Çınar Rugs’ 90th-year gala united collectors, scholars, artists, and civic leaders at Nuruosmaniye, where family speakers shared training, archives, and living-museum plans.
Çınar Sensperience Center paired Carel Richter’s canvas art and Ahmet Çınar’s silk rugs in a gala welcomed by Turkish Consul General Onur Şaylan.
One design reigns supreme from royal courts and palaces to the humblest village loom. Çınar Rugs presents a fresh interpretation with MYTHOS, one of the rarest carpet designs.
Art in Dubai: The union between Dr. Carel Richter, a Dutch painter based in Dubai, and Ahmet Çınar, Chairman of Çınar Rugs' Board. One invests passion in painting. The other devotes energy.
One carpet gleams brighter than the sky's parting light. The atelier names it Jester. Visitors anticipate something delightful when they hear the name. The curators calmly respond since silk presents accounts stirring tender emotions.
Queen’s Delight, a kimono silk carpet whose pattern mirrors the red sandstone gate of Fatehpur Sikri, Emperor Akbar’s desert capital of 1571.
My heart chose this profession. My continuation stemmed from passion. Each design still excites me. Every knot, every pattern... all contain our collective stories...
In a world where mechanization often overshadows tradition, Çınar Halı remains a guardian of Turkish carpet weaving, an art form with centuries of heritage.
Turkish carpets, born under nomadic skies on Anatolia’s plains, found renewal in the Ottoman period within the imperial nakkašhane. Ottoman artistry flourished in these ateliers, built near Topkapı Palace, where painters, illuminators, bookbinders, stone carvers, and textile masters congregated beneath the Sultan’s court’s watchful eye. Among them, Šah Kulu stood supreme, the leading hand behind...
Visitors enter Çınar Museum and seek the chamber where seas are knotted in translucent silk. A rug is hung on the wall. A frame encircles it, yet light pierces through. Silk, delicate as dawn mist, bears the name The Naval Battle of Chesma. Çınar weaves flame into the hush. No hand rivals such silk mastery....