{"title":"Cicim Kilims","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA cicim is an Anatolian flatweave in which extra colored wefts are laid over a plain woven ground as the weaving proceeds, so that the motifs sit slightly proud of the surface and read like needlework. The ground weave holds the fabric together; the cicim yarn carries nothing but the pattern.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEveryday Turkish calls almost any pileless weaving a kilim. The workshop does not, and the difference is structural rather than decorative. This page sets out what the cicim technique actually does at the loom, how it differs from plain kilim, from zili and from sumak, which parts of Anatolia weave it, and what the twenty-seven pieces in this collection are.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat cicim is, at the loom\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a supplementary weft technique, which means the pattern yarn is structurally optional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStart with the ground. The warps are strung on the loom under tension; a plain weft goes over and under them, row after row, and that fabric would hold together perfectly well on its own. Cicim adds a second, thicker, differently colored yarn that travels across the same shed but does not do the fabric's work. It floats over two warps and drops behind the next, or over three and behind the next, and it is those float lengths — two-span and three-span cicim, in the weaver's own terms — that set how dense and how fine the resulting motif is. Every few rows the whole surface is beaten down with the \u003cem\u003ekirkit\u003c\/em\u003e, the heavy toothed comb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo consequences follow. The motif stands above the ground, so the fabric is not flat and the two faces are not the same. And the motif is not bound by the slit that governs classic kilim drawing, so cicim figures can be smaller, denser and less rigidly stepped than the ones a slit-weave kilim can hold. A complicated piece is sometimes worked by two weavers rather than one, with the second sitting behind the loom to arrange the pattern yarns while the first follows the drawing on the face.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCicim, kilim, zili and sumak\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour pileless techniques, one loom, one comb, and four different routes for the patterning yarn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003cth\u003eTechnique\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eHow the pattern is made\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eSurface\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eTraditionally used for\u003c\/th\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eKilim\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eThe colored wefts themselves interlace with the warps and turn back at each color change, leaving a slit\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eFlat; both faces identical\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eFloor spreads, wall panels, prayer kilims\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCicim\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eExtra yarns are laid over a plain ground weave as it proceeds, floating over two or three warps\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eMotifs stand slightly raised on a visible ground, like embroidery\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCovers, cushions, small spreads, dowry pieces\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eZili\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003ePattern yarns float across the entire surface in a regular two-over-one or three-over-one step\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eRibbed and linear over the whole field\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eSpreads, cushions, storage sacks\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eSumak\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003ePattern yarns are wrapped around the warps instead of passed between them\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eDense, braided, chain-like and very hard-wearing\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eSaddlebags, grain sacks, spreads\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe short version: a kilim is woven, a cicim is laid on, a zili floats and a sumak is wrapped. Village weavers combine two or three of them in a single piece as a matter of course, which is why a fair number of the flatweaves in the wider \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/kilim-rugs\"\u003ehandwoven kilim\u003c\/a\u003e range carry cicim bands across an otherwise slit-woven field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhere cicim is woven\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross most of Anatolia, with the strongest traditions in the south and the west.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGaziantep, Siirt, Silifke, Kırşehir, Karaman and Sivas are the districts most often named for cicim work, and the pieces here bear that out while widening it. The collection includes weavings from Mut and Karapınar on the Konya plain, from Konya itself, from Balıkesir and its villages at Selendi, Helvacı and Kozak, from Çanakkale, and from Burdur, Fethiye, Antalya and Çal in the southwest. Regional habit is real but modest: the Antep pieces run to bright color and hard geometry, the southeastern ones to denser and more crowded motifs, the central Anatolian ones to earth tones. A weaver in one valley draws the ram's horn slightly differently from the woman two valleys over, and that is most of what regional attribution amounts to.