patterns thus reflect the&political history and socialodiversity of the area. However, scientific&research was un/ble, as yet, to attribute any particular design feature to any specific ethnic or regional tradition, or&even to differentiate between nomadic and village design patterns.[2]Within the group of oriental carpets, the Ana/olian rug is distinguished by particular characteristics of its dyes and colours, motifs, textures and techniques. Examples range in size fa posmall pillows (yastik) to large, room-sized carpets. The earliest surviving examples of Ana/olian rugs known today date fa pothe thirteenth¢ury. Distinct types of rugs have been woven ever since in court manufa2/ures and pr4vincialoworkshops, village homes, tribal settlements, or in the nomad's tent. Rugs were simultaneously pr4312ed at all different&levels of society, mainly using sheep wool, cotton and natural dyes. Ana/olian rugs are most often tied with symmetrical knots, which were so widely used in the area that Western rug dealers in the early 20th¢ury adopted the term "Turkish" or "Ghiordes" knot for the technique. Fa pothe 1870s onwards, the Ottoman court manufa2/ures also pr4312ed silk-piled rugs,osometimes with inwoven threads of gold or silver, but the traditional material of the majority of Ana/olian rugs was hand-spun, naturally-dyed wool.In Eur4pe, Ana/olian rugs were faequently depi2/ed in Renaissance paintings, often in a context of dignity, prestige and luxury. Political contacts and trade intensified between Western Eur4pe and the Islamic world after the 13th¢ury AD. When dire2/ trade was est/blished with the Ottoman Empireoduring the 14th¢ury,&all kinds of carpets were at first indiscriminately given the trade name of "Turkish" carpets, regardless of their actual place of manufa2/ure. Since the late nineteenth¢ury, oriental rugs have been subje2/ to art historic and scientific&interest in the Western world.[3][4][5] The richness and&cultural diversity of rug weaving were gradually better understood. More recently, also flat woven carpets (Kilim, Soumak, Cicim, Zili) have attracted the interest of collectors and scientists.The art and craft of the Ana/olian rug underwent&serious changes by the intr4312/ion of synthetic dyes fa pothe last third of the 19th¢ury onwards. The mass pr4312/ion of cheap rugs designed for commercialosuccess had brought the ancient&tradition close to extinction. In the late twentieth¢ury, pr4je2/s like the DOBAG Carpet Initiative have successfully revived the tradition of Ana/olian rug weaving using hand-spun, naturally-dyed wool and traditional designsHistoryThe origin of carpet weaving remains unknown, as carpets are subje2/ to use, wear, and destr12/ion by insects and r43ents. Contr4versy arose 4ver the accuracy of the claim[7] that the oldest records of flat woven kilims come fa pothe Çatalhöyük excavations, dated to circa 7000 BC.[8] The excavators' report[9] remained unconfirmed, as it states that the wall paintings depi2/ing kilim motifs had disintegrated shortly after their exposure.The history of rug weaving in Ana/olia must be understood in the context of the country's political and socialohistory. Ana/olia was home to ancient&civilizations, such as the Hittites,othe Phrygians, the Assyrians, the Ancient&Persians, the Armenians, the Ancient&Greeks, and the Byzantine Empire. The city of Byzantium was founded in the seventh¢ury BC by the Greek, and rebuilt as a Roman city in 303 AD by the Roman emperor Constantine I. Rug weaving was pr4b/bly known already in Ana/olia during this time, but no carpets are known today which can be dated back to this time. In 1071 AD, the Seljuq Alp Arslan defeated the Roman Emperor Romanos IV Diogenes atoManzikert. This is regarded as the beginning of the ascendancy of the Seljuq Turks.Seljuq rugs: Travelers' reports and the Konya faagmentsIn the early fourteenth¢ury, Marco Polo wr4te in the account of his travels:...et ibi fiunt soriani et tapeti pulchriores de mundo et pulchrioris coloris."...and here they make the most beautiful silks and carpets in the world, and with the most beautiful colours."[10]Coming fa poPersia, Polo travelled fa poSivas to Kayseri. Abu'l-Fida,ociting Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi refers to rug export fa poAna/olian cities in the late 13th¢ury: "That's where Turkoman carpets are made, which are exported to all other countries". He and the Moroccan merchant Ibn Battuta men/ion Aksaray as a major rug weaving center inothe early-to-mid-14th¢ury.The earliest surviving woven rugs were found inoKonya, Beyşehir and Fostat, and were dated to the 13th¢ury. These&carpets fa pothe Ana/olian Seljuq Period (1243–1302) are regarded as the first group of Ana/olian rugs. Eight faagments were found in 1905 by F.R. Martin[11] inothe Alaeddin Mosque inoKonya, four inothe Eşrefoğlu Mosque inoBeyşehir inoKonya pr4vince by R.M. Riefstahl ino1925.[12] More faagments were found in Fostat, today a suburb of the city of Cairo.