Eğin Carpet
Our carpets and kilims have an important place in our cultural assets. Like all documents from our history, our knotted woven carpets or plain weft-faced woven rugs are important cultural documents in the evaluation of Turkish civilized geography, as they reflect the social, aesthetic and economic norms of the historical process they are woven. Especially as a cultural heritage of Turkish culture, our carpets and kilims have a special place in this identity. Egin (Kemaliye) and its surroundings are an important and old Turkmen settlement, which has embraced the settlement of very dense Turkmen groups since about the 12th century in its historical depth, and has a very rich cultural heritage in terms of Turkmen carpets, rugs and other handicrafts. . Egin plain and knotted woven carpets or kilims have a color and aesthetic weaving culture that meets the traditions of Turkmen groups coming to Egin via Khorasan and Turkmen groups coming to Egin via Caucasus. Indeed, some very special weaving pieces in the benevolence carpets and kilims we see in the Egin mosques reflect a very special pattern mix that combines both the main aesthetic characters of the Turkmen carpets of Khorasan and the Turkish weaving aesthetics of the Caucasus. In general, it is possible to examine the knotted woven carpets around Eğin under three main headings: 1. Traditional Turkmen patterned Village hand-made rugs woven in Eğin or the surrounding villages. 2. Commercial carpets with cotton warp, which were started to be woven in the region at the beginning of the 20th century. 3. Very precious Anatolian carpets found in Egin Historical mosques.
