The mountainous areas of West Asia are home to a fascinating, mostly peasant culture spanning a long history of wool and weaving. Refer my photo-article Timelessness - A Pictorial Journey  

West Asia includes the Anatolian Plateau, parts of Kurdistan in Turkey and Northern Iraq and Syria and the Balkans. 

Mostly these rugs are symetrically knotted of low knot count and have a lovely flexible, homely, comfortable feel. Some say they exhibit the best, most original Turkic Art of all rugs. Like the Anatolian Kelims here we often find a palette that tends to Tertiary rather than Primary hues.