U?ak carpets, Ushak carpets or Oushak Carpets () are Turkish carpets that use a particular family of designs, called by convention after the city of U?ak, Turkey – one of the larger towns in Western Anatolia, which was a major center of rug production from the early days of the Ottoman Empire, into the early 20th century (although these patterns were woven in other regions also).King & Sylvester, 70 and 73