Antique Caucasian Shirvan Banded Kilim of Large Size, Late 19th Century

Antique Shahsavan or South Caucasian kilim of outstanding soft colour and traditional banded design Circa 1900 A very good example of type, with a banded design and large hooked med...

A superb Kilim of classic Kuba region design. The kilim has bands of embroidered work running across it. Very well drawn with excellent colour. Excellent condition with slight eve...

Antique Turkish Malatya kilim with excellent traditional design and colour. This kilim was woven in two parts on a narrow loom and then sewn together, this is why the design and colo...

Size: 11ft 2in x 5ft 5in (340 x 165cm). Antique Persian tribal Qashqai kilim, South West Persia. Circa 1890. A really outstanding Qashqai kilim with very bold diamond lattice des...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan Kilim Rug, Late 19th Century This Caucasian Shirvan kilim combines a fine weave with diverse colors incorporating no fewer than three reds and blues each, ...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan Kilim Rug 5'5 x 9'10. This is a Shirvan Kilim long rug with a pattern of wide navy horizontal rows of stepped hexagons enclosing smaller, similar hooked devices. Instead of wide and somewhat narrower bands alternating, the latter have shrunk to thinner ivory lines with stepped crosses as ornaments. Terra cotta, ivory, medium blue, yellow-tan and brown-lack are among the salient tones of this slit tapestry carpet with a generally more restrained palette. At the ends of the broad sections are amusing geometric fillers. The general tonality extends to the dark grey-brown barber pole warps. In their country of origin, these kilims had multiple functions: floor coverings, room dividers, wall decorations, cart covers, indeed any place where a durable, colorful larger scale textile...

Antique Shirvan Kilim Rug, Late 19th Century Additional Information: Dimensions: 7'9" L x 4'7" W Origin: Caucasus Period: Late 19th Century Rug ID: 15220

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...