Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Styles and Periods Facet
3. Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)
4. [styles, periods, and cultures by region]
5. Islamic World, The
6. [Islamic World dynastic styles and periods]
7. [Anatolian Islamic styles and periods after Manzikert]
8. Anatolian Islamic styles after Manzikert
9. Anatolian Islamic textile styles after Manzikert

Anotations

Scope note:

Style of textiles, particularly floor coverings and prayer rugs, made in or associated with Mudjar, a village near Kirsehir in central Turkey. The rugs are characterizsed by usually having a deep border, an arch motif, and similar to desings of medieval stained-glass windows of European churches. The characteristic design in older examples, from the 19th century, is a prayer niche with a stepped arch crowned by a little turret form that is echoed in the crenellations of a narrow cross panel above. The niche is soft red, pale yellow, or green and may contain a skeleton tree or be perfectly plain except for an edging of small triangular indentations. The green spandrels (spaces between the exterior curves of the arch and the enclosing right angle) display stylized ewers. The broad stripe of the border is composed of varicoloured, carefully detailed squares, reminiscent of tilework, and the soft-blue inner stripe has a diamond pattern.