Hereke rugs and carpets for the Ottoman Emperior Palaces:
Although the past of carpets can be traced back to archaic times that is to the Turks who lived in Central Asia in the world, the knotted pile carpet and rug effuse with the rise of the Seljuk Turks of Anatolian in the 11. century. New techniques and motifs developed rapidly, producing a rich variety of carpets - rugs throughout the many Turkish carpet weaving lands. Apart from rugs peculiar to such regions as Usak and Kayseri, and those representing different epoch of Turkish history, there are still other types based on techniques and motif. These contain carpets bearing animal and emperior motifs, the Holbein-type rug (Turkish rugs which appear in the works of Flemish painters), and the Ottoman emperior carpets. Hereke carpets concern to the last category.