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe motif vocabulary itself is shared with the rest of Turkish flat weaving — the hands-on-hips \u003cem\u003eelibelinde\u003c\/em\u003e, the ram's horn, the eye, the hook, the tree of life, birds and deer, and a set of figures whose received meanings were assembled by twentieth-century collectors rather than recorded from weavers. That whole question is worked through in \u003ca href=\"\/en\/blogs\/news\/kilim-motifs-and-meanings\"\u003ekilim motifs and their meanings\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat cicim was made for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMostly not the floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the raised motif is the point, cicim was woven for things that were seen close up and handled: covers for a chest or a bed, cushion faces, small spreads, curtain panels for the wall of a room, and the two-pocket saddlebag called a \u003cem\u003eheybe\u003c\/em\u003e that hung over an animal or a shoulder. This collection contains one such heybe, at 50 × 133 cm (1'8\" × 4'4\"). Many pieces were dowry weaving — made by a young woman for her own household, folded into a chest, used a few times and folded away again. The Turkish trade calls those \u003cem\u003esandık eskisi\u003c\/em\u003e, chest-aged, and the phrase describes the condition exactly: soft at the folds, unworn in the middle, the colors still where they started because nothing bleached them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsed on the floor today, a cicim behaves like any flatweave — thin, light, reversible enough to turn, easy to lift and shake out — with the one caveat that a raised float can catch. It belongs beside a bed, under a coffee table, in a hall, layered over boards or over a larger rug, or on a wall, which is where the technique reads best.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat is in this collection\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty-seven pieces, all handwoven in wool, and every one of them is a single item rather than a size that can be reordered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey run from 48 × 97 cm (1'7\" × 3'2\"), a small mat, up to 206 × 312 cm (6'9\" × 10'3\"), with a group of long narrow weavings around 160 × 300 cm (5'3\" × 9'10\") that work as runners. Most are older village weavings rather than new production, several are recorded with madder and other natural dyes, and a number carry the abrash that follows when a weaver moves from one dye lot to the next mid-piece. On the house's age convention — antique is 100 years or more, semi-antique 50 to 100, vintage 20 to 80, and the rest new — these sit mainly in the vintage and semi-antique bands. Those are trade terms in ordinary commercial use, with no issuing authority behind them and no certificate attached.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat to look at before buying one\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurn it over. On a genuine cicim the pattern yarn is visible on the back as loose floats and loops crossing the ground weave, which is the plainest evidence that the motif was laid on rather than woven in. Then check four things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe floats.\u003c\/strong\u003e Short, even floats sit tight and wear well; long ones snag. Run a hand across the face and feel where the pattern stands up.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe selvedges and the ends.\u003c\/strong\u003e A firm, evenly wrapped side edge and a properly finished end are the difference between a piece that will lie flat for decades and one that will unravel from a corner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe color.\u003c\/strong\u003e Fold a tuft back on itself. Madder red and indigo blue shift gradually along the fiber and vary between dye lots; a flat, identical color from tip to root is a chemical dye, which is a different thing rather than a fault.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOld repairs.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chest-aged pieces often carry them, usually at the ends. A neat reweave in matching wool is fine; a glued or machine-stitched patch is not.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCleaning is hand work. Vacuum gently and without a beater bar, in the direction of the floats rather than against them, blot spills rather than rubbing them, and send anything more than that to a washer who handles handwoven wool flatweaves. Dry flat and out of direct sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFrequently asked questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a cicim rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA cicim is an Anatolian flatweave in which extra colored wefts are laid over a plain woven ground while the weaving proceeds, so the motifs sit slightly raised on the surface and look embroidered. The ground weave holds the fabric together and the cicim yarn carries only the pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is the difference between a cicim and a kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a kilim the pattern is made by the structural wefts themselves, so the fabric is flat and both faces look the same. In a cicim the pattern is made by extra yarns laid over a ground weave that is already complete, so the motifs stand proud and the back shows loose floats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow is cicim different from zili and sumak?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll three lay a pattern yarn over a ground weave. Cicim floats it over two or three warps in discrete motifs, zili floats it across the whole surface in a regular repeat to give a ribbed field, and sumak wraps it around each warp to give a dense braided face used for saddlebags and sacks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere are cicim kilims woven?