5x13.5 Ft Rare Antique Turkish Flat-Weave Kilim Rug, Ca 1875

This beautiful and simple flat-woven runner is made of natural wool in shades of red, ivory, brown, orange and gray. We can modify the dimensions if requested, ie. make it shorter a...

Antique Caucasian Borchalo Kazak Prayer rug. Finely hand-knotted with even medium wool pile on wool foundation. Very good condition. Sturdy and as clean as a brand new rug (deep wa...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan rug, circa 1875. The rug has medium wool pile on wool foundation. It is in very good condition and professionally cleaned.

Antique South West Anatolian rug from Fethiye or Telmessos, as in the ancient times, which used to be named as Makri in 19th century. Wool pile on wool foundation. Very good conditio...

This elegant handwoven wool area rug was constructed in the late 20th century around 1980 in Turkey. The design features cream, brown, blue, orange and rust colours that make up the ...

Kilim, a word of Turkish origin, denotes a pileless textile of many uses produced by one of several flat-weaving techniques that have a common or closely related heritage and are practiced in the geographical area that includes parts of Turkey (Anatolia and Thrace), North Africa, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia and China. Kilims are generally woven with the slitweave technique. The slit refers to the gap left between two blocks of color. It is created by returning the weft around the last warp in a color area, and the weft of the adjacent color is later returned around the adjacent warp. The major difference between a kilim area rug and a carpet or a pile rug is that whereas the design visible on a pile rug is made by individual short strands of different color being knotted onto the warps and held together by pressing the wefts tightly, kilim designs are made by interweaving the variously colored wefts and warps, thus creating what is known as a flat-weave. Weavers pack the weft tightly to completely cover the warp and often favor diagonal patterns so as to avoid weakening the structure of the rug with vertical slits. It produces bold, sharp patterns that weavers enjoy creating with more freedom allowed than a plainweave. This is also why kilims are so closely associated with geometrical designs even though there are kilims with floral designs as well. This lovely antique Shirvan Caucasian Kilim...

Fine and Rare Antique Verheh Kilim Flat Weave Wool Rug 6’2” x 6’3”. A technique rather than a type of rug. Technique is: slit tapestry, warp shared wefting, single or double weft int...

Vintage Caucasian Kilim rug, country of origin: Caucasus, date circa mid-20th century. Size: 6 ft x 11 ft 9 in (1.83 m x 3.58 m).