A Konya rug, Central Anatolia,

irregularly shaped reweave approximately on centre line, approx. 70 by 7cm., now faded, repiling partially executed through linen patches on reverse, scattered smaller areas of repiling, again generally with fabric patches on reverse of rug, sidecords with later barber pole overcasting, pile generally approximately 1cm. in length with walnut browns oxidised to knotbars, good colours, very dirty, nice old flexible weave, lovely rug which would benefit from thorough cleaning and judicious restoration
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Although the designs of carpets and rugs produced in Konya vary greatly from village to village, the color schemes of weavings from this region are generally characterized by luminous shades and saturated hues, as the present lot exemplifies.  A carpet with a very similar design concept, yet different motifs, is in the Türk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi, Istanbul, see Brüggemann, W.& Böhmer, H., Rugs from the Peasants and Nomads of Anatolia, München, 1983, p.176. The goldenrod color of the field makes this lot part of the larger group of "yellow-ground" rugs, which are typical to the Konya region and that were first produced probably in the eighteenth century, or even before, see Murray L. Eiland Jr. and Murray Eiland III, Oriental Carpets, s.n., 1998, p.189. For a detailed discussion of yellow-ground Konya carpets see E. Heinrich Kirchheim et al, Orient Starts, London, 1993, pp. 88-189.