Runner Area Rugs
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 runner area rugs. Such a rug is very long to allow several people be praing at the same time. Turks called that runner area rugs Saf which translates into English as a line of several people.
As long as runner area rugs was made for the religion purposes comon designs used in runner area rugs were medallions, simple geometric forms and special symbols. The pictures of that runner area rugs usually consisted of one big medallion (or even more than one medallion at once).
The medallions designs of runner area rugs usually consist of great number different simple shapes (like squares, diamonds, stars or hexagons).
Runner area rugss with continuous design are very rare and hard to find. These continuous design runner area rugs 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 runner area rugs.
Runner area rugs 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.