general: Why not?
In particular, I implore you to be very careful and not to be guided by your feelings.
know the buyer in all the resorts in the world that the purses are sitting relaxed on holiday. If you normally think three times before you spend hundreds or even thousands of euros for a beautiful carpet, you are on holiday soon ready.
Why do people act like this?
The reason is simple: On vacation, we are in a happy frenzy. The holiday is all well and nice, because we WANT it this way - it's time! Our brain serotonin pours - in large quantities and so we see everything in a soft light, everything is wonderful and there is nothing wrong - the happy hormone. This is the same rush that we experience when we are newly in love.
Let us then return to our normal environment, the noise vanishes, and now you are diving with your carpet at home and the questions: Is this a real
Hereke?
Is justified the price too much or did I paid?
How can I tell if the carpet is real and the price justified?
What can I do now? answer
To the last question first:
If you have spent a large sum of money, you go to a publicly appointed and sworn expert of the Chamber of Commerce and can check the carpet.
Does your carpet not cost too much, you simply enjoy your beautiful and colorful souvenir from Turkey.
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I think it is better to think about these questions before your holiday , I want to give you some tips for buying genuine Hereke silk carpets give during your stay in Turkey.
course I will not tell you that every Turkish carpet dealer was a fraud or impostor, that would be a lie. The fact is that it is very difficult for a layman to find out whether the offered silk Hereke carpet is a real or not.
why is my first and most important advice for you:
Be careful not to allow that to play with your emotions!
Before you go on vacation, you must know that all prices significantly in all tourist centers on the Earth are higher than anywhere else, because the cost of the rental business, and so on are also much higher.
If it is important for you to buy a Turkish rug in Turkey and for this reason, you accept the higher price - okay.
But if you think (or get the feeling), you would go to Turkey and make a bargain and pay a higher price - not then that's fine.
The worst thing you can do is that you will be a "genuine Hereke silk carpet" at a higher price than generally available - and you get a replica. This is criminal. Unfortunately it is very difficult to "get to" these scammers, they often have no address or name, the seller often change, sometimes from week to week. you have no one you can hold accountable.
The seller in Turkey call usually beginning with a very high price to negotiate down to dnn. This gives you the feeling that you have made a bargain, but at the end of the negotiated price is still higher than usual. My clients told me about prices, up to 25% higher than the usual - and they were replicas.
A detail of the carpet shown above
The pattern of the genuine Hereke silk carpets are always very fine and perfectly worked out.
The same pattern, but a fake.
Compare the fineness of the patterns, especially of birds and flowers. The Arabic characters displayed in the carpet are sprung from the imagination and have no meaning. The letters in the middle are the name of Allah only. No Muslim would make a rug in the name of Allah, for it is an insult to the name of Allah connect. I asked a friend who is Arabic native speakers - a more Ecademy Connection.
In the genuine Hereke silk rug of this design verses of Mevlana Rumi established.
I would ask you to pay attention to a few more things when you during your stay in Turkey a genuine Hereke silk rug is offered.
first Please listen carefully to what you, the seller says
not lie virtually all sellers, even though they give you a carpet at a higher price than it is worth to sell. Therefore, they choose words that give you the wrong idea, because you are not alert enough.
Does the seller of Anatolian oder türkischen Teppichen mit Hereke Mustern? - Das mag ein schöner Seidenteppich sein, hergestellt in der Türkei, aber es ist kein echter Hereke.
Spricht er von Seidenteppichen mit Hereke Mustern? - Das könnte ein chinesischer oder indischer Seidenteppich sein.
Ein Verkäufer erwiderte mir, nachdem ich ihm sagte, dass seine mit dem selben Preis wie echte Hereke angebotenen Teppiche keine echten Hereke seien, dass "die Knüpftechnik das Kriterium sei." - eine Lüge.
Ein echter Hereke Teppich ist nur dann echt, wenn er in Hereke geknüpft wurde und nirgendwo anders.
Wenn der Verkäufer von einem real or genuine Hereke carpet speaks, he should be able to attest to that. Preferably with a certificate of the Hereke Carpet Weavers Association, which for me is the most trusted.
second Grasp the carpet at
the carpet feels soft like a stuffed animal? This could be a Chinese silk rug.
Run your hand first in one direction of the carpet - with the pile. It feels like human skin. Then go back with your hands - against the nap. It feels like velvet. If you feel that it could be a genuine Hereke.
third Turn the rug to
If the rows perfectly straight? It could be a real Hereke.