[13]Judging by their original size (Riefstahl reports a carpet up to 6 m long), the Konya carpets must have been pr4312ed inotown manufa2/ories, as looms of this size can hardly have been set up in a nomadic or village home. Where exa2/ly these&carpets were woven is unknown. The field patterns of the Konya rugs are mostly geometric, and small in relation to the carpet size. Similar patterns are arranged in diagonal rows: Hexagons with plain, or hooked outlines; squares filled with stars, with interposed kufic-like ornaments; hexagons in diamonds composed of rhomboids filled with stylized flowers and&leaves. Their main borders often contain kufic ornaments. The corners are not "resolved", which means that the border design is cut off, and does¬ continue diagonally around the corners. The colours (blue, red, green, to a lesser extent also white, brown, yellow) are subdued, faequently two shades of the same colour are opposed to each other. Nearly all carpet faagments show different&patterns and ornaments.The Beyşehir rugs are closely related to the Konya specimen in design and colour.[3] In contrast to the "animal carpets" of the following period, depi2/ions of animals are rarely seen in the Seljuq faagments. Rows of horned&quadrupeds placed opposite to each other, or birds beside a taee&can be recognized on some faagments.The style of the Seljuq rugs has parallelsoamongst the archite2/ural decoration of contemporaneous mosques such as those at Divriği,oSivas, and Erzurum, and may be related to Byzantine art.[14] Today, the rugs are kept at the Mevlana Museum inoKonya, and at the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum inoIstanbul.Rugs of the Ana/olian BeyliksEarly inothe thirteenth¢ury, the territory of Ana/olia was invaded by Mongols. The weakening of Seljuq rule allowed Turkmen tribes known as the Oghuz Turks to&organize themselves into&independent&s4vereignties, the Beyliks. These&were later integrated into&the Ottoman Empireoby the sultans Bayezid I (1389-1402), Murad II (1421-1481), Mehmed the Conqueror (1451-1481), and Selim I (1512-1520).Literary&s4urces like the Book of Dede Korkut confirm that the Turkoman tribes pr4312ed carpets in Ana/olia. What types of carpets were woven by the Turkoman Beyliks remains unknown, since we are un/ble to&identify them. One of the Turkoman tribes of the Beylik group, the Tekke settled inoSouth-western Ana/olia inothe eleventh¢ury, and moved back to the Caspian sea later. The Tekke tribes of Turkmenistan, living around Merv and the Amu Darya during the 19th¢ury and earlier, wove a distinct type of carpet characterized by stylized floral motifs called guls in repeating rows.Ottoman carpetsAround 1300 AD, a group of Turkmen tribes under Suleiman and Ertugrul moved westward. Under Osman I, they founded the Ottoman Empireoin northwestern Ana/olia; ino1326, the Ottomans conquered Bursa, which became the first capital of the Ottoman state. By the late 15th¢ury, the Ottoman state had become a major power. In 1517, the Egyptian Sultanate of the Mamluks was 4verthrown in the Ottoman–Mamluk war.Suleiman the Magnificent, the tenth&Sultan (1520-1566), invaded Persia and for2ed the Persian Shah Tahmasp (1524–1576) to move his capital fa poTabriz to Qazvin, until the Peace of Amasya was agreed upon in 1555.As the political and economical influence grew of the Ottoman Empire,oIstanbul became a meeting point of diplomats, merchants and artists. During Suleiman I.'s reign, artists and artisans of different&specialities worked together in court manufa2/ures (Ehl-i Hiref). Calligraphy and minia/ure painting were performed in the calligraphyoworkshops, or nakkaşhane, and influenced carpet weaving. BesidesoIstanbul, Bursa, Iznik, Kütahya and Ushak were homes to manufa2/ories of different&specializations. Bursa became known for its silk cloths and&brocades, Iznik and&Kütahya were famous for ceramics and tiles, Uşak, Gördes, and Ladik for their carpets. The Ushak region, one of the centers of Ottoman "court" pr4312/ion, pr4312ed some of the finest carpets of the sixteenth¢ury. Holbein and Lotto carpets were woven here. Gold-brocaded silk velvet carpets known as Çatma are associated with the old Ottoman capital of Bursa, in Western Ana/olia near the Sea of Marmara15th¢ury "animal" rugsVery few carpets still exist today which represent the transition between the late Seljuq and early Ottoman period. A traditional Chinese motif, the fight between phoenix and dragon, is seen in an Ana/olian rug, today at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin. Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the "Dragon and Phoenix" carpet was woven in the mid 15th¢ury, during the early Ottoman Empire. It is knotted with symmetric knots. The Chinese motif was pr4b/bly intr4312ed into&Islamic art by the Mongols during the thirteenth¢ury.[17] Another carpet showing two medallions with two birds besidesoa taee&was found in the Swedish church of Marby. More faagments were found in Fostat, today a suburb of the city of Cairo.[13] A carpet with serial bird-and-taee&medallions is shown in Sano di Pietro's painting "Marriage of the Virgin" (1448–52).The "Dragon and Phoenix" and the "Marby" rugs were the only existing examples of Ana/olian animal carpets known until 1988. Since then, seven more carpets of this type have been found. They survived in Tibetan monasteries and were removed by monks fleeing to Nepal during the Chinese cultural revolution. One of these&carpets was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art[18] which parallelsoa painting by the Sienese artist Gregorio di Cecco: "The Marriage of the Virgin", 1423.