Milas

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Milas
is the centre of a weaving area in Western Turkey near Bodrum.  It gives its name to all the carpets produced in the region.

Those made in the immediate area of Milas are different in style to those made in the South-west Peninsula, around the centre of Karaova.

There are four sub-types which constitute the Milas family; the prayer carpet with the lozenge shaped niche, the bright red medallion Milas, the antique Milas which is woven in shades of red-brown and yellow, and the Ada Milas which is quite restrained in design.  

The prayer rugs are the most important sub-type with their unusual shaped Mihrab, elongated, terminating in a lozenge, representing the immortality of the soul.  Carpets from no other regions have mihrabs in this shape.

The Milas motifs are highly stylized and a vivid imagination is needed to recognize in them a flower or a tree of life. The border is usually a wide band decorated by diamond shapes alternatively with highly stylized flowers. Beside this band is often a narrow border which is almost always in a pale color and decorated with rosettes or stars enclosed in octagons.