The Krayer Konya Karapinar Rug

JBOC Attribution: Oriental Rugs > Turkish Rugs > Konya Area Rugs > Karapinar Rug

Ed Krayer A Member of Our Trusted Dealers List sent these images to me ages ago. They have been sitting in a broken computer and I was just able to retrieve them. Poor Ed probably thinks I am nuts for taking so long.

The basic design is one we see in many areas in Turkey. This includes Konya, Karapinar, Mujar and others. The pattern and color remind me of a rug attributed to Mujur page 87 in Oriental Carpets by Ulrich Schurmann. The purple in both of these rugs appears to the one we see in pre-synthetic Anatolian rugs. In the detail picture below note how the pile height varies by color. This is also a sign of a very old rug. The brown is down to the collars, the red is low and the tan is still thick. I suspect the tan is undyed camel wool.