Gheordez Prayer Rug

Prayer rug one of the major types of rug produced in central and western asia used by muslims primarily to cover the bare ground or floor while they pray.

Gheordez prayer rug.

Prayer rugs are characterized by the prayer niche or mihrab an arch shaped design at one end of the carpet. Its main feature is the mehrab or prayer niche in the centre of the mat which infers stability. The non prayer rugs were and still are popular as decorator pieces similar. The prayer rugs of ghiordes together with those of kula and ladik have long been especially prized in the middle east as well as in europe and the united states some of them date from the last decades of the 18th century borrowing elements from much earlier.

Classic prayer rugs with wide borders and soft often off white color they sparked the imaginations of europe and the us as people began to become familiar with oriental rugs. For sale on 1stdibs early 20th century turkish ghiordes prayer rug. This ghiordes prayer rug dates back to the second half of the eighteenth century. For sale on 1stdibs antique ghiordes prayer rug.

The frame of the mat consists of seven yellow and black vertical lines probably intended to symbolise the seven heavens. A beautiful antique prayer rug in the classical turkish tradition. Ghiordes carpet floor covering handwoven in the town of ghiordes gördes northeast of izmir in western anatolia now in turkey.