luxury and elegance - only by children? often read or hear I from our customers: "Is it true that so fine carpets can be created only by delicate hands of children? " This question shows
me a hand, the increased sensitivity to the subject, on one hand, the ignorance of the various techniques , a hand-knotted carpet.
Oriental rugs are generally available with the symmetrical Turkish Gördes tied (double) nodes or the asymmetrical Persian Senneh (single) node.
The symmetric double Turkish (Gordes) node is famous for its strength . Through him, get the carpets that have been linked with him, their legendary durability. 
The asymmetrically sized simple Persian (Senneh) node for the manufacture of a carpet time and material saving. However, the node thread is not as solid with the chain connected.
Djufti The node is ultimately a variant of the asymmetrical Persian knot, which is to make it even easier and faster. Here, the node is only two, sometimes even wrapped three or more warp threads.
Djufti This node is used by children, especially in India and Pakistan to make wool carpets with small knot densities of rarely more than 50,000 nodes / m (= 5 nodes / cm ²). These carpets are rarely more than two or three different colors made - and certainly not of silk, and certainly not entirely of silk. The density of Persian carpets, in a complicated process calculated.
No child in the world has the stamina, dexterity and calm, a real Hereke to make silk carpet, which has at least one knot density of 1,000,000 nodes / m² (= 100 nodes / cm ²) (!) - With up to 36 different colors! Not to mention, is child labor in Turkey against the law.
This work is so strenuous that none of the Turkish Knüpfmeisterinnen - and only the best can make a pure silk Hereke - more than 30 minutes can make a row. Then they must make a break to the high quality and perfection of weave and presentation of Pattern guaranteed. A good Knüpfmeisterin creates little more than 3,000 knots per day, depending on the number of colors and knot densities.
This work can not create a child. Who sets these stories in the world wants, consciously or unconsciously, the reputation of the carpet damage - and the reputation, high skill, perseverance and diligence of the Knüpfmeisterinnen. Copyright: Text: Solveigh Calderin (Cal) - Drawings: Dania Calderin
Hereke Silk Carpet - elegance, art and taste 
our early ancestors that lived in caves, have adorned their homes with skins und ihnen damit Wärme und Wohnlichkeit verliehen.
Als die Höhlen durch Zelte abgelöst wurden, begannen die Frauen aus den Fellhaaren Fäden zu zwirnen, um daraus Kleidung - und Teppiche zu fertigen. Die Teppiche hatten zunächst einen sehr praktischen Wert: Sie dämmten den Boden der Zelte, was ein Zelt sehr viel wärmer und behaglicher machte. Die Frauen begannen, Muster in die Teppiche zu weben und schon bald lagen die Teppiche nicht nur auf dem Boden, sondern sie bedeckten auch Truhen und Schlafstellen und hingen wie Bilder an den Zeltwänden.
Seit dem hat sich daran nicht viel geändert. Ein Teppich fehlt in keinem Heim. Auch heute dient er nicht nur der Wärmedämmung. A carpet is the icing on the cake in the design of the living room. He talks about the taste of the owner and his social status.
The technique of carpet making has changed little since our ancestors, but take the machines, the work of the Human for mass production .
precisely why the Handmade rugs are very special in a home. By a hand-made carpet from the owner expresses his individuality. Such a fine carpet is a real eye-catcher of the room - and the pride of its owner. It develops - much like a good piece of art - a silent Zwiesprache zwischen Teppich und Besitzer.
Der älteste Teppich, der von dem russischen Archäologen Rudenko fast vollständig erhalten an den Osthängen des Altai gefunden wurde, ist etwa 2.000 Jahre alt. Er ist geschmückt mit Darstellungen von Greifen, Hirschen und Pferden. Dieser Teppich wurde in genau der selben Technik geknüpft, wie auch heute noch die herrlichen türkischen Teppiche geknüpft werden. Diese werden mit dem symmetrischen türkischen Gördes oder Doppelknoten geknüpft, während die persischen Teppiche mit dem asymmetrischen oder Einfachen Knoten geknüpft werden. Durch den doppelten (symmetrischen) Knoten der türkischen Teppiche sind diese sehr viel haltbarer und robust than the Persian.
The summit of the carpet was in Hereke (near Istanbul) is reached, when the Ottoman rulers Abdülmecid I here in the middle of the 19th Century, with its royal factory set up in which the carpets were made exclusively for the Sultan's palace. Abdülmecid I wanted for his "biggest palace in the world" and the "finest carpets of the world". He succeeded completely. He brought together the best artists and Knüpfmeister his empire in order to create the carpets with the exclusive designs for the palace. Through the use of silk for the curtains for chain shot, and the nodes it is possible finest carpets with knot density of 1 million or more nodes to create per square meter (for comparison, a very good wool carpet has up about 450,000 nodes p r o square feet). Desirable collectibles have a higher knot density. Some carpets are of a density of 4 million nodes - and even in addition subject.
Until the present time, these finest carpets of the world Hereke entirely of natural silk and hand to the old patterns of Sultan Abdülmecid I., and contemporary, but also exclusively for the templates and desires of customers for the aesthetes, art lovers and collectors of this world established.
A fine collection this beautiful silk carpets, please visit our website for the famous Hereke silk carpets.
Copyright text and pictures: Solveigh Calderin (Cal)
The symmetric double Turkish (Gordes) node is famous for its strength . Through him, get the carpets that have been linked with him, their legendary durability. 
Djufti The node is ultimately a variant of the asymmetrical Persian knot, which is to make it even easier and faster. Here, the node is only two, sometimes even wrapped three or more warp threads. 