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross Anatolia, most often in Gaziantep, Siirt, Silifke, Kırşehir, Karaman and Sivas. The pieces in this collection come from Mut, Karapınar and Konya on the central plain, from Balıkesir, Selendi, Helvacı, Kozak and Çanakkale in the west, and from Burdur, Fethiye, Antalya and Çal in the southwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCan a cicim be used on the floor?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYes, and it always was in part. A cicim is thin, light and easy to lift, which suits a bedside, a hall, a layer over boards or a spot under a table. The raised floats can catch, so it is not the right choice for a doorway or a chair that is pushed back and forth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow do I clean a cicim kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVacuum gently with the beater bar off, moving in the direction of the floats rather than against them, and blot spills instead of rubbing them. Anything beyond that goes to a washer who handles handwoven wool flatweaves by hand. Dry the piece flat and out of direct sun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow can I tell a handwoven cicim from a machine-made one?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLook at the back. A handwoven cicim shows the pattern yarn as loose floats and loops crossing a visible ground weave, with small irregularities in the drawing and in the color between dye lots. A machine-made imitation has a uniform backing and repeats its motifs identically down the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What is a cicim rug?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"A cicim is an Anatolian flatweave in which extra colored wefts are laid over a plain woven ground while the weaving proceeds, so the motifs sit slightly raised on the surface and look embroidered. 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That is cicim, and this is a cicim kilim: handwoven in wool in Türkiye, 180 × 285 cm (5'11\" × 9'4\"), multicolored, drawing on the Kazak family of Anatolian motifs, and old enough that the house files it with its rare stock. A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKazak motifs are the large, blocky, high-contrast forms of the eastern Anatolian and Caucasian border — big stepped medallions, hooked latch shapes, wide bands — and they suit cicim because cicim rewards a bold outline. Where a plain kilim builds its pattern from the ground wefts alone, cicim lays additional colored threads over and around the warps as the weaving advances, so the motif is added rather than substituted. A palm laid flat on it finds the difference at once — the ground is smooth and the pattern is not. Light catches those raised threads at an angle and gives the drawing a shadow that a flat kilim cannot produce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe piece is described in Turkish as \u003cem\u003esandık eskisi\u003c\/em\u003e — chest-old. Anatolian households kept textiles in a dowry chest and brought them out for occasions, which is the single reason wool weavings from that period survive at all, and it explains a piece that has age without the wear age normally brings. All wool, no pile, no knots. The raised cicim threads are the part that will show wear first, since they stand where a foot lands, so a low-traffic floor suits it better than a hallway. Cleaning is a specialist job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does cicim add to a kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCicim lays supplementary colored threads over the ground weave as the work proceeds, so motifs are built on top of the surface instead of being formed by the ground wefts. The pattern sits slightly raised, and it catches light and casts a small shadow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye in wool, worked in the cicim technique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKazak-family motifs: large stepped forms, hooks and broad bands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e180 × 285 cm (5'11\" × 9'4\"), a little over five square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe pattern stands proud of the ground and is legible by touch.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSandık eskisi\u003c\/em\u003e — kept in a dowry chest, which is why it has age without hard wear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe raised threads take wear first; a quiet floor suits it better than a corridor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist cleaning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs are looked at, and cicim is one of the few weavings that also asks to be touched.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What does cicim add to a kilim?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Cicim lays supplementary colored threads over the ground weave as the work proceeds, so motifs are built on top of the surface instead of being formed by the ground wefts. 