Vintage Shirvan Kilim Rug, Handwoven Caucasian Old Carpet

This is a large Antique Verneh Kilim from the Caucasus region with a rare and beautiful color composition. Of the four countries that make up the Caucasus, Azerbaijan produces the...

This is a Southern Anatolian Antique Rashwan Kilim from the Malatya region with a rare and beautiful color composition. It is a large, 4 meters long Kilim with two halves attached...

This is Eastern Anatolian Antique Rashwan Design Kilim, from the Kayseri region with a rare and beautiful color composition. This highly collectible antique kilim has wonderful spec...

This is a Southern Anatolian Antique Kilim from the Malatya region with a rare and beautiful color composition. It was originally a kilim with two halves, but this is one half. Encountering such a piece is precious. Half of them are somewhere else in the world, or they are the survivors of Kilims who might otherwise have disappeared from this world due to special damage that is difficult to repair. Kilim is such an organic existence. That's why you can enjoy the encounter with your piece a once-in-a-lifetime chance. As you can see at a glance, each color is a very beautiful kilim. You can enjoy the goodness of ablush from the deep red to the bright color close to orange. Dark blue, orange, khaki, and white complement each other, making each color more vivid. What makes it unique is the beauty of khaki. Also, the dark brown on the border that tightens all the colors is a modest presence, but I think it's very beautiful to change the expression. Malatya is a town built on one main street that continues for several miles. It is situated in the Tohmasuyu River basin which is encircled by the high peaks of the eastern Taurus Mountains. This is a fertile agricultural region, particularly for apricots, and has been a prolific weaving area for many years. The modern town was established in 1838; old Malatya, which is close by, was once an important city in Armenia Minor. In Roman times it was important as a garrison town on the eastern frontier, and the settlement came under Ottoman rule in the early fifteenth century. Considering the number of kilims woven in this region there is a surprising lack of diversity in design, especially in the larger kilims; this is possibly a direct result of the Kurdish tribal tradition of weaving only one type of design. Small prayer rugs...

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...

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

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: 5'2" W x 11'2" L Origin: Caucasus Period: Late 19th Century