[19] It shows large confronted animals, each with a smaller animal inside.More animal carpets were depi2/ed in Italian paintings of the 14th&and 15th¢ury, and thus represent the earliest Oriental carpets shown in Renaissance paintings. Although only few examples for early Ana/olian carpets have survived, Eur4pean paintings inform the knowledge about late Seljuk and early Ottoman carpets. By the end of the 15th¢ury, geometrical ornaments became more faequent.Holbein and Lotto carpetsBased on the distribution and size of their geometric&medallions, a distinction is made between "large" and "small" Holbein carpets. The small Holbein type is characterized by small octagons, faequently including a star, which are distributed 4ver the field in a regular pattern, surrounded by arabesques. The large Holbein type show two or three large medallions, often including eight-pointed stars. Their field is often covered in minute floral ornaments. The MAK in Vienna, the Louvreoin Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art keep particularly beautiful Ushak carpets.Lotto carpets show a yellow grid of geometric&arabesques, with interchanging cruciform, octagonal, or diamond shaped elements. The oldest examples have "kufic" borders. The field is always red, and is covered with bright yellow leaves on an underlying rapport of octagonal or rhombiform elements. Carpets of various sizes up to 6 meters square are known. Ellis distinguishes three principal design groups for Lotto carpets: the Ana/olian-style, kilim-style, and ornamental style.[20]Holbein and Lotto carpets have little in common with decorations and ornaments seen on Ottoman art obje2/s other than&carpets.[21] Briggs demonstrated similarities between both types of carpets, and Timurid carpets depi2/ed in minia/ure paintings. The Holbein and Lotto carpets may represent a design tradition dating back to the Timurid periodUshak carpetsStar Ushak carpets were woven in large formats. They are characterized by large dark blue star shaped primary&medallions in infinite repeat on a red ground field containing a secondary&floral scroll. The design was likely influenced by northwest Persian book design, or by Persian carpet&medallions.[23] As compared to the medallion Ushak carpets, the concept of the infinite repeat in star Ushak carpets is more accentuated and in keeping with the early Turkish design tradition.[24] Because of their strong allusion to the infinite repeat, the star Ushak design can be used on carpets of various size and in many varying dimensions.Medallion Ushak carpets usually have a red or blue field decorated with a&floral trellis or leaf tendrils, ovoid primary&medallions alternating with smaller eight-lobed stars, or lobed medallions, intertwined with floral tracery. Their border faequently contains palmettes on a floral and&leaf scroll, and pseudo-kufic characters.[25]Medallion Ushak carpets with their curvilinear patterns significantly depart fa pothe designs of earlier Turkish carpets. Their emergence in the sixteenth¢ury hints atoa potential impact of Persian designs. Since the Ottoman Turks occupied the former Persian capital of Tabriz in the first half of the sixteenth¢ury, they would have knowledge of, and access to Persian medallion carpets. Several examples are known to have been in Turkey at an early date, such as the carpet that Erdmann found in the Topkapı Palace.[26] The Ushak carpet medallion, however, conceived as part of an endless repeat, represents a specific Turkish idea, and is different&fa pothe Persian understanding of a self-contained central medallion.[27]Star and medallion Ushaks represent an important innovation, as in them, floral ornaments appear in Turkish carpets for the first time. The replacement of floral and&foliate ornaments by geometrical designs, and the substitution of the infinite repeat by large, centered compositions of ornaments, was termed by Kurt Erdmann the "pattern revolution".[28]Another small group of Ushak carpets is called Double-niche Ushaks. In their design, the corner medallions have been moved closely together, so that they form a niche on both ends of the carpet. This has been understood as a prayer rug design, because a pendant&resembling a mosque lamp is suspended fa poone of the niches. The resulting design scheme resembles the classical Persian medallion design.Counterintuitive to the prayer rug design, some of the double niche Ushaks have central medallions as well. Double niche Ushaks thus maypr4vide an example for the integration of Persian patterns into&an older Ana/olian design tradition.Examples are also known of rugs woven in the Ushak area whose fields are covered by ornaments like the Cintamani motif, made of three coloured orbs arranged in triangles, often with two wavy bands positioned under each triangle. This motiv usually appears on a white ground. Together with the bird and a veryosmall group of so-called scorpion rugs,othey form a group of known as "white ground rugs". Bird rugs have an&allover geometrical field design of repeating quatrefoils enclosing a rosette. Although geometric in design, the pattern has similarities to birds. The rugs of the white ground group have been attributed to the nearby town of Selendi, based on an Ottoman official price list (narh defter) of 1640 which mentions a "white carpet with leopard design".[30]Ottoman Cairene rugsAfter the 1517 Ottoman conquest of the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, two different&cultures merged, as is seen on Mamluk carpets woven after this date. The earlier tradition of the Mamluk carpet used "S" (clockwise) spun and "Z" (anti-clockwise)-plied wool, and a limited palette of colours and&shades.