If you like luxury, what means you like the awesome beauty, then a genuine Hereke Carpet is a must-be in your home.
With their warm colours and harmonious patterns they embellish your home and they will be an eye-catcher for each of your visitors. Who once came in direct contact with these luxurious silk rugs, learns that they seem to be alive, learns the conversation with them. A genuine Hereke Silk Carpet always has to tell you something new. You only have to have a look there and to hear its stories. A Hereke Silk Carpet has its own mystery, which we invite you to discover.
The Hereke Silk Carpets at first were hand knotted in the Ottoman Royal Factory in Hereke, which was established by the Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid I. in 1844. He wished there were created the "finest carpets of the world" for his "biggest palace of the world", the Dolmabahçe Palace, wich in this time was built on the coast of the Marmara Sea.
For this reason the young Sultan Abdulmecid I. gathered the best artists of his Empire in Hereke to create designs, wich were seen never before. The best masters of the hand knotting art knotted really the finest carpets in the world, using the finest silk from Bursa in warp, weft and knot. Only with that technology and the high density of the Turkisch double Knot it was possible to display the wonderful patterns so clearly that the viewer means to see a painting.
These luxurious masterpieces of hand knotting art from Hereke at first were produced exclusively for the Dolmabahçe Palace, later for the noblemens of the Ottoman Curt as an award of the Sultan and for the kings, princess and statesmen as an hostess gift. Only in the end of the 19th century it was allowed to some selected traders to sell a limited number of the Hereke Silk Carpets. After the first World War and the end of the Ottoman Empire the production of these luxurious Hereke Silk Carpets descented almost totally. Only in the 50th years of the 20th century some of the old master weavers started once more to knot these finest silk rugs.
Today once more the finest silk rugs of the world are knotted in Hereke, the small town near Istanbul. Each of these luxurious masterpieces are hand knotted totally of pure natural finest silk from Bursa with a knot density of at least 1,000,000 knots per square meter, what are 100 knots per square centimeter. For the art lovers, collectors and esthetes of this world are knotted even finer silk rugs: 4,000,000 knots per square meter = 400 knots per square centimeter. And sometimes are knotted even finder silk rugs...
With their warm colours and harmonious patterns they embellish your home and they will be an eye-catcher for each of your visitors. Who once came in direct contact with these luxurious silk rugs, learns that they seem to be alive, learns the conversation with them. A genuine Hereke Silk Carpet always has to tell you something new. You only have to have a look there and to hear its stories. A Hereke Silk Carpet has its own mystery, which we invite you to discover.
The Hereke Silk Carpets at first were hand knotted in the Ottoman Royal Factory in Hereke, which was established by the Ottoman Sultan Abdulmecid I. in 1844. He wished there were created the "finest carpets of the world" for his "biggest palace of the world", the Dolmabahçe Palace, wich in this time was built on the coast of the Marmara Sea.
For this reason the young Sultan Abdulmecid I. gathered the best artists of his Empire in Hereke to create designs, wich were seen never before. The best masters of the hand knotting art knotted really the finest carpets in the world, using the finest silk from Bursa in warp, weft and knot. Only with that technology and the high density of the Turkisch double Knot it was possible to display the wonderful patterns so clearly that the viewer means to see a painting.
These luxurious masterpieces of hand knotting art from Hereke at first were produced exclusively for the Dolmabahçe Palace, later for the noblemens of the Ottoman Curt as an award of the Sultan and for the kings, princess and statesmen as an hostess gift. Only in the end of the 19th century it was allowed to some selected traders to sell a limited number of the Hereke Silk Carpets. After the first World War and the end of the Ottoman Empire the production of these luxurious Hereke Silk Carpets descented almost totally. Only in the 50th years of the 20th century some of the old master weavers started once more to knot these finest silk rugs.
Today once more the finest silk rugs of the world are knotted in Hereke, the small town near Istanbul. Each of these luxurious masterpieces are hand knotted totally of pure natural finest silk from Bursa with a knot density of at least 1,000,000 knots per square meter, what are 100 knots per square centimeter. For the art lovers, collectors and esthetes of this world are knotted even finer silk rugs: 4,000,000 knots per square meter = 400 knots per square centimeter. And sometimes are knotted even finder silk rugs...
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I think, you know for yourself very well that it is not possible to speak about genuine Hereke Silk Carpets, if the used silk were not from Bursa. And you know also that each expert, more those who are appointed and sworn by the Chamber of Commerce, are able to ascertain, which silk was used to hand knot these awesome masterpieces of hand knotting art.
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