Antique Caucasian Avar Kilim circa 1900

This rug is a flat woven kilm made in Shirvan area of caucasus region. Flat woven rugs are hand-loomed textiles with a flat surface-without pile-w...

A beautiful caucasian Kazak this rug is decorated with seven solar Gul medallions with various shades of colors among them red, yellow, blue, light and dark green, apricot, lilac light...

This rug is hand woven in the Shirvan district of Caucasus mountains region. The tiny very rare Shirvan is a fine example of the very best weaving of the shirvan region. The intricat...

A spectacular antique caucasian carpet decorated with an unusual twenty- point Lesghi star. The rug features boldly contrasted colors of indigo blue for the field and three wide bord...

Antique Caucasian Shirvan Kilim Rug, 19th Century Additional Information: Dimensions: 5'10" x 11'1" Origin: Caucasus Period: 19th Century (4th Quarter) Rug ID: 13519

79022 Antique Caucasian Kazak Rug, 05'00 x 10'07. This hand-knotted wool antique Caucasian Kazak rug is a captivating window into the artistic soul of the Caucasus region. Its mesmer...

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...

The Tekke are a nomadic group from central Asia north western Afghanistan and constantly at war in struggle for water and grazing for their herds. The rug is showing a far greater d...