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Silk Hereke rug
Circa 1980
173 × 108 cm5’8” x 3’6”
£6,800
Description
An extremely fine silk Hereke rug woven around 1980 in remarkable condition and made with the finest silk. Genuine Hereke rugs are only woven in Turkey about 40 miles from Istanbul on the coast. Occasionally Hereke rugs will use gold or silver thread to highlight part of the design. Often Hereke rugs were woven in large sizes and they can be made with wool on cotton or silk or cotton as well as silk on silk. This rug is woven with silk on silk and signed at the top, they use beautiful traditional patterns from classical ottoman designs.
The 31st Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Abdulmejid I (1823-1861) founded the Hereke Imperial manufacturing of silk rugs and textiles in 1841 for his Dolmabahçe Palace on the Bosphorus, the strait of Istanbul. He gathered the best artists and carpet weavers of the Ottoman Empire in Hereke, where they produced fine quality rugs and large carpets with unique designs.
After Abdulmejid I finished his Palace, the Ottoman Sultans used Hereke rugs as gifts to selected visiting royalties, nobleman and statesmen. It was not until the late 19th Century that traders were allowed to sell rugs made at Hereke, they were deemed to special and expensive to do so. When the Ottoman Empire ended, weaving Hereke rugs was restricted until the middle of the 20th Century.
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