INTRODUCTION
Carpet is firstly developed in Middle Asia as a ground cloth and since ancient ages it has
used in decorating yurts , houses , mosques and palaces. The first carpets are weaved in
Altaic Mountains in 5th and has been transferred by the Turkic hordes to the Western Asia
and Europe. In most of these famous examples of ancient carpets , the type of the knot
which is used is known as Turkish knot. Years later this tradition is improved and excelled in
a Western Anatolian town called as Gördes and the carpets which are weaved in here
started to name as Gördes Carpets. In this paper the main objective is to describe this
ancient tradition and its reflection particularly in Gördes.
GÖRDES and CARPET
In the begining of 14th
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According to Vital Cuinet (French orientalist intellectual) ‘’
Gördes is the motherland of carpet weaving. The preyer rugs of Gördes are extremely
elegant and looks like cashmere. Most of the Palace’s carpet supply is provided by Gördes.
Like Iran carpets warps are cotton and wefts are wool but the quality of wool is much more
better than Iran .‘’ Also Charles Texier made some comparison between Uşak and Gördes
carpets and wrote in favor of Gördes carpets in his Journals.
FEATURES OF GÖRDES CARPETS
Gördes carpets have 9 parts respectively ; underlay (Tabanlık) , ayetlik ,mihrap, arch of
mihrap, pillars, main border, inner border, outer border. Almost all of the Gördes prayer rugs
has mihrap. These mihraps can be both two sided and both sided. Usually the type of mihrap
or its edge decorations determine the type of carpet.
Mihrap is the most important part of a Gördes carpet. There are two types of mihraps can be
seen in Gördes Carpets. These are horseshoe shape and upside down ‘’v’’ shape
respectively. Also tabanlık and ayetlik parts which is over and under of mihrap can be seen
only in Gördes
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Borders are richly decked by tulip ,hyacinth ,rose and
leaf motifs in a harmony. Sometimes rosettes and saz motifs can be seen in corners.
Pitcher, candle, comb and flowers are the most common figures in Gördes prayer rugs. The
figures in the carpets are the objectified versions of emotions and concepts. For example;
pitcher means pureness , candle means nimbus and bouquet represents heaven. Unlike
other carpets animal motifs are not so common in Gördes carpets because of Islamic effects.
In the coloring phase of Gördes carpets , weavers have used only natural dyes for centuries.
Dyers got colors from different plants such as ; rubia tinctorium for red , isatis tinctoria for
blue , anthemis tinctoria for yellow , euphorbia sp. for green , salvia sp. for beige. Blue ,
brown ,red, white and green colors are commonly used in Gördes carpets. Blue based ones
are considered as more valuable by carpet merchants. Usage of contrast colors are frequent
such as red and blue or white and black like Seljuk carpets.
TYPES OF GÖRDES CARPETS
Kız ( Sinekli ) Gördes
It is the general description of carpets that has a range of connected wing shaped little
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