Yahyalı carpet

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Yahyalı carpets come from the village of Yahyalı in Central Anatolia ( Turkey ) between Niğde and Kayseri in the erosion basin of Cappadocia .

The carpets often measure 180 × 110 cm, at 160,000 knots / m². The warp , weft and knotting threads are made of pure sheep's wool , dyed in vegetable or mineral colors. Synthetic colors were also used from the middle of the 20th century. The color recipes were kept as a secret and only passed on from generation to generation in the family.

A Yahyalı carpet is easy to recognize by its three main colors: red from the madder root , blue from the woad plant and graduated brown tones from the dried shells of the walnut . A typical characteristic of the Yahyalı is its red central field in the form of a hexagon , in which a multi-contoured, stepped rod diamond is often centered. The center of this field is a Gül / Göl as a family symbol , framed by a kufi- like contour band, in the center of which a variant of the Yün-Chien motif can be interpreted as a symbol of the four world directions. In the opposite gables of the red field, stylized flowers are often knotted, which, connected with lines in triangular form and in parallel symmetry, are supposed to represent flower stems. In the cobalt blue spandrels, like in the brown-ground main border, abstractly designed bird heads are arranged opposite one another. In one or two narrower secondary borders, small stylized flowers frame the wider main border. In the second half of the 20th century, these Yahyalı carpets were manufactured in large numbers for export. They provided the people there with an income, albeit mostly a modest one. Yahyalıs over 100 years old are very rare and often in poor condition.