Hereke Carpets - Tradition, Beauty, Luxury and Elegance
These famous carpets are the finest of the world. They are handknotted totally (warp, weft and knots) of the best silk from Bursa with a density of minimum 1.000.000 knots per square meter. Once they were destined only for kings and princes and today they could embellish your home and give a touch of luxury to it.
These silk carpets from Hereke are as well the most durable, because these masterpieces are handknotted with the strong Double or Turkish Knot, which allows these highest densities and makes these carpets such durable.
The Hereke Silk Carpets will not only warmth your home, but they also tell about the high art of handknotted silk carpets, which on this density are made only in Hereke.
On our website Hereke Carpets you will find a fine colleciton of these famous carpets - and you, of course, can get them there.
We grant the originiality of the Hereke Carpets you can purchase on our website not only with our good name, but as well with a certificate of the official Turkish Hereke Carpets Weavers Association, for our customer this service is, of course, free of charge.
Please note that the pictures of the Hereke Silk Carpets have my own copyright: Solveigh Calderin (all rights reserved) and the pictures of the Turkish and Persian Knots are in the copyright of Dania Calderin (all rights reserved). Thanks.
These silk carpets from Hereke are as well the most durable, because these masterpieces are handknotted with the strong Double or Turkish Knot, which allows these highest densities and makes these carpets such durable.
The Hereke Silk Carpets will not only warmth your home, but they also tell about the high art of handknotted silk carpets, which on this density are made only in Hereke.
On our website Hereke Carpets you will find a fine colleciton of these famous carpets - and you, of course, can get them there.
We grant the originiality of the Hereke Carpets you can purchase on our website not only with our good name, but as well with a certificate of the official Turkish Hereke Carpets Weavers Association, for our customer this service is, of course, free of charge.
Please note that the pictures of the Hereke Silk Carpets have my own copyright: Solveigh Calderin (all rights reserved) and the pictures of the Turkish and Persian Knots are in the copyright of Dania Calderin (all rights reserved). Thanks.
Table of Contents
- The "King's Carpet"
- The Turkish Carpet
- Luxury and Elegance - only by child's hand?
- Squidoo Links
- The colours and patterns
- About Silk and Silk Carpets
- The durability of Hereke Silk Carpets
- Hand knotting a Hereke Silk Carpet
- Hereke Silk Carpets - The flying carpets exist!
- The Chinese carpet knotting
- The trust and the knowledge buying a silk carpet
- Thank you for voting for my lens
- Our current collection on Flickr
- Articles and Blogs
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The "King's Carpet"
That's my name for this awesome beautiful rug
To understand the fineness of these wonderful carpets, please take a lineal, mark a quadrat of 1 x 1 cm (0,39 x 0,39 inch) and then try to put with a pencil 100 points in it. Now you have an imagination, what it means to knot 100 double knots per 1 square centimeter (appr. 0,15 square inch). That is "only" the standard density of 1.000.000 knots per square meter of the Hereke Silk Carpets. There are densities of 4.000.000 knots per square meter possible, what are 400 knots per square centimeter - and sometimes even finer! Really incredible, but true! The Turkish Carpet
Did you know that until about 150 years ago the Turkish carpet was the epitome of Oriental carpets? Why did that change?
Luxury and Elegance - only by child's hand?
Often our customers ask, if it were true, that only child's hand are able to knot such fine carpets. Read here, why that never ever could be true.
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The colours and patterns
You have to know that a Hereke Silk Carpet is knotted with up to 37 various colours (and, please, do not forget the high density). Therefore these beautiful silk rugs seem so warm and vivids.The Turkish patterns look so harmounious, because they are composed almost on a axis of symmetric. That is one of the characterisics of the Turkish rugs. There are some exclusion in this rule, because in the time of Abdülmecid I. there was a "Persian Style" on the Ottoman court. However, the Anatolian origin never can be negated. If some patterns are not on an axis of symmetry, the rich and harmony of colours is characteristic for the Turkish rugs.
Find here some more details of the here shown awesome beautyful Hereke Silk Carpet
About Silk and Silk Carpets
A lot of people think, a silk carpet or rug is not for using everyday.
There are a lot of people, who tell that a silk carpet can be used only for watching on the wall.
Booth is not (always) true.
People, who talk things like this to its customer may talk about a rug, which is produced with silk only in knots and the warp and weft are of cotton or wool. It also can be that the used silk is not the filament silk (what is the best), but the Staple fibre silk or worst, the Bourette silk. Further it could be that the carpets are knotted with the single persian knot in poor quality. Those silk rugs, of course, are not very durable and you can only watch them on the wall.
