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Anatolian · Pictorial
A mihrab arch framing a hanging lamp — the classic prayer format. Hereke workshops were founded to supply the Ottoman court, and the standards have not relaxed since.
Uses your phone camera to place this carpet to scale. No app needed.
Elif Demirtaş
19 years at the loom in Hereke, Kocaeli. We have bought from this workshop since 2011 and pay the price they set.
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This piece is woven at 520 knots per square inch, which works out at roughly 1,740,963 knots in total — every one tied by hand by Elif Demirtaş, over 11 months.
Magnify past 13× and the field stops being a picture and becomes what it actually is: rows of individual knots, each one a decision about colour made at a particular moment.
The same test works in the shop, on any carpet, with no equipment. We wrote up how to do it in the back of the rug tells you everything.
Similar origin, weave and palette.