Yahyalı Carpet

Yahyalı carpets are one of the most famous
hand made carpets produced in Turkey. Our
carpets are known in all of Turkey and especially
in Europe and are sold. Even though
the carpet business is one of the most important
elements of the district’s economy, the
continuation of economic crises, increase in
the raw materials, labor costs and machine
made carpets and expensiveness of hand
made carpets have led to a fast decrease in
the production.
Therefore the number of carpet workbenches,
which used to be one in every house, has
decreased %75.Yahyalı carpets are known
for their %100 wool composition, the
natural color (provided by purpurin), the
number of stitch density and models. A lot
of materials such as mud, grapevine leaves,
nutshell, walnut leaves, cehri (a kind of purpurin)
and other natural materials are used
to color the ropes of the carpet.
Yahyalı carpets have a special increasing
quality as used and worn out. It is a value
that is not beaten by the inflation. The
square meter price of Yahyalı carpet changes
according to the number of stitch density
and smoothness of the weaving. The carpets
have an easy use when displaying. There
are models in different sizes such as divan
(lounge), seccade (prayer rug), yolluk (runner;
rug used to carpet a hall or staircase),
mihraplı, göbekli and dabazlı (names for
other sizes).
In the district, carpets can be bought from
the bazaars on Fridays and some shops selling
carpets or even from houses. It is possible
to see and buy Yahyalı carpets from
shops especially in cities like Istanbul, Ankara,
İzmir, Antalya and touristic places
such as Cappadocia.