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Woven in Türkiye, one piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlack is an unusual ground for an Anatolian flatweave and it changes what every other color does: red goes hotter against it, yellow stops looking pale, and the green begins to read almost as a third warm color. The bands advance up the kilim in sequence, four colors taking their turn, so the eye travels along it instead of settling in a middle. Inside the bands is the old geometric alphabet of village weaving — hooks, diamonds, running borders — each drawn small and repeated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven entirely in wool on Turkish looms, with no pile whatsoever. The pattern is the weft itself, beaten down over the warp until the warp disappears. That is what a flatweave is, and it is why a kilim weighs a fraction of a knotted rug covering the same floor and can be picked up and shaken out. Thinness is the trade: underfoot it is firm rather than soft, and on a polished floor it will slide without a pad beneath it. Professional washing keeps the black from going gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven flatweave in wool, made in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlack ground carrying horizontal bands in red, orange, yellow and green.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGeometric Anatolian motifs drawn small and repeated along each band.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo pile at all: thin, light, and easy to lift and shake out.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e120 × 180 cm (3'11\" × 5'11\") — an entryway, a study, or the foot of a bed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm underfoot rather than cushioned, and it wants a pad on a smooth floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHung on a wall it does the same job it does on a floor, and the black keeps it from competing with anything else in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Black \/ 120 X 180","offer_id":44269877919977,"sku":"HALPAT000036.01","price":16500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliSiyahKilim_2.jpg?v=1704635223"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-cicim-desenli-rengarenk-yun-kilim","title":"Cicim Handwoven Wool Village Kilim, Anatolian Pattern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWool and only wool — warp, weft and the brocading threads on top of them. A village cicim kilim handwoven in Türkiye, 159 × 255 cm (5'3\" × 8'4\"), multicolored, worked in Anatolian motifs, and old enough to sit in the house's rare stock. One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWorking a single fiber through every part of a weaving is a village decision rather than a workshop one. It means the whole piece expands and contracts together with the seasons instead of the warp pulling against a different material, and it means the object ages evenly. What it costs is dimensional discipline: this kilim will never measure exactly the same twice, and the number on the label is a fair average rather than a guarantee. Anyone ordering furniture to fit it should measure the piece in front of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe motifs are laid in with supplementary threads over the ground weave — the cicim method — so the drawing has a small physical height to it, and on a wool ground that raised thread takes and returns light differently from the flat surface around it. On four square meters that gives the surface a quiet movement that no photograph carries. Where a foot lands repeatedly the brocading flattens before the ground does, so keep it out of the main line of traffic. Send it to a kilim washer once and then leave it alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye in a village workshop, wool in warp, weft and brocading alike.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim: motifs laid over the flatweave with supplementary threads, standing slightly proud.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e159 × 255 cm (5'3\" × 8'4\"), close to four square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAll-wool construction moves as one; the measurements shift slightly with humidity.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnatolian motif families in several dyes at once.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBrocading flattens under repeated footfall before the ground does.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a kilim washer, and rarely.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA single fiber throughout is the oldest way to build a textile, and it remains the only one that ages at a single rate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 159 X 255","offer_id":44283206172905,"sku":"MZTKIL000032.01","price":73000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluCicimDesenliRengarenkYunKilim_1.jpg?v=1705998250"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-pamuk-kilim-1","title":"Orange Cicim Handwoven Wool Kilim, Anatolian Motifs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn orange-leaning ground, and Anatolian motifs brocaded across it in the cicim method: this is a handwoven kilim in wool and cotton, 183 × 315 cm (6'0\" × 10'4\"), old, from Türkiye, and singular. At close to six square meters it is a full room-sized flatweave, which is unusual for a piece worked this way.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCicim is slow. Every motif thread is laid in by hand as the ground advances, so the technique is normally kept for small pieces, cushion faces and runners where the labor is contained. Carrying it across six square meters means the weaver did the slow thing at scale, and the drawing accordingly does not repeat in the mechanical way a large kilim often does — it accumulates. The orange in the ground is not a single dye laid flat either; it is the temperature the whole field settles at, warm enough to pull a room toward it and broken often enough by the brocaded colors that it never becomes one loud plane.