There are a lot of people, who tell that a silk carpet can be used only for watching on the wall.
Booth is not (always) true.
People, who talk things like this to its customer may talk about a rug, which is produced with silk only in knots and the warp and weft are of cotton or wool. It also can be that the used silk is not the filament silk (what is the best), but the Staple fibre silk or worst, the Bourette silk. Further it could be that the carpets are knotted with the single persian knot in poor quality. Those silk rugs, of course, are not very durable and you can only watch them on the wall.
What are the differences between the named kinds of silk?
Here you can see silk coccons The Silk Filament
is also named the natural silk. It is originated from the continuous fibre out of the middle of cocoon. This fibre is usually more than 1,000 meters (1093.17 yards or 0,62 miles) long and is in uncoiled condition prior to its manufacturing process. When silk filament has been treated correctly, it is the finest, strongest and toughest type of silk. The Bourette Silk
is product of coarse spinning procedure from short fibre pieces.
The Staple fibre Silk or Chappe-Silk
consists of all inferior silk parts dropped off during the preparation process, what is shwon on this picture. These silk parts are of different minor qualities and values and after cleaning they will be yarned and become to Chappe-silk. This fibre differs from other silk fibres by its rough and fibrous surface and it is also called "Strazza". Some characteristics of silk
Silk is the most tough and solid thread produced by nature and it could not been reproduced yet by humans until today.
It can be stretched about approx. 15% without tearing.
It can take up upto 30% of its net weight in humidity without feeling wet.
The surface is stain resistant and insensible with smells.
It is poor in crease and dries fastly.
It isolates very well, in winter warmly, in summer chilly.
It is extremely tearproof and does not chafe lightly.
It can be stretched about approx. 15% without tearing.
It can take up upto 30% of its net weight in humidity without feeling wet.
The surface is stain resistant and insensible with smells.
It is poor in crease and dries fastly.
It isolates very well, in winter warmly, in summer chilly.
It is extremely tearproof and does not chafe lightly.
The durability of Hereke Silk Carpets
Aside from the characteristics of silk the high knot density and the double Turkish knots are cause for the durability of the Hereke Silk Carpets.
Why the kind of knots are so important?
If you already bought a carpet, it could be you astonished, why cleaning the carpet it leaves some or a lot of piles. The reason for that are both, the used and the quality of knots. The more piles a carpet leaves, the poorer is the quality of the knots and/or the less is the knot density.
Why the kind of knots are so important?
If you already bought a carpet, it could be you astonished, why cleaning the carpet it leaves some or a lot of piles. The reason for that are both, the used and the quality of knots. The more piles a carpet leaves, the poorer is the quality of the knots and/or the less is the knot density.
The Turkish double (symmetrical) knot
is knotted around two warp threads. Both ends of the weft thread are wrapped completely around the warp threads and then pulled out between them and cut off.The Turkish knot in combination with the high density of no less than 100 knots per square centimeter (1 square centimeter = 0,155 square inch) make it some difficult to demage our Hereke Silk Carpets.
Hand knotting a Hereke Silk Carpet
A short view of the process to knot a genuine Hereke Silk Carpet
That's a really master waever!
turkish woman weaving silk carpet
in this carpet factory these women weorked 10 minutes, than had 10 minutes break and so on. but their fingers were fast as hell...
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Hereke Silk Carpets - The flying carpets exist!
A funny video, what shows the proverbial durability of the Hereke Silk Carpets
Flying carpets do exist. Marmaris-05
Flying carpets do exist. Marmaris-05
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The Persian single (asymmetrical) knot
The Persian knot is knotted asymmetrically around two adjacent warp threads; the weft thread is wrapped completely around one warp thread and looped under the next, thus covering half of it. The Djufti knot
To save material and to produce the carpets faster, the knots could be knotted arround two or even three warp threads. The Chinese carpet knotting
Here you can see very well, how this woman knots a Djutti knot - and not only arround two or three warp threads, it seems she knot it arround four or even five warp threads.
No wonder that you can buy a Chinese silk carpet at that low prices!
No wonder that you can buy a Chinese silk carpet at that low prices!
Silk Carpet Weaving
One of several educational/sales opportunities that are part of most tours of China. A short explanation of silk carpet weaving followed by an opportunity to purchase carpets safely at factory prices.
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The trust and the knowledge buying a silk carpet
In wich way you, the customer, could know, if you go to buy a real silk rug, or a silk rug with warp and weft of cotton or wool, or if you received a carpet with poor quality of silk?
That - to be tell the true is very difficult.
The first step to know about the quality is the offered price. If there is one who offers a rug of pure natural silk with a high price, what is reduced at 70 %, you should be extremely cautious. The 70 % discount is a sign for a rug with poor quality. Very often a carpet bought at such a high discount is not the money worth, you spent for it. Such a "cheap" carpet or rug very often is an expensive experience.
Already the old Chineses said always: "Who buys cheap, buys expensive."
That - to be tell the true is very difficult.
The first step to know about the quality is the offered price. If there is one who offers a rug of pure natural silk with a high price, what is reduced at 70 %, you should be extremely cautious. The 70 % discount is a sign for a rug with poor quality. Very often a carpet bought at such a high discount is not the money worth, you spent for it. Such a "cheap" carpet or rug very often is an expensive experience.
Already the old Chineses said always: "Who buys cheap, buys expensive."
A comparison
Chinese Hereke Replica, made with two colors: cream and apricot.(this is an example, what I found in the internet)
The seller of this carpet tells the buyer, this carpet had 1,000,000 knots per m², material silk and it is offered as "luxury". The size is given with 122 cm x 76 cm. The seller further tells that the trade price were 1,490 Euro (appr. 2,152 US$), but the customer would get this carpet for
499 Euro (appr. 721 US$).
The offered price is at appr. 66 % (or 2/3) lower than the given primary "trade price"! No trader is able to give you a 66 % discount, if he would like to live.
In newest time I saw some sellers, who offer Chinese silk rugs with Hereke patterns, but call them Hereke Silk Carpets - that is lying the customers. So I would advise you: If you like to purchase a genuine Herke Silk Carpet: look at the price. If it seems too good, to be true - you can be sure: It is a lie, you are purchasing a rug with Hereke patterns, but not a genuine Hereke Silk Carpet.
The Guarantee
The certificate of the origin and quality looks like that in the picture here.Here is written:
"An assured genuine handknotted orient carpet. For the authenticy of this carpet we assume the full guarantee."
The rest, I think, you can understand without translation.
You can also see, that this label is put not on the offered carpet, which is knotted only in "cream and appricoat" - why I can see here green and red and brown? On this "guarantee" there is to read no word about the density of this carpet, no word about the origin of this carpet and no word about the material of this carpet. I have to believe that CH-Hereke means China Hereke. It could be also Chile Hereke or any other land, what begins with CH, like Chechoslovakia.
This guarantee is a paper, what every one can print in any print office of the world... or with the own printer on the own computer.
For comparision now another more pichture of a genuine Hereke Silk Carpet A test - and the trust
Further to the price there is a test in smell. You have to take a little part of thread and to burn it. If it is smelling like burned human hair, it is silk. But that, of course, is some difficult to do... and you can't take a part of warp and weft to try the same...So the bying of a silk carpet (and theremore a genuine Hereke Silk Carpet) is a kind of trust? Yes, it is.
Where ever and in wich way ever - online or in a real shop - you buy a handknotted rug or carpet, you have to trust the trader. You have to believe, what he is telling you, like in each other shop you have to trust that in the package is, what is written on it.
My advise: If you like to buy a valuable carpet, ask for a qualified (not their own written) certificate. If there is a trader, who does not like to give you for the "handknotted silk carpet of best quality" such a certification, what do you think, could be the reason for that?
That is the cause, why our Hereke Silk Carpets are sent with a certificat of the official Turkish Hereke Carpet Weavers Association, free of charge. The number given in this certificate you can always verify on the website of this Association, so that you can be sure to get a really genuine Hereke Carpet.
If you wish, of course, you can get the certificate of an expert of the Chamber of Commerce in Germany as well. This special service is free of charge for purchased Hereke Carpets with a value of more than 5.000 Euro (7,700 US$).
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Other sources about Hereke Carpets and Rugs
Here you'll find an short article about the famous Hereke Carpets
- Encyclopedia - The free dictionary
- Articles and descriptions
- The Ottomans
- This site tells a lot of interesting details about the Ottomans - and, of course, about our Hereke Silk Carpets, too.
- My Blog
- In this Blog you'll find some information about our famous Hereke Silk Carpets in German.
- Wikipedia about the famous Hereke Silk Carpets
- Here is a short article in Wikipedia about the famous Hereke Silk Carpets. I did not say, that the most handknotted silk carpets are in great sizes, because the duration for production of such a great carpets would be about some years...
- The Turkish Embassy
- Here you can read, what the Turkish Embassy writes about the Turkish Carpets and rugs.
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Marelisa wrote...
What a beautiful lens. One hundred double knots per 1 square centimeter, wow!
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rydigga wrote...
Hello,
This is a great lens, thanks for sharing. The carpets look beatiful.
Ryan
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