WHEEL/PARA-MAMLUK ~1~

53"x75", Design by Christopher Robin Andrews, production directed by I. Tekin,  weaving overseen by Karakus, woven by Fadime, Hacer, Zeynep & Esma in Yeni Cerit.  The  yarns, made with long staple wool from Afyon with a 15%-20% mohair content was dyed by Mustafa, and the finished carpet washed by Abdurrahman and Abdullah, finish shearing by Saban, completed in February of 2008.  This design was inspired by a rug in the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts collection. The Wheel carpets with fully developed and accurate interlace medallions are amongst the rarest in the world.  There are only about a dozen or so of this type, which are also called "Para-Mamluk" or "Damascus" carpets. This carpet has a unusually high knot density for a Central Anatolian carpet, at ~144 knots @ square inch.

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