COLOR IN ANATOLIAN CARPETS AND RUGS
ANADOLU HALI VE KİLİMLERİNDE RENK

Author : Ayşegül KOYUNCU OKCA -- Mustafa GENÇ
Number of pages : 235-246

Abstract

The interest of mankind in colour in parallel with the existence of them, has shaped frame in the opportunities given by nature and has been given different meanings in every culture. A wide variety of fiber dyeing recipe have been created with herbal, animal and mineral originated natural dyes and the color obtained was used on fabrics. The concept of this work is to draw attention to the place and importance of color in the color of the Turkish culture. Particularly, information is given about the colors and obtaining techniques used in the Anatolian carpets and rugs, the development in the historical process and after it is explained the reasons of starting to disappear. In light of our method approach; review of the literature was performed to obtain the data required to reach the objectives, the information obtained by experiments conducted in the laboratory results were evaluated. In addition, by doing field research, the concept of color in the fabrics were documented by photographing.

Keywords

Culture, Weaving, Carpet, Rug, Color

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