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Bergama is a little
town in northwest part of the country, here there are approximately eighty
villages which weave Bergama carpets. This ancient city was one of the
most powerfull and richest region in Anatolia. The history of carpet
waving in this region has a very old background. Bergama carpets have
always been woven as wool on wool material combination while wefts are all
red. Knoting density of these rugs is about 12 knots per square cm. and
mostly come in three - four square meter sizes. Those woven in Canakkale are slightly larger. Motifs can be divided by two main groups: as Kozak
type and Turkish type. Kozak type rugs have big geometrical designs, these
ones remind Kozak - Gendje region rugs. In Turkish type usually designs
are very floral and emroydreyed with leaves of the pine trees. They
consist mainlyof two colours, the dark reds and blues. In these rugs red
colour, which is used for dyeing the wool yarns, makes the pile less thick
than the rest of the surface after a certain time, so blue motifs appear
higher. The evil eyes that you see at the edges give them an exceptionally
unusual appearence. |
