Vintage Kurdestan Cicim Runner, Hand-Woven Wool, Mid-20th Century

Small oriental carpet of old manufacture, with a dense hand-loom workmanship similar to an elaborate design. It's a nomadic product, with magnif...

nr. 440 - One of the most famous Turkish kilims, coming from the ancient Caesarea of the Romans. Predominantly female workmanship, very accurate : but now (they say) no longer easily...

Vintage gallery from the town of Sivas, in Central Anatolia (founded by Ittiti, but famous under Roman domination with the name of Sebastea). This item is entirely in wool (warp, plo...

Small runner made from a nomadic saddlebag, only unstitched on the sides, but intact in its workmanship, colors and beauty. It's perfect: everywhere, above all : on wall. ref. nr. ...

This is an antique Kurdish Herki runner rug from the Eastern Anatolia and Northern Iraqi region with a rare and beautiful color composition. Iraqi Kurds ...

This rare antique and unusual Verneh Kurdish brocaded cover is firmly attributed to a Kurdish exclave located in the Qarabagh area, in the southern Caucasus. This is based on the ext...

Nice vintage Caucasian Kilim with a beautiful geometrical and tribal design and nice colours with a purple and pink Blue, green, brown, orange and white entirely hand woven with wool...

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...