Palas (carpet)
A palace is in plain weave woven fabric or a simply patterned Handwebteppich. The designs are exhausted in simple, sometimes narrower, sometimes wider stripes. Panniers, such as khorjins and namakdans , are mostly made of palas fabric on their backs.
Originally, only Caucasian weavings were called palas. Nowadays the term is used in a broader sense, which is why patterns and weaving techniques from other origins fall under it. Some collectors dedicate themselves to these special, unadulterated and thus still quite primeval weaving works of the rural population and nomads in the entire Middle East - i.e. in regions where there is not knotting but weaving .
literature
- Reinhold Schletzer (arrangement): The modern Turkmen carpet (= Turkmen research. Volume 14). Self-published, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-921539-18-9 .