Abstract :
This study examines the relationship between visual semiotics and the symbols on Anatolian rugs. The shortsge of research and investigation on Anatolian rugs by decoding symbols in a semiotic approach contributed to the developing of the paper. A culture is explainable by its body language, writing, painting and by the symbols on art crafts (Jean, 2010, s. 156). The main goal of this study is to figure out, how Anatolian culture particularly expressed their feelings and their ritual needs by using symbols on their rugs. The signification codes studied by Roland Barthes are defined under five topics; hermeneutic (presentation of enigma), the semiotic code (connotative meaning), the symbolic code, the proairetic code (the logic of actions), and the cultural code which comes from historical knowledge (The European Graduate School, 2015). The analysis of social messages hidden behind the images will be investigated by using Roland Barthes’s denotation, connotation and myth process. Barthes wrote that “the viewer of the image receives at one and the same time the perceptual message and the cultural message” (Barthes, 19641977, p. 36). To make this paper more perceptible, the history of semiology, visual communication, cultural studies are also investigated. Thereby, this paper, the brief history of hand woven rugs, symbols meanings and cultural life of Anatolia is investigated.
