Handmade carpets in Turkey

Turkey has always been famous for its carpets. Soft, silk carpets, pleasant to the touch, and even with a variety of patterns. Carpets have always been associated with the Middle East. In Antalya today there is a craft of producing handmade carpets. The prices for these carpets, I must say, are fabulous!

Well... at least just walk around and look at the carpets. Is it forbidden, or what? No, we will only be welcome. So we'll go and have a look. And at the same time we will learn about what makes these carpets so special? So, what happens if you buy an expensive handmade rug, rather than a similar cheap loom rug at the bazaar?

Genuine work of art:

Firstly, by purchasing such a thing, we get not just a carpet - but a genuine work of art. You can’t even imagine how creating even one carpet is incredibly complex, painstaking and time-consuming work. In the store they can show us the machine (loom) with which, in fact, such masterpieces are created.

How is a carpet made? Everything is “simple”. Every centimeter of our fluffy carpet is a multitude of knots of silk threads, strongly shifted towards each other. Each knot is tied by hand. Tying every knot is very difficult. And just like that, knot by knot, centimeter by centimeter, skilled weaver girls create their masterpieces.

All the main advantages of handmade carpets:

It takes one to several years to create one carpet. And having purchased one, we will know that this carpet was created by needlewomen over the years, and was not woven in a couple of hours in some factory.

There are no wrinkles left on the carpets:

What inconveniences are we accustomed to in using carpets? We placed heavy furniture on them - “traces” were formed! They temporarily rolled the carpet into a roll - folds formed. This is what the carpets were like when they were woven by hand, and they truly were works of art. And now the production of carpets has been put on the conveyor belt. As a result, carpets are made “hard” - very susceptible to physical impact.
But handmade silk carpets are very soft. And elastic. They can be folded, twisted, or heavy furniture can be placed on them - and this will not affect their appearance in any way.

There are no allergies to these carpets:

In our countries, carpets, as an element of interior design, are quickly and surely becoming a thing of the past. People prefer not to hang carpets on the walls at all, and put them on the floor only in cases of extreme necessity. Carpets have turned into real dust collectors. Dust breeds dust mites. As a result, we may develop allergies to dust. To prevent this from happening, we have to regularly clean the carpets and knock them out from time to time. It's troublesome.

But silk, unlike wool, is not such a malicious accumulator of dust. There is virtually no need to clean these carpets. Handmade carpets do not accumulate dust, they do not harbor dust mites, and there are practically no allergies to these carpets.