Konya prayer rug fragment from central Anatolia. The key to a broad palette of vibrant colour in old rugs is the presence of a good lightfast yellow dye which, when added to the dyeing processes of the other primary colours, indigo blues or madder reds, produces a range of secondary and tertiary colours.
Konya prayer rug fragment from central Anatolia. The key to a broad palette of vibrant colour in old rugs is the presence of a good lightfast yellow dye which, when added to the dyeing processes of the other primary colours, indigo blues or madder reds, produces a range of secondary and tertiary colours.