Quality and Design

There are produced a lot of different types of carpets in Turkey, which  on the basis of their typical patterns and colours can be assigned to the regions of its origin. Among of others there are the typical Bergama carpets (the former antique Pergamon), Bursa, Konya – and of course Hereke Carpets, which combine perfectly tradition, beauty, luxury and elegance. Finest silken carpets are hand knotted in Hereke today just like 150 years ago.

The fine quality and the details of the Hereke Carpets arise in the complex naturalistic floral and sometimes animal patterns and in the complicated motifs. The main colours in Hereke Carpets are dark blue, black, ivory, cinnamon, but yellow, green, red and other colours are used as well. Traditional floral patterns for the Hereke Carpets are the “Flowers of the Seven Mountains”, tulips, watermelons and field flowers.

Due to the extremely high knot densities of the Hereke Silk Carpets it is possible to knot very complex designs. They show the common motifs like flowers, but as well birds, the "Tree of Life" and Mihrabs or oriental hunting scenes, but as well customized patterns like coat of arms, emblems and portraits. Hereke Carpets also show Christian motifs like the "Last Supper" after the painting of Da Vinci.

The multicoloured patterns, which were created by the best pattern drawer for the Ottoman Court in the mid of the 19^th century, are mostly unchanged knotted even today, but temporary patterns are knotted as well.

A genuine Hereke silken Carpet are always knotted using silk from Bursa.

The minimum knot density for a genuine Hereke silken Carpet is 10 x 10 knots per cm². The present developments allow to knot even finer silk carpets with unbelievable 24 x 24 = 576 knots per cm². These excellent masterpieces show a level of details, which are unmatched.

These incomparable luxurious carpets with their perfection, richness of colours and harmony are rightly the proud of Turkey.