TURKEY
In 1907,,F.R.Martin discovered three large and several small small rug fragments in the alaeddin mosque at konya(central anatolia),the city that gave its name of the type,and was once a capital of seljuqs of Rum,the dynasty that riled anatolia until AH707/AD1307.together with additional small fragments,plus one that,at the time of its discovery,was still preaerved in its original format and came from the eshrefoglu mosque at beyshehir(around 80 kilometers south-west of kohya)these constitute the small group of ‘konya’ or ‘seljuq’carpets. Their thirteenth-century dating matches the completion of the mosque’s extension(1218-20)-a pleausible reason for their production – although there is no evidence of connection.they are generally described as small-pattern carpets,in that have no cental medallions,their borders are wide and unsophihisticated,and the weaving is crude and not dissimilar to village rugs of much later date,although compared with later Ushark carpets,the colours are hadled with greater subtlety.
The konya carpets now kept in Turk ve Islam Eserleri Muzusi in Istanbul have been published often enough in sufficient detail to make further reproduction here unnescessary.