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Bergama, Bergamo, Pergamum are all names for modern day Bergama a city near the Aegean sea in Northwest Turkey.

Bergama rugs traditionally have dyed wefts. usually red, and long silky pile. Size made are from mats up to about 4 meters. The rugs tend to be nearly square. Bergama rugs can be rather formal showing workshop influences or they can show strong tribal influences. The Yagcibedir tribe lives in the Bergama area and makes distinctive tribal rugs.

Bergama Rugs Turkish Rugs Bergama rugs traditionally have dyed wefts. usually red, and long silky pile.

Bergama Rugs Turkish Rugs Yagcibedir rug

Yagcibedir Rugs: Tribal Rugs from the Bergama area

A 19th C. Yüncü or Karacecili Bergama

19th Century Bergama Area Village Rug Nagel

Ghirlandaio Type

More than two wefts in old Bergama Rugs

This rug has two to three shots of light red weft. The back is flat and the wefts are sinuous. Bergama rugs are known for having a red weft, Hubel, Reinhard G. The Book of Carpets page 70.

Walter Hawley is not one of my favorite source on rugs but he does add some good points to the discussion of Bergama rugs. He described the knots as being tied with fine yarn. The wefts he describes as reddish brown of small diameter completely hiding the warps. In Bergama rugs from before 1770 he notes that you are likely to see variation in the number of wefts throughout the rug. Hawley, Walter A. Oriental Rugs Antique and Modern. pages 50 - 57.

The Allen Mid 18th C. Bergama Prayer Rug

Bergama which is a district of Izmir, is situated on the north side of the plateau which the Bakýrçay flows, on the ridge of a peak which is 300 meters height. It is 25-35 kilometers further than the Agean sea and The Çandarlý Bay. It’s today’s name com es from its ancient name ‘’Pergamon’’. It was an important center due to its wonderful monuments of the First Age, its strategic position of the Medival Age besides it was a center of a big Kingdom, Karesioðullarý and lastly Ottoman Empire. BERGAMA
A city in Northwest Turkey that has a long history of weaving dating back to at least the fifteenth century.

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