To explore traditional Islamic arts and fine crafts and to then create drawings/paintings utilizing Turkish inspired decorative patterns, symbols, and designs. This is a study of Turkish rugs, or carpets known as “Kilims”. Carpets have been a part of life in Turkey since around 7000b.c., when rug weaving first began with the nomads in eastern Turkey as a way to cover the ground in their tent as they moved around. “Rugs have been used the home as floor coverings, blankets, tablecloths and decorations. Students choose to draw Geometrical and Stylized motifs, or Naturalistic and Floral motifs. They can color with color pencil or markers. Using Sharpie marker to trace the pencil lines is optional. Kilim: Turkish flat woven carpet. “Kilim geometry consists of the expressive balance between color and form and evokes perfection and immortality”