Carpeting
Carpet, which is a patterned or unpatterned mat with a pile structure woven on the loom with loops thrown on the weft-warp texture from colored wool, silk and other yarns, is one of the oldest hand-woven arts of humanity. The history of carpet weaving has a long history in Niğde, which is a part of the Cappadocia Region, in the middle of Anatolia, where cultures are mixed and kneaded. The motifs on the local carpets, almost all of which are woven by women, symbolize issues such as fertility, luck, health, death, sin, resurrection, evil eye and eternity. The most commonly used patterns in regional carpets are eye, star, tree of life, scorpion, amulet, river, burdock, bird, ram horn. In addition, swastika carpets, which are called wedges in the region and are a motif from the Greeks who lived in the region before, also attract the attention of visitors.
