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Special Purpose Rugs
The following rugs, which come in special sizes, have or at some point had specific purposes.
Prayer Rugs, Seccade (Turkish), Sejjadeh (Arabic), Ja-namaz (Persian):
These are one directional rectangular rugs of approximately 3.5 x 5.5 ft.
Prayer rugs historically have been woven for Muslims to pray on.
They still serve this purpose, and are also used as regular rugs.
The usual design of a prayer rug is a mihrab (the prayer niche constructed
in a mosque wall that indicates the direction of Mecca). Prayer rugs consist of symbolic objects such as columns, vases, lamps, combs, rosewater jugs, and the Hand of Fatima where the devotees place their hands when kneeling on the rug. Sometimes one, few or all of these objects are present in the rug.
Prayer rugs are further discussed under Anatolian style.
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Mianfarsh-Kellegi-Kenareh:
A special category of rugs is a four-piece set,
which their production came to an end about 60 years ago. These rugs were only made in Iran and were sold as sets.
A complete set can rarely be found now. Many Persian living rooms were covered with these traditional sets,
which included one main piece, Mianfarsh or middle carpet, of approximately 6 to 8 feet wide and 16 to 20 feet long. At the head of the room, a runner called Kellegi, was placed.
Kellegi measured between 4 to 6 feet wide with a length of about two to three times its width.
On each side of the middle rug, two very narrow and long runners, called Kenareh were placed.
Kenareh measured between 2.5 to 5 feet wide and anywhere between 5 to 40 feet long.
Food was placed on a cloth on the middle rug. The elderly and the host would sit on the headpiece,
and everyone else would sit on the two side rugs.
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Mianfarsh-Kellegi-Kenareh
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