Pirot carpet

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Pirot Ćilim with the ornament Rašićeva ploča.

Pirot rug[a], Pirot carpet or Pirot ćilim (Serbian Cyrillic: Пиротски ћилим, romanized: Pirotski ćilim) refers to a variety of flat tapestry- woven rugs traditionally produced in Pirot, a town in southeastern Serbia. The Pirot kilim is often referred as one of the national symbols of Serbia.[1] While Pirot is the historic center for the production of this carpet style, the Pirot rug is part of a broader history of Balkan rug making, with Pirot style carpets traditionally found across the region, from modern-day Bosnia to Turkey. The Turkish name for the town of Pirot, Şarköy, has also given the name "sarkoy" or "sharkoy" to carpets of the same style produced in modern-day Turkey,[2] while the adjacent town of Chiprovtsi across the border in Bulgaria has become recognized as another important center for this same carpet tradition.

Pirot kilim making is the skill of making rugs on a vertical

Chiprovtsi carpets, the Pirot kilims are considered as part of a regional center of carpet weaving native to this mountain region of Eastern Serbia and Western Bulgaria.[4] An example of the patterns from the last periods is the Model of Rašič (Serbian Cyrillic: Рашичева шара, romanized: Rašičeva šara) which was based on ćilim brought by Serbian general Mihailo Rašič.[4]

Pirot kilims with some 122 ornaments and 96 different types have been protected by

Second World War, Pirot kilims have been frequently used as insignia of Serbian royalty. This tradition was revived in 2011 when Pirot kilims were reintroduced for state ceremonies in Serbia.[citation needed
]

Overview

Exhibition in Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade

Carpet weaving in Pirot dates back to the Middle Ages.

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Pirot was once the most important rug-making centre in the Balkans.[2] Pirot is located on the historical main highway which linked central Europe with Constantinople.[2] An interesting characteristic of some Pirot style carpets is the inscription of the Serbian or Bulgarian weaver and the year in which the carpet was weaved.[4]

Today many classical examples of Pirot kilims can be found throughout Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Turkey, and in many other international collections.[2] One of the chief qualities are the effects achieved through the choice and arrangement of colours.[2] In the beginning of the 19th century plant dyes were replaced by aniline colourings.[2]

"The best product of the country is the Pirot carpet, worth about ten shillings a square metre. The designs are extremely pretty, and the rugs, without being so heavy as the Persian, or so ragged and scant in the web and woof as Caramanian, wear for ever. The manufacture of these is almost entirely confined to Pirot,"[7]

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From Pirot's old Turkish signification as Şarköy stems the traditional trade name of the rugs as Şarköy-kilims. Stemming from the

Caribrod.[citation needed
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Cultural organizations

Pirot rugs (Bombe u pregradama and Rašičeva šara) seen in front of the king Alexander I of Yugoslavia and the queen Maria at the inauguration of the Monument of Gratitude to France in Belgrade (1930).
  • Association "Grlica"[10]
  • "Association of Preserving and Development of [the] Pirot Carpet", founded 1995
  • "Pirot Carpet Cooperative" or "Pirot Carpet Zadruga", founded 1902[11]
  • "Damsko srce"

Collections

Serbian
  • The Ethnographic Museum (Belgrade), has a small collection of carpets on display.
  • The Museum of Applied Art has a valuable collection of ca. 120 carpets from Pirot, dating to the late 18th to the mid-20th century.[2]
International

Ornaments

Pirot kilims with some 122 ornaments and 96 different types have been protected by geographical indication in 2002.

Gallery

  • Pirot rug Venci
    Pirot rug Venci
  • Scheme of a Pirot rug
    Scheme of a Pirot rug
  • Scheme of the Razbacani đulovi type
    Scheme of the Razbacani đulovi type
  • Scheme of the Bombe u pregradama type. Ornaments at the border are called kornjača (turtle).
    Scheme of the Bombe u pregradama type. Ornaments at the border are called kornjača (turtle).
  • bombe u pregradama
    bombe u pregradama
  • Bosanska šara
    Bosanska šara

Notable people

See also

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Annotations

  1. ^
    The Serbian name is Pirotski ćilim (Пиротски ћилим); in English "Pirot carpet", "Pirot kilim" and "Pirot rug"; in Turkish "Şarköy kilimleri". The carpet varieties are also referred to as "Thracian", "Serbian" or "Sarköy" rugs, in foreign literature.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Ministry of Culture and Information. "List of elements of intangible cultural heritage of the Republic of Serbia".
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Museum of Applied Art, Belgrade. "Textile collection (3/10)". Belgrade. Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2012-11-28.
  3. ^ Bratislava Idvorean Stefanovic. "Serbian Carpet Weaving in connection with Oriental kilim".
  4. ^ a b c Димитър Д. Велев (Dimitar D. Velev), Български килими до края на XIX век(Bulgarian rugs to the end of the 19th century) Sofia, 1960, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
  5. ^ Pirotski Ćilim - Lepota Trajanja
  6. ^ "Suveniri Srbije - Pirotski ćilim".
  7. ^ The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, Volume 67. J. W. Parker and Son. 1889. p. 725.
  8. ISBN 9780521522564
    . Retrieved 2015-06-24.
  9. ^ , 1953, Zbog toga pirotski cilim postaje svakim danom sve više skup. b) Na opadanje pirotske čilimarske proizvodnje i uopšte uloge i znaeaja pirotskog eilimarstva kao takvog utiče, najzad, i savremeni raz- vitak materijalne i tehničke kulture, ... {{citation}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ISBN 9788675870487
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  11. ^ The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 27. 1915. p. 432.
  12. ^ "British Museum, search query "Pirot"".

Sources

External links

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