Kirsehir

Style of textiles, particularly handwoven floor coverings, usually in a prayer design and made in Kırşehir, a town between Ankara and Kayseri in central Turkey. The typical Kirsehir prayer rug of the 19th century has an elaborately stepped arch above a prayer-niche design, often fringed with tiny carnations in profile and with a smaller, concentric niche similarly outlined but having a contrasting color. The color scheme mya include rich cherry red, yellow, violet, light blue, prominent greens, terra-cotta, and black-brown. Some of the later rugs show influence of the French Empire style, and the palette was altered by the use of harsher aniline dyes.