Bessarabian carpets of excellent quality and antiques and other valuables!!!

Hi, I own the Bessarabian carpets of excellent quality, i want to sell,  I only know that they are not expensive copy. It is orignal made ​​by the hands of our ancestors!!!

 You can buy a rug from me and sell to someone else and make money on it!!!

 I'm from Ukraine. I have my small business, to sell carpets, made ​​of wool (handmade 100% natural wool) new, and more that 50 years, various posted (new condition used a couple of times at weddings, as decor) If interested, please contact me.         

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 I sell all of their carpets are very good quality and much cheaper than my Colleges . Just me it is easier to find an antique rug, traditional clothing, antiques and other valuables. 

 

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 I live in the west of Ukraine. (Bukovina  Bessarabia )   
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Antique Bessarabian & Ukrainian Rugs and Carpets

The Bessarabian nomenclature relates to a group of nineteenth century carpets and flatweaves or kilims made in the mountainous Carpathian region between the Ukraine and Moldova. Although little is known about the circumstances or workshops where these rugs and flatweaves were fashioned, the output shows a synthesis of local folk motifs and designs inspired by eighteenth century French carpets popular at the Russian Court and in aristocratic circles. Both metropolitan and provincial antique Bessarabian kilims are distinguished from Western European urban weavings by less formal designs that manage to achieve an elegant balance between noble and poor, grace and force, making these unique flatweaves among the most sought after of decorative antique rugs and carpets.

                                                   a little history

                                               

Bessarabian rugs are from the region of Bessarabia on the Western shore of the Black Sea that has been a part of both Romania and the Ukraine-depending on the political situation. The designs are often floral with elegantly drawn motifs and colors in earth tones. The style shows both French and Oriental influences. Bessarabian rugs rugs are almost always flat woven; the rare Bessarabian rug with pile is very valuable. Bessarabian rugs are not as formal as, for example, Savonnerie or Aubusson rugs. Antique Bessarabian rugs in pile and tapestry technique occupy a unique place among European carpets. Produced during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries under late Ottoman Turkish rule in an area corresponding to modern Bulgaria and Romania, they stand right on the cusp of European and Oriental carpet weaving. Many of the designs are floral patterns made in a naturalistic western style utilizing brown or black ground, not unlike certain Karabaghs from the Caucasus. But others, particularly flatweaves, reflect the tradition of Turkish kilims from nearby Anatolia, although in a distinctive Bessarabian palette. In either case they are supremely decorative pieces.
 Bessarabian carpets are flat-woven rugs  which are handmade in the tapestry weave. The very finest Bessarabain rugs these were made in the Imperial Tapestry Factory which had been set up by the Russian emperor Peter the Great after his travels to England and France. The Bessarabian carpets made in the Imperial Tapesrty Factory near St. Petersburg, Russia were lose copies of French Aubusson and Savonnerie carpets as these styles were very fashionable at the Russian court. Later on Bessarabian carpets were also made in workshops established on the estates or in villages controlled by the aristocracy and landed gentry. The name Bessarabian derives from a historical region called Bessarabia, part of which is now the present day Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and the rest is a part of Romania.

 The fabric they produce is primarily intended for the personal use of the entire family and only in extreme financial need is it sold outside the home. Incidentally, with the increasing shortage of land that has afflicted the local population in the last decade and the need for money to pay a variety of taxes, in many regions of Bessarabia spinning and weaving have begun to change from a domestic production to a kustar' one, that makes goods for sale in nearby bazaars. But even here the craft is inseparable from domestic production, since the work for sale is merely a continuation of the weaving done to meet the needs of the family.'

"Given such conditions of kustar' production in the region it is not surprising that women's work prevailed at the exhibition. Indeed, there were carpets and 'kadril' woollen materials, fabrics of raw-silk mixed with cotton, 'naframs' and 'chadry', hand-towels, table-cloths and bed-linens, linen, belts, Bulgarian dark-red and white cloth, woollen 'bysagy' and other goods made by village women. Evidently, all these domestic goods suited the tastes of the Bessarabian population, which still retained its national habits and customs.

"The account of this exhibition and a trip to the wilds of the province permit me to sketch out, albeit briefly, the activities of the local female population.

"Peasant carpets are all smooth, genuine 'kilims'. The materials mostly used for carpet goods are the wool of local sheep, the 'tsushek' breed in the north and central part of Bessarabia, and the 'tsygai' breed in the south, and hemp. Woollen and hemp yarn is spun by the weavers themselves. Previously carpets were made of pure wool, but more recently a hemp yarn has been used for the warp, since it is more resistant to moth-damage. The weavers also dye the yarn, using analine and sometimes vegetable dyes. For example, to dye yarn black they use walnut husk.

"The patterns used are exceptionally varied, and have absolutely no resemblance to the designs on carpets I have seen in other areas of Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. The Bessarabian patterns take the form of distinctive geometric and fantastical ornaments. Of the latter type particularly striking are designs that resemble a tree adorned with flowers. We can surmise that the frequent repetition of this design in a number of variations represents the great branch adorned with all manner of flowers, fruits, and fabric scraps which is a part of Moldavian burial rites. Moreover, carpet designs include many stylized flowers which are called in Moldavian 'trandifir', i.e. a rose, or mallow. The background of most Moldavian carpets is black, although colored grounds are also sometimes used. They also make striped carpets. Carpets are therefore indispensable to the life of a Bessarabian, both as a necessity and a luxury in his daily existence.

 

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Torn between the influences of the Ottoman Empire to the south and Russian and Slavic countries to the north, this flat-woven kilim from the Bessarabian region of Eastern Europe features a double floral medallion inspired by English crewelwork and the tapestry designs of Western Europe while the vibrant colors and red-on-black color scheme is completely Romanian. The unique border with cropped floral patterns gives the composition. Bessarabian rug a contemporary feeling.