The star of Pascagoula. [volume] (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1873-1878, 1877-09-21
TURKISH CARPETS.
How aud where They nre Made-An In.
teresting Description.

Three small towns--Oushak, Koula,
and Ghiordess, within the boundaries OF
Greater Phrygia, in Asia Minor, have
preserved to the present day the carpet
manufacture, one of the few remaining
branches of Turkish manufacture and
it is rather an interesting point to note
that this manufacture has not much
changed its locality from time i'm
memorial.
Oushak, the largest of the three towns
above mentioned, is situated on an ele-
waited plateau, between two n three
thousand feet above the level of the sea.
1t has a population of over fifteen thou
sand inhabitants, of which only about a
third are Christians. The houses are
built of sun-bried bricks in the usual
style of modern Turkish towns, and plas-
tered over inside and out with sort ofdark
clay, which gives the place a somber
appearance perfectly in keeping with the
character of its people. Quaint old foup-
tains and wells, mosques and minarets,
overhanging latticed balconies, and dark
narrow, crooked and dirty streets charac-
terize the place even more than other
towns nearer the %seaboard. Wool in
every stage of progression, from the mo-
ment it is clipped from the sheep TO It's
final dyed and spun state, hit for the
hands of the manufacturer, meets the
eye in every direction, and indicates the
peculiar occupation OF the inhabitants OF
this busy little town, which, but for this
industry. would in all probability have
shared the decaylng tendency OF other
Anatolian towns.
Almost every household of any i'm
p~ortance carries on the carpet manufac-
tire, The mechanism employed is of
the simnlest and rudest description. A
vertical frame supports two horizontal
rollers abont FIVE feet apart. The warp,
of any required length, consisting OF an
upper and lower thread is wound round
the upper roller, and the ends fastened
to tho Iowar one from which the work is
commenced by the women and girls, who
kneel or sit c~ross-legged in a row before
the frame. Each woman has a certain
w;dtb NJ work allotted to her. and pro-
ooodo IN Lnot the TN ts which form the
niIo in rowa using different colors to
form a nettern Each tuft is knotted
u%donendentIv of the other to an
nnnar and lower thread of the warp.
Wben a row il Tins tied the tuft is passed
witb tho hand between the warp, and
tben beaten down with a heavy wooden
onmh Tha n;le ia now clipped smooth
Nth q ior1e hair If shears, and the next
VOW oboye The first commenced with.
.a +ho mort nroceeds inward if is rolled
as omor .1 tIo mnSor %roIIer and a correspond.
2 i've o Il hl, 90 w ,o rnrolIed from the
, npna 10 n1o until the reonired length of
uPPoI ?n In Tbo tring of the tufts
q 10 inau ~ - iba v)or;onslv COL
anu Vne Pnoh hh;seh bona in halls over the
Saeu "Gols VII W. on Nth the most sur.
lrame, is uSfiieu 1 tho nattarn being near.
plising iaPiulvy VIC u,pmorv unless some
whl'e Morheu i.on - Id four
new ues!gh Is W p1 Luot+aJ IN tbe
ol Plle aie o ~ for tb;s amount
courSe Vi In1 uay, l. 10 noid from
iaoor eaoh "oi Jn,In II will Tins
W Vwei.e oon n"on.on arc the sole man.
seen Vha. Vne VIM. monban;Sm or instrn.
Una 10 nie'n nhanrn and nomb
mehts Geyohu a iiat 4Lo dns;rn IL worked
are "Seu, anu 'n "a Il ~ gnob Em;tad
rom mennoiy' teU, ",In +hoSe stillGI
means aI vneii u.aPosa tbo most
WORKERS con. aoIorad auJ certainlv the
arIio nous on,nats in tho world,
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