TURKISH BAZAAR
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The town of Kayseri,
situated in central Turkey, has been famous as a carpet making center
for centuries. Carpets and Kilims of Kayseri are of various types.
Silk carpets, artificial silk and wool (floss), natural wool (no
dyes), and Bunyan carpets are the major categories produced. Kayseri
carpets are woven both at the workshops and in the homes. Weavers
usually buy yarn from shops and after finishing their carpet wolud
sell it to the same shop in ordar to buy more yarn. The Kayseri floss carpets with silk
looking yarns in bright colours, have found favour with Europeans with
their attractive designs. They look very much like silk carpets to
foreigners. The sizes, designs and number of knots are the same as
Bunyan carpets, but the large sizes are rather rare. In the floss
carpets chemical dyes are used, because the yarn (floss) can only be
dyed with chemicals. Cotton is used as warp and weft and floss is used
for the knots. This carpets are considered the masterpieces of Kayseri and as such are sought
out by dealers to sell to the foreign trade. Sometimes Kayseri carpets
are woven entirelly in silk and will have 600,000 to 700,000 knots per
square meter.
Bunyan carpets are offen in floral designs of a typical Oriental carpet. The yarn is cotton and wool dyed with wegetible dyes, and about 120,000 to 150,000 knots per square meter.The Kayseri Bunyan carpets are made in different sizes; from pillow sizes of 62 by 100 cm. to the large 16 square meters carpet. Kayseri natural wool carpets have all the properties of Bunyan carpets execpt there are not as many colours used as in the Bunyan carpets. Colours of white, cream, light and dark brown and sometimes black are used in this types of carpets with the same number knots as in the Bunyan carpets. |
| Click to see a picture of Kayseri carpet |
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