Turkish Hereke Carpet 2.25 x 1.56m

Hereke Palace Carpet / Turkey 'Seven Mountain Flower design '
Size:2.25 x 1.56m
Wool and cotton
100% hand knotted.
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Hereke produces the highest quality of this detailed 'palace 'style of carpet in Turkey. This 'Seven Mountain Flower' Design' was a design created to represent the city of Istanbul as it has been built on seven hills and was a design evered by the Sultans.
Hereke carpets are Turkish handmade carpets produced and sold in the town of Hereke 60 km from Istanbul.The fact that Hereke is located on the historical Silk Road and is close to Istanbul, Bursa, and its surroundings, which are the center of traditional sericulture, has been influential in the development of carpet weaving in this region.The materials used are silk, a combination of wool and cotton, and sometimes gold or silver threads.Over 30 colours are used in Hereke Carpets and the average knot count is 64-100 knots per square centimetre.
The Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I founded the Hereke Imperial Manufacture in 1841 to produce all the textiles for his Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus. He gathered the best artists, dye masters and carpet weavers of the Ottoman Empire in Hereke, where they began producing high-quality rugs and large carpets with unique designs.After completing work on the Dolmabahçe Palace, the Ottoman sultans used to give Hereke carpets as gifts to selected visiting royalty, noblemen and statesmen. It was not until 1890 that some traders in Istanbul were allowed to sell some of the pieces made at Hereke. With the end of the Ottoman Empire, the production of Hereke carpets was restricted until the middle of the 20th century, when some master-weavers in Hereke began once more to produce the carpets in continuation of the tradition of the Ottoman palace carpets.
 
As of 1920, Hereke was home to a carpet-making school which was run by the state. Both Muslim and Christian women and children attended classes.Hereke carpets typically are large, palace-sized carpets, with wool on cotton as well as pure silk on silk,( which are knotted in small sizes). The precision of their double knots (Turkish or Ghiordes knots), which allows the clear display of patterns, together with the colour combinations and the harmonious patterns, have made them highly collectible.