CENTRAL ANATOLIA, MID 19TH CENTURY

The traditional square-format yataks, the Turkish word for ‘bed’, are woven with a lower knot count, having loosely spun, silky long-piled wool on a foundation characterised by a number of weft shoots. A typical feature of these sleeping rugs is their narrow border, here with a simple design of stepped polychrome roundels on an on an apricot ground. A yatak of comparable colouring but much more densely woven with flowers was with Peter Bausback, Antique Carpets. Franz Bausback Collection, Mannheim 2000, ill. p.49.