Ladik is a town
located north of Konya in the hearth of Anatolia. The main sources of
income in this area are animal husbandary, agrigalture and carpet
production. Konya and Ladik are the oldest carpet making centers in Turkey.
Even during the 15th. center the art of carpet weaving florished in Konya
becouse it was the capital of the Seljuk Empire and a very important
cominication and political center. There are many notible at works an
konya and perhaps the most famous in the Green Mosque.
Ladik Wool Carpet
From Arabia, Iran
and other countries many artists came to Konya to practice their crafts.
The surviving carpets of this era offer ample evidence of the Turkish
character. During this same period carpet weaving skils pread from Konya
to other parts of Anatolia. The colours in Ladik carpets are very vivid
and vell matched. After Kula carpets, Ladik carpets, with their 250,000
knots per square meter, are considered just as fine.
