Turkish Eye

Woven ideals on Turkish Rugs
For the majority, Persian hides with the models bloom and the projection vines symbolizes the eastern traditional rug. Fifteenth century forward, Turkish rugs established a number growing collectors among the classes of easy merchant of Europe. Describes and evaluated according to where, how and by that it was woven, a Turkish rug, as both of them eastern rug, is or of city, of town or of nomadic origination. The additional commercial products, as as the rugs of luxurious silk and flower modeled did close to Istanbul in Hereke and inspired by Persian and the carpeting of court ottoman, filled also the taste of the west for the Turkish rugs and always are created at that very moment today.

But intensely prized by the collectors of today are the rural rugs woven for the centuries by the women in the towns through Turkey. These form the Turkish ones in demands carpeting preponderance. Some rugs of town of nineteenth century, nevertheless, also were done for the market. The rugs continue as a notable element of income of family in these agrarian communities. The nomadic ones, although diminishing in the numbers, also to keep rugs weavings, executed especially in the primary colors and reflects the graphic motives of their legs of Central asiatique-turc. In comparison of the typical others of eastern rugs, the rugs of Turkish town are remarkable for their combinations of lively and extraordinary color and the geometric conceptions a lot of vivacity.

The symbols on a Turkish carpeting say of which one think about old people was important, that they feared, and that they dreamed. A lot of symbols on the Anatolian carpeting are based on the myths always believed today.

The myth more common is in Turkey the Devilish Eye. It is believed that some people have the strength to cause the evil or the death with just a blow of eye of their Devilish Eye. The people to the blue eyes are more probable to have a Devilish Eye than of others. One of the better manners to prevent the evil is to reflect the blow of eye of return with a symbol of the Devilish Eye himself. In weaving, a diamond divided in four is the symbol more common for the eye.

Another common symbol is Hayat Agaci, the life tree. The tree represents the hope for the life after the death. Every culture in the world has a different tree of life -- as the cypress, the date, the palm, the grenade, the fig, the olive, the beech, and the trees in oak.

A young woman that weaves stars in his carpeting show his happiness. The stars on the carpeting have of ordinary an equal number of points, because the it is difficult to weave unequal numbers. A star on a carpeting could mean also a hope for the fields or the fertile hopes to have a baby. The archaeologists discovered the statues of goddess of mother in Anatolie that has a star to represent the uterus.

The women in the Anatolian region of Turkey used mythical symbols for year thousands to express their dreams and their fears. There is a long time, they knit socks with the different symbols to show their sensations for one the one liked.

The oldest symbols were created 9000 years ago to Catalhoyuk, an old town in Anatolie. The archaeologists discovered that, since this time, a lot of other cultures moved themselves in and sector and used the same symbols. The region of Anatolie was as a rest stop for the travelers of everywhere in the world. But instead of remaining in Anatolie fortresses in gigantic rocks (called kervansarays) for the weeks, the people groups remained for the hundreds of years. Finally, they adopted certain of the culture of Anatolian and the symbols.

There are a lot of symbols. A lot of them represents a young aspirations of the woman of marital happiness, of others say desire for a successful hunt. Since the Anatolie constitutes dry such a region, the waves are a common symbol that testifies to the high value of water. If you recognize that the symbols of Anatolian evoke, you know the aspirations of the weaver and THE mythos of HIS CIVILIZATION.

You look at an artistic creation. The one distinguishes soon that the Turkish carpeting are more symbols of a culture than a beautiful covers of floor, and they survived provided that the Turks themselves.