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| (below) The Silk Road The journey from our neighborhood to Atpazari Can Sokak in Ulus (This is for John, who likes trip maps) | ||
| Small Inset Photos: (top) Street sign for Can Sokağı (JAHN soe-kaa), the carpet store street (above middle) Looking up Can Sokağı (middle) Famous replica of a Hittite iron sculpture Also sometimes known as "Bullwinkle" (below middle) Major traffic at a major intersection (bottom) The view from our neighborhood toward Ulus |
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Taşpinar
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| Whole carpet (above) and details of the borders and fringe ends (below) | |
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| The fringe on the two ends are different and I think one end is missing a part, though Recep says it's OK. The fringe on the photo on the right is pink at the roots and there is a small portion of the black border missing. (See enlargement, below right.) It looks like there should have been several rows of cranberry outside the black, also. Usually when we ask for something to be repaired, Recep says "Of course; no problem", but when I asked if this end could be made to look like the other end, he said "That would be difficult". | |
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| (left) The greenish-brown background area shows evidence of corrosion | |
| All of the parts of this carpet that are the dark greenish-brown color are worn away much deeper than anywhere else on the carpet. My carpet book (Oriental Rugs: An Introduction by Gordon Redford Walker) says this type of wear was caused by the use of aniline dyes in the late 19th century. Recep says this carpet is all natural dyes and that some of the plant dyes had that corrosive effect, also. | |
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| Colors are always hard to judge on a computer monitor. I would describe the main colors in this carpet as denim blue, cranberry red, army green, and old ivory. (Sorry about the date stamp on that last photo; I was trying out a new digital camera and didn't realize that feature was turned on.) | |
Dösemealti-Antalya |
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| Whole carpet (above) and details (below) | |
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| Border close-up | Corner |
| The main colors are cranberry and deep aqua; secondary colors include ivory, navy, dark burgundy (almost the color of dark chocolate), and paler cranberry. | |
| Central panel | |
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Burdur |
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| Whole carpet (above) and details (below) | |
| The carpet does lay flat; I threw it down in a sunny spot to photograph it and didn't get it flat before I took the photos. | |
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| The main colors are salmon, navy, and ivory, with touches of aqua and two shades of tan. | |
Afgan-Halmehredi |
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| The main color is toward the red end of the standard Afghani red-oranges. It looks brick-red most of the time and never goes that burnt-orange color that some Afghanis do. The dark accent color is true navy--almost a blue-black--and the light accent is pale yellow/gold. | |
Keşmir
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Made by Afghan refugees in Pakistan, it is a combined Iranian/Pakistani design. It has a central medallion, roses, dark border, cream background, fairly pale rose, blue, and green tones. |
Kayseri |
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| Whole carpet (above) and detail (below) | |
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| The main colors are peach, rose, forest green, periwinkle, & ivory. |