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THE SECRETS OF ORIENTAL DESIGNS-PART TWO-

AT THIS POINT YOU ARE MORE FAMILIAR WITH DESIGNS BEING TRANSBORDER MEANING  BEYOND BORDERS WILL ENABLE US TO DECIPHER THEIR GLOBAL CONNECTIONS.

THE FIRST AND THE SECOND PICTURES THAT I CHOSE HAVE A COMMON DENOMINATOR WHICH IS ''TUBA''.AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP OF  WESTERN ARIZONA THERE IS A CITY CALLED TUBA CITY WHERE THE NAVAJO INDIAN AMERICANS LIVE AS A COMMUNITY.IN THEIR LANGUAGE TUBA TRANSLATES AS ''TANGLED WATERS'' AND PROBABLY REFERS TO THE MANY SPRINGS BELOW THE SURFACE OF THE GROUND WHICH ARE THE SOURCE OF SEVERAL RESERVOIRS.

HOWEVER THE SAME WORD ''TUBA'' WITH THE EXACT SPELLING IN TURKISH IS A GIRLS NAME AND IS ALSO MENTIONED IN THE QUR'AN CHAPTER 13/ AR-RA'D(THUNDER) VERSE 29 AS ''TUBA LEHUM'' MEANING ''HAPPINESS IS THEIRS'' SO LITERALLY IT MEANS HAPPINESS.

THEN THE SECOND PICTURE BELONGS TO AN ANTIQUE MUCUR CARPET WITH THE'' TUBA DESIGN'' WHICH IS THE UPSIDE DOWN TREE AS LOCALLY CALLED.PEOPLE ARE MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE TREE OF LIFE DESIGN WHICH WILL BE THE NEXT TWO PICTURES BUT THE BRANCHES OF THE TREE OF LIFE; PLEASE MAKE A NOTE OF IT; ARE UPWARDS WHILE THE BRANCHES OF THE TUBA TREE ARE DOWNWARDS AND THAT IS WHY THEY REFER TO IT AS THE UPSIDE DOWN TREE.

NOW LET US CONCENTRATE ON PICTURES THREE AND FOUR AND NOTICE THE COMMON DENOMINATOR TO BE THE ''FORMAT'' OF THE TREE OF LIFE DESIGN.TURKISH PURE SILK KAYSERİ (ANCIENT CAESERIA) IN THE MIDDLE OF ANATOLIA(ASIA MINOR PART OF TÜRKİYE) IS CONTINENTS AWAY FROM TUBA CITY WITH ITS INTERPRETATION OF THE SAME DESIGN.THEREFORE IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND THIS RESEMBLANCE PLEASE REFER BACK TO PART ONE OF THE DESIGNS AND FOLLOW THE ROUTE DR. SPENCER WELLS TOOK IN HIS ''JOURNEY OF MAN'' BOOK AND MOVIE(PICTURE 7).

IF WE APPLY THE SAME ANALOGY TO PICTURES FIVE AND SIX WE CAN SEE THE NAVAJO VERSION OF CROSS DESIGN REMINDING US THE TURKISH ''DÖŞEMEALTI CROSS DESIGN'' WHICH IS PRODUCED IN THE VICINITY OF TAURUS MOUNTAINS THAT IS  ONLY MILES AWAY FROM THE TURKISH MEDITERANEAN RIVIERA OF ANTALYA(ANCIENT ATTELIA).

I HOPE BY NOW WE ARE MORE ON THE SAME PAGE.WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A COMMON HERITAGE OF MANKIND REFLECTED ON THEIR WORKS OF ART.THE MEXICAN AND TURKISH TEXTILES TODAY SHARE THE SAME HERITAGE WITH COMMON DESIGNS.

LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST OF THESE PICTURES WILL BE NUMBER NINE AND THAT IS A WINE RED COLOR FIELD WHICH IS THICKLY PLANTED WITH THREE ROWS OF FLOWERING TREES INCLUDING SIX BLUE-GREEN CYPRESSES WITH INDIVIDUAL PALMETTES AND ORIGINALLY WAS PRODUCED BY THE TURCOMANS IN TABRIZ(IRAN TODAY) WITH THE TURKISH GHIORDES DOUBLE KNOTTING TECHNIQUE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

I PROVIDED  THIS INFORMATION FOR YOU  FROM TWO SEPERATE MUSEUM CATALOGUES.PICTURE EIGHT SHOWS YOU HIS EXCELLENCY SHEIKH FAISAL BIN QASSIM AL-THANI MUSEUM LOCATED IN DOHA,QATAR AND PICTURE TEN SHOWS YOU THE PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART IN PHILADELPHIA,PENN.,USA.THIS RED TREE CARPET AS IT IS LOCALLY CALLED IS SO FAMOUS THAT ICI HALI HAS CLONED IT AND IF YOU REFER TO OUR SECTION ''TURKISH CARPETS'' AND CHECK OUR INVENTORY YOU CAN FIND IT UNDER INVENTORY NUMBER 80002.

I AM CONFIDENT THAT MY STUDENTS IN THE FUTURE WILL FIND OTHER RESEMBLANCES BETWEEN OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE AND CARRY MY INTERPRETATIONS BEYOND BORDERS TO THE FUTURE GENERATIONS AS CHILDREN OF ADAM AND EVE AS MORE EVIDENCE ARISES IN TIME.