The kilims, gelim in Persian, or turkish Karamani in the region of Anatolia known as Karaman, consist of a flat-woven knotless technique that uses the warp and weft in decorative and expressive. Usually you do not have a right and a wrong side and are made of pure wool.
And 'an ancient process that dates back to the fifth millennium before Christ, at the end of the Neolithic-Anatolian, and that is likely to inherit the iconographic repertoire of the murals.
They are particularly popular in Turkey but also in Persia, where they are semi-nomadic tribes of the prerogative (Shahsavan, Qashqay, Afshari, Bakhtiari, Baluch), and Turkmenistan.

The Uzbekistan occupies a vast territory lying along the upper Amu-Darya, Syr-Darya and its tributaries, closed north of the Aral Sea and south of the Ferghana valley. It borders Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. E 'has always been inhabited by nomads who have been sedentary, with models and agricultural traditions is little changed since the time of the Achaemenid (VI century BC).

The Kazak rugs were woven in a wide area stretching from southern Georgia to Armenia all'Azarbaijan northwestern (region of Kazak-Gendje). The name comes from Qazax, a district of the khanate Gendje role in the control of the valleys that came from Georgia and Armenia in the South Caucasus. In ancient times the area north of Lake Sevan, Armenia at present, was inhabited by descendants of the ancient Mongol hordes shepherds, called Kazak, or Cossacks, the Russian steppes. Despite some historical data of the first half of the nineteenth century Armenian detect a majority in the production of carpets, it is difficult to generalize in an area so difficult to study. The fundamental fact is the kind of processing of a carpet.

The Kazak rugs were woven in a wide area stretching from southern Georgia to Armenia all'Azarbaijan northwestern (region of Kazak-Gendje). The name comes from Qazax, a district of the khanate Gendje role in the control of the valleys that came from Georgia and Armenia in the South Caucasus.
In ancient times the area north of Lake Sevan, Armenia at present, was inhabited by descendants of the ancient Mongol hordes shepherds, called Kazak, or Cossacks, the Russian steppes. Despite some historical data of the first half of the nineteenth century Armenian detect a majority in the production of carpets, it is difficult to generalize in an area so difficult to study. The fundamental fact is the kind of processing of a carpet.

The Uzbekistan occupies a vast territory lying along the upper Amu-Darya, Syr-Darya and its tributaries, closed north of the Aral Sea and south of the Ferghana valley. It borders Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. E 'has always been inhabited by nomads who have been sedentary, with models and agricultural traditions is little changed since the time of the Achaemenid (VI century BC).

Ferahan / Farahan is a district of the province of Markazy and is located southwest of Arak / Sultanabad. And 'situated on a plateau about 600 km. from the capital Tehran and is home to some 200 towns and villages, which include the eponymous Farahan, and Khonjin Saruq. Formerly called Farmahin.
Roughly coinciding with the province of Arak and can be between the cities of Arak, south, west Jozan, Kashan and Qum, respectively, to the southeast and northeast.
Jozan Malayer and, despite being close to the area of Hamedan and using the node turkish symmetric under the influence of Saruq for the style. They are part of Farahan also a part of Arak, Ashtiani and Tafresh.

The country's most famous Farahan Saruq which is now about 2500 inhabitants and is the birthplace of the famous American Saruq produced from 1870 to 1930.
This town also gave birth to important political figures of the twentieth century of which he is proud: Amir Kabir, Mirza Bozorg and Mirza Abul Gasem Farahani Farahani.

Afghanistan
The term means "land of the Afghans," but it is difficult to recognize a very specific ethnicity in the country, since it is populated by a mixture of Iranian peoples, Indian and Turkmen. The population is divided into several ethnic groups (tribes), of which the Pashtuns are the majority, then there are Tajiks, Azeris, Turkmen and Uzbeks. According to some authors the term "Pashtun" would indicate the northern Iranian population, according to others the term derives from the Afghan Persian term "apachan", indicating a position of nobility of the fourth century AD.

Tashkent is the capital and is the largest city in Central Asia. The Fergana Valley to the east of the country hosts the highest concentration of people of Uzbekistan, which is one third of the population. In Samarkand, the second city in the country, speak the Tajik language, as well as in many neighboring communities such as Bukhara and Qarshi. while the rest is spoken of Uzbekistan, a turkish-language Oriental with loans from Persian, Arabic and Russian.
The more you move westwards over the population thins out. The Karakalpakstan, an autonomous region inhabited by tribes Karakalpak and Kazakhstan, in the past had extensive cultivation of cotton for the many canals of the Amu Darya. Today, the area has undergone a profound change in climate due to the depletion of the river, which has withered and no longer stocked the large Aral Sea, causing an environmental disaster and the emigration of its inhabitants.
Today about 40% of Uzbeks live in cities, the remaining 60% in towns and villages in the countryside.

Ziegler The company of Swiss origin, but rooted in England in Manchester, was responsible for import from the East (Turkey and Persia) various kinds of business (nuts, charcoal, spices, medicinal herbs, etc..), And exported cotton printed English . In 1862 he opened a first branch in Tabriz and Rast. In 1882 he came to care for carpets in Sultanabad and in 1885 the company absorbed Hotz and Son in that area Saruk was in the same branch of trade.
The renewed interest in Europe for art and artifacts of the East, made official by the great London Exhibition of 1862 and the new Art Nouveau style favored trade with Persia. The closure of the company Axminster (burned in the second half of the nineteenth century) which produced carpets for the rich bourgeoisie English was the launch pad for companies like Ziegler who imported, produced or commissioned knotted in Persia.

The famous drawing Gul (flower) is reported more often in various forms of the tribe and the dominant color is red. The quality is always mediocre or poor, however, very commercial. The wools are mostly poor.

Main measures: mostly all formats. Main colors: very dark red, brown, black, blue, camel, touches of white, beige and orange. Technical details of the Afghan carpet warp: usually wool. Synopsis: usually wool

The rugs come to Europe but did not fit the new needs of the homes size, design and color.
The formats of traditional Persian rugs citizens provided a central piece surrounded on both sides of two pieces closer and a head long and narrow, forming a set for the largest square. But the houses of the new European bourgeoisie is stretched and in need of larger sizes and square. The tribal rugs were not taken into account, because they were considered artifacts humble.
The traditional designs and rich colors and contrasting light and did not respond to the taste of the elegant Liberty, is not consistent to the function of decorative background and does not lighten the dark for low light environments.

The Ersari Gul have a very large, octagonal design and well defined. At the center is a square with a small flowering shrub, while the rest is divided into four parts with the same decorum played on the colors of red and blue.

The Ersari Gul have a very large, octagonal design and well defined. At the center is a square with a small flowering shrub, while the rest is divided into four parts with the same decorum played on the colors of red and blue.