Turkish Hereke Carpet XXth Century

Carpet Hereke Turkish twentieth Century 1960 Entirely hand-knotted, Vegetable dyes, Pure wool, Size: 2,33mX1,67m carpet of Hereke in the Hall of Ambassadors of the Dolmabahçe Palace. The carpets of Hereke carpets are only produced in Hereke, a coastal city in Turkey located 60 kilometers from Istanbul. The materials used for their manufacture are silk, a combination of wool and cotton, and sometimes gold or silver son. The Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid I founded the Imperial factory at Hereke in 1841 to provide all necessary textiles to decorate his new Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus. He gathered the best artists and weavers throughout the Empire in this city, where they began to produce carpets large and of very high quality, with unique patterns. After completing the work of the Istanbul palace, the Sultans used the Manufacture to offer royalty, the nobility and the Statesmen these mats as a present. It was not until 1890 that merchants Istanbul could sell to the people of these parts. With the end of the Ottoman Empire Hereke production was greatly reduced during the second half of the twentieth century. Only a few weavers perpetuated expertise Ottoman carpets. In 1920, Hereke tapestry housed a school funded. Women both Muslim and Christian attended the courses. The carpets of Hereke are typically large, to suit the large areas of the Palace rooms. They are compounds of wool on cotton, camel hair on cotton, silk on cotton or silk entirety. The accuracy of the double knot (Turkish knot) that allows a clear presentation of models, sets, harmonious color combinations, made these highly valuable carpets. Today, Hereke carpets are still made according to traditional models inspired by Abdülmecid I, but also Anatolian and figurative in contemporary style.