A Toussounian
Silk and Metal Thread Prayer Rug circa 1910
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Kum kapi, Kumkapi , or Koum
Kapi rugs are fine to extremly fine rugs from Turkey made in the style
of 16th century Persian rugs. The designs appear to come from rugs that
were at some point in the Ottomen Imperial Treasury. The were produced
from roughly 1900 onwards.
The rugs are are traced to Producers such as
Toussounian and weavers such as Hagop Kapoudjian and Zareh Penyamin.
The men behind the rugs were Turkish Armenans from Sivas and Kayseri.
It was once assumed that these rugs were woven in the the Koum Kapisis
(Gate of Sand) section of Istanbul. Now I suspect that these were woven
in a variety of places but collected and or sold in Istanbul.
The
most renowned producer of KumKapi rugs today is Avak Shirinian
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Pictorial Koum Kapi Rugs
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There are a number of rugs
that I decided to note that I still do not have coresponding images. I
still find them of value.
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The book that defines the conventional wisdom on
Kum Kapi rugs at this point is Hagop
Kapoudjian by George Farrow with Leonard Harrow. It
represents a shift in understanding from the understanding of even a
few years earlier. One key point is the understanding of the difference
between the weavers and the producers.
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Hagop
Kapoudjian 24 Rue Saint Lazare Paris 1932
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