Prayer Rug Symbols

Throughout the history of oriental rugs cultural and religious beliefs influenced the artistic motifs used in rug design.

Prayer rug symbols. Prayer rugs or otherwise known as prayer mats are manufactured by weavers in a factory. A finished handmade rug is one of the most valuable fortunes of a weaver which becomes a priceless inheritance from one generation to another. Two diamonds attached together represent a man and woman. Hand prayer rug.

Symbols and motifs of oriental rugs. Each rug is made as per the design either the village its being made in or important islamic landmark. Ewer jug purification. Do the symbols or motifs in persian rugs have any special meanings.

In islam it placed between the ground and the worshipper for cleanliness during the various positions of islamic prayer these involve prostration and sitting on the ground a muslim must perform wudu ablution before prayer and must pray in a clean place. The mihrab has a meaning as the divine gate a zone of transition from the earthly perishable world to the heavenly divine world. The weaver binds the material to the base or underlay of the rug using various knots. The geometric symbols used to decorate prayer rugs are also significant such as the crescent moon that signifies faith and the endless knot that represents wisdom and immortality.

Symbols and their meanings in the carpets and prayer rugs of the turkish armenian and persian traditions oriental carpets are more than attractive patterns and colors they are stories beliefs and prayers. Some include a lamp hanging from the arch of whose light symbolized the presence of allah. Patterns and designs for the rugs started before there was an alphabet. Diamond signifies women.

According to bosley iï t. A prayer rug or prayer mat is a piece of fabric sometimes a pile carpet used by muslims and some christians during prayer. For instance rugs can be used as tent curtain cradle sofa cloth wall carpet or prayer rug. Star spirituality good luck.

Prayer rugs made by nomadic trites or in small persian villages often have centers which are either plain and un decorated or are filled with small stylized no and stars or they may have a stylized tree áf life symbolic of the garden of paradise. Rugs and weaving played an important roll in the life of nomadic and herding peoples. Mihrab gateway to paradise. Of life represents eternal life.

Usually it takes months to complete a handmade rug. Numbers signify dates and times. Lamps for example recall the lamps of mosques and the comb and water pitcher are reminders that the muslim is required to wash his hands and comb his beard before prayer. This is the role that is assigned to the arch on the joynamaz prayer mat prayer rug too with the lower part of the carpet symbolising the earthly world while the upper part above the arch is the heavenly world.

Prayer rugs are often decorated with religious symbols that serve the worshiper as aids to memory.