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. |