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool over a cotton warp. The cotton is what makes this size possible at all: a six-square-meter all-wool flatweave will not hold a true rectangle under its own weight, and the cotton takes the tension so the piece stays square. The brocading gives the surface a low relief, which means it collects a little more dust in the motif areas than a plain kilim would, and a plain suction head will take that out without dragging at the raised threads. Keep the beater bar away from it. Washing goes to a specialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye — cicim brocading in wool over a cotton warp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e183 × 315 cm (6'0\" × 10'4\"), close to six square meters and room-sized.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn orange-leaning ground with Anatolian motifs laid over it in relief.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim at this scale is rare; the labor is normally reserved for small pieces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe cotton warp is what keeps a flatweave this large square.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDust settles in the raised motif areas; use plain suction, never a beater bar.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn older piece from the house's rare stock.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing. One piece only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSix square meters of hand brocading is a decision somebody made once, and nobody in that village is likely to make it again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 183 X 315","offer_id":44287541936361,"sku":"HALKLH000009.01","price":83000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkPamukKilim_2.jpg?v=1705497057"},{"product_id":"rengarenk-el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-kilim","title":"Multicolor Cicim Handwoven Wool Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA hundred and sixty-one wide by three hundred and thirteen long, which is a proportion close to two to one: a multicolored cicim kilim handwoven in Türkiye in wool over cotton, 161 × 313 cm (5'3\" × 10'3\"), brocaded in Anatolian motifs, and kept in a chest for most of its life. One of one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat ratio is the useful thing here. Two to one is the shape of a dining floor with chairs pulled back, of a bed with a walking strip on both sides, of a long sitting room where the seating faces across rather than along. Most modern rugs are made at three to two because that suits a square room, and a piece at this proportion solves a room the standard sizes cannot. The multicolored surface — several dyes at once, none of them subordinate — means it does not need a color scheme built around it; it brings its own and everything else in the room can stay quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe construction is wool brocading and wool ground over cotton warps. Cicim motifs are added to the surface as the weaving goes, so they sit a millimeter or two above the field, and on an old piece that height is the first thing to have been rubbed down in the places where people walked. Look at the raised threads to read the history of the floor it was on. Cleaning belongs to someone who washes kilims; ordinary rug shampoo will lift the brocading before it lifts the dirt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye: cicim brocading and wool ground over a cotton warp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e161 × 313 cm (5'3\" × 10'3\"), a proportion close to two to one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSuits a dining floor, a bed with walking room on both sides, or a long sitting room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSeveral dyes at full strength rather than one field with accents.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe brocaded motifs stand a millimeter or two above the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWear on the raised threads records where the piece was walked on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKilim-specialist cleaning only; shampoo lifts the brocading first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-kept, older, and a single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eProportion is the thing people notice last about a rug and regret first, and this one is shaped for a room the standard sizes ignore.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 161 X 313","offer_id":44287560253673,"sku":"HALKLH000005.01","price":72000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/RengarenkElDokumaAnadoluDesenliKilim_2.jpg?v=1705496668"},{"product_id":"rengarenk-etnik-tasarim-anadolu-desenli-yun-el-dokuma-kilim-12","title":"Multicolor Anatolian Handwoven Karapınar Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKarapınar sits on the Konya plain in central Anatolia, and cicim is the technique its weavers use: a flatweave in which extra colored wefts are wrapped around the warps as the work goes, so the motifs stand slightly proud of the ground. This one is handwoven in wool, multicolored, Anatolian in its drawing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cicim is neither a pile rug nor a plain kilim. The ground is woven flat, and the pattern is built into it during weaving with supplementary threads, which is why the figures have a raised, almost embroidered look and why the back of the piece is nearly as legible as the front. Colors run bright and deliberately unmatched, the way village work has always been drawn, with beige carrying the quieter passages. The pattern was worked from memory rather than from a cartoon, so no two pieces repeat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese are older Anatolian weavings rather than new production, gathered one at a time, and the house files them among its rare pieces. Wool throughout, no pile to crush, light enough to lift and turn over. A flatweave has one real weakness worth knowing about: there is nothing to absorb a spill, so whatever goes on it goes straight through to the floor beneath. Professional washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool, in Karapınar on the Konya plain.