See this example:
The "Tree of Life" from my sample collection with his back
A genuine Hereke silk rug shows his pattern on the back always as clear as on the front .
Sind die Reihen wellig? Sind die Knoten nicht perfekt? Es könnte ein anatolischer, chinesischer oder indischer Teppich mit Herke Mustern sein.
4. Zählen Sie die Knoten
Sind da wirklich 10 x 10 oder 12 x 12 Knoten pro Quadratzentimeter? Fast alle Teppichhändler werden Ihnen mit einem Knotenzähler aushelfen. Wenn nicht, nehmen Sie ein Lineal und zählen die Knoten auf einen Zentimeter einmal vertikal und einmal horizontal. Sie sollten auf die angegebenen 10 x 10 oder 12 x 12 Knoten kommen. Nehmen Sie sich die Zeit, wirklich zu zählen. Zählen Sie an various parts of the carpet. If there were large are differences, use caution! Small differences can give it more, because the rugs are made by hand.
5th Ask to use the producer and the production process
The Chinese like to have similar looking and sounding names of manufacturers that actually exist or existed.
If anyone does not want to call the producers, but you start something about "women in the vicinity of Hereke" or something similar to tell, be careful!
I've heard that the pile burned down (!) Was to the very low and to obtain uniform pile, as is common in real Hereke silk carpets. When I asked I was told that this would be done so to give the strings more durability. That is a lie and it is only made for one reason only this: The carpet can be completed faster and is therefore cheaper to produce. But why do they sell the rug then at the same cost or even at a higher price than a genuine Hereke would? And why do they call their carpets 100% handmade?
is a genuine Hereke carpet always 100% handmade. No machine (except the loom) touches the carpet. The pile is knotted after each series trimmed by hand using special scissors. And the real Hereke silk carpets are more durable with the Turkish double knots (Gördes node) attached.
Turkish double knots (Gördesknoten) Copyright of this drawing: Dania Calderin
6th Find out where the silk is
A genuine Hereke silk rug is always linked with silk from Bursa in Turkey. No cheap Chinese cashmere or silk is used. Once I was told that silk from Brazil would be used "because it is better"? For a genuine Hereke? It is cheaper, of course, But why such expensive carpets are then sold as genuine Hereke?
7th Ask for a Certificate
the certificate should include:
The origin of the carpet
A picture of the carpet
A serial number
The producers
The material
The Knot density
The size
the name of the pattern
The certificate should explicitly express that you get a real or genuine Hereke. If only 100% hand and / or 100% called Turkish or Anatolian product, so far as the not confirm the authenticity of a real Hereke - quite the contrary!
If there
only the address of a dealer (maybe even without the name of the dealer) and a name and address of a company called abroad, please be very careful. It makes no sense, a genuine Hereke (see above) abroad produce and then bring him to Turkey.
you should have the possibility to verify the certificate.
Tell the Hänlder that this carpet by an expert who is admitted to chambers of commerce and the courts can verify.
Hereke Carpet Weavers The certificate of the Association shares with, for example, that you get a genuine Hereke. There are two serial numbers genannt: Eine für den Teppich und eine für das Zertifikat. Beide müssen übereinstimmen, um die Echtheit und Einmaligkeit des Teppichs und des Zertifikats zu bestätigen. Sie können dieses Zertifikat von überall auf der Welt über das Internet, durch einen Brief oder Telefon-Anruf bestätigen lassen. Außerdem wird jeder anerkannte Sachverständige diesen Teppich als einen echten Hereke verifizieren.
Zum Schluss:
Wenn Sie solche Dinge zu sehen bekommen:
Das ist eine Fälschung!
Das Hereke Siegel ist niemals auf diese Weise geknüpft. Ich werde hier nicht die forge the right way to explain, because the counterfeiters are also available online to read and figure out how to spoof the originals.
If you see such things:
This is a fake!
Neither dealers nor the producer would take a label with a genuine Hereke! Not only is the carpet, but its value is destroyed. Genuine Hereke silk rugs are long-term investment, like any art objects of a known artist. No serious art dealers would destroy a work of art in order to " "show that it was an original -. and a reputable dealer of genuine Hereke silk rugs would do just as little
I give you a wonderful holiday wish with many beautiful experiences - and please let it not true that your feelings is played.
