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Rugs Runner |
Most of the Turkish rugs had been made with intention for religion purposes - they are prayer rugs. They are available in many different shapes and sizes. One kind of these rugs is a rugs runner. Such a rug is very long to allow several people be praing at the same time. Turks called that rugs runner Saf which translates into English as a line of several people.
As long as rugs runner was made for the religion purposes comon designs used in rugs runner were medallions, simple geometric forms and special symbols. The pictures of that rugs runner usually consisted of one big medallion (or even more than one medallion at once).
The medallions designs of rugs runner usually consist of great number different simple shapes (like squares, diamonds, stars or hexagons).
Rugs runners with continuous design are very rare and hard to find. These continuous design rugs runner can consist of rows of diamond-shaped objects, rows of squares or some hexagon forms.
Any of the small objects may in its turn be a container of even more smaller objects. Spider and dragon motifs are usually found on Caucasian or Anatolian rugs runner.
Rugs runner with any type of above said motif can be wonderful exapmle of the old Asian culture and bring a mysterious and spiritual mood in your home. runner rugs
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