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim: a flatweave with supplementary wefts, so the motifs sit proud of the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnatolian drawing, worked from memory, so each piece differs from the next.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat and near-reversible, with no pile to flatten.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn older weaving, filed by the house among its rare pieces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNothing absorbs a spill on a flatweave — it passes through to the floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat makes a cicim different from an ordinary kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA plain kilim is woven with the pattern formed by the weft alone and lies flat on both faces. A cicim adds extra colored threads that wrap around the warps as the weaving proceeds, so the motifs are built on top of the ground and stand up from it slightly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What makes a cicim different from an ordinary kilim?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"A plain kilim is woven with the pattern formed by the weft alone and lies flat on both faces. 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This is one: handwoven wool, 156 × 258 cm (5'1\" × 8'6\"), multicolored, built as a sequence of stripes with Anatolian motifs worked into them. A single old piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBanded construction is the oldest logic in flatweaving, because it follows what a loom actually does. A weaver working without a cartoon advances upward in horizontal courses, and a band structure lets each course be decided as it arrives — a wider stripe here because the wool was there, a narrower one after it, a row of motifs in between when the composition wanted breaking. The result is a piece that reads as rhythm rather than as a picture, and one that never repeats itself exactly from bottom to top. Look at where the bands change width and you are looking at the weaver's working days.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool from end to end, flat-woven, no pile and no knots. A striped kilim has an advantage most rugs do not: it has no orientation. Nothing points, nothing centers, so it can be laid either way round and turned end for end every year to spread the wear, which for a piece this age is the single most useful thing you can do for it. It also hangs well, since the bands read as horizontals on a wall. Cleaning should go to someone who handles old flatweaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in the Çanakkale region of northwestern Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBanded construction: stripes of varying width with Anatolian motifs worked between.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e156 × 258 cm (5'1\" × 8'6\"), about four square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo orientation — it can be laid either way and reversed end for end each year.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe band widths were decided at the loom, so nothing repeats exactly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat and pileless; it hangs as readily as it lies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning by someone experienced with old flatweaves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn older single piece from the house's rare stock.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA banded kilim is a record of the order in which it was made, read from the bottom up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 156 X 258","offer_id":44290391998697,"sku":"MZTKIL000034.01","price":58000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkCanakkaleKilim_1.jpg?v=1705998335"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-cicim-desenli-rengarenk-kilim","title":"Multicolor Anatolian Handwoven Wool Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 206 × 312 cm (6'9\" × 10'3\") this is a whole salon floor in one handwoven wool cicim kilim, multicolored, made in Türkiye and kept folded away rather than walked on. Cicim is a flatweave with extra threads laid in above the ground weave, so the motifs stand slightly raised and catch a shadow along their edges.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pattern runs in bands across the width, and the color is listed simply as rengarenk — multicolored — because there is no dominant tone to name. Reds, greens and creams alternate in blocks that were never reconciled into a scheme, which is usually what happens when the yarn to hand decides the palette rather than a drawing. The raised motifs sit inside those bands and take light from the side, so the kilim looks different from the two ends of the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, wool throughout, and stored rather than used — in Turkish that is a sandık eskisi, literally chest-old: woven, put into the dowry chest, and taken out decades later with the colors still where the weaver left them. The trade-off is real and worth stating. A kilim that was never underfoot has none of the softening that use gives; this one is firm and a little stiff, and it will take a season of walking before it lies quite flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven by hand in Anatolia, in wool, using cicim.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSupplementary pattern threads laid over a flat ground; no pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBanded multicolored composition — