The texture of the material beneath one's feet was sensual proof that this was home and not the wild. As for the history of the carpet, various fragments exist from the 5 6C AD, but it is only from the Seljuk period in Anatolia that many more pieces have survived. Marco Polo, during his journey through Seljuk lands towards the end of the 13C reported that the best and finest carpets were produced in Konya. Since a carpet is more of a work of art, the deeper meanings of each design cannot be neglected. Therefore, just like in a poem, each pattern of a carpet is chosen for its beauty and motifs are carefully arranged to form rhymes .
Turkish carpets carry a wide range of symbols.
For many centuries, Anatolian women have been expressing their wishes, fears, interests, fidelity and love through the artistic medium of carpets. Turkish carpets are made of silk, wool or cotton. A silk pile gives a carpet the great brilliance. Yarns have been used in their natural colors or colored with dyes extracted from flowers, roots and insects. Working from bottom to top, the carpet maker either weaves the rug with a flat surface or knots it for a pile texture.