Halı ve Kilim

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CARPET AND KILIM

1. Runners and carpets

It distinguishes among Indian, Eropean and oriental carpets. Oriental carpets are like farmes looms produced by manual labor. On the other hand, European machine-made looms. All these species are in a normal size. Smaller rugs, for example, To bridge a short distance, will also bridge. Longer however, are runners. Runners are characterized by their relatively narrow and long form, and partly as a result of its use purpose; hallways, corridors, entrances, etc.

2. Kilim

Kilim comes from the Turkish and will also wrote like -Kilim-. Add to the Turkish word came from the Persian language and meaning as SPREAD. Most famed are also the Turkish Hereke and Milas carpets.

Kilim is a woven carpet. The difference between this and other carpets is that the weft thread on both sides of the Kilim the pattern. That means that he is not with passing through weft yarn is woven. The European Gobelin textile industry resembles thus the Kilim. The Kilim-Carpet is across Anatolia and besides Turkey, India, also in the whole Asia Minor and Caucasian, in the Balkans, Nepal, Spain, in the Northern Africa, Iran, Turkestan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, also in Iraq, in Tibet and more, in the same way.

Kilim will in some areas as a tapestry, as a cover for sofas, etc.. Furthermore, the Kilim in oriental buildings, in little towns, or in oriental decorated homes etc, are still preferred, used and spread for decorations.

Kilims are produced by tightly interweaving the warp, and weft, of the weave strands to produce a flat surface, with no pile. Most kilim weaves are weft-facing, the horizontal weft strands are pulled tightly, downward, so that they hide the vertical warp strands.