Anadolu -Türk Halı Sanatının Serüveni- I

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halı, Anadolu

The Advanture of the Art of Anatolian-Turkish Carpets

Capets weaving which is one of the Turkish cultural products emerged in Central Asia with the Turks and by coming to Europe through the Silk Road, it gained a great significance there. Since the spread of silk weaving in Roman lands during the Göktürk period, the interest in the Turkish weaving had gradually increased, and the Turks brought along their heritage of carpet weaving from the Central Asia to Anatolia. According to the accounts of the 13 th. century travellers, carpet was not only one of the weaving products of Anatolia, but also it became an export product. Today the precence of Seljukian carpts in India, and the ottoman ones in European countries proves this claim. The Turksh folloved the Central Asian Turkish Carpets weaving from tradition of the standpoints of material, dye technique, motives and type. Although most of the motives in today's Aatolian Carpets are based on the traditions of both Anatolian Seljukian and Ottoman Carpets weaving, they have the characteristic of the Central Asian Turkish Carpets. Despite some slight differences in their desingn, there are stil some similarites between the motives of the Turkish States and Communities and the ones found in today's Anatolian Carpets from the perspevtive of their symbolic meaning. Thus, this paper aims to study the adventure of the Anatolian carpets which emerged in the Central Asia with reference to the similarites and differences between these two types of carpets and the symbolic meanI ings of their motives.
Keywords:

carpet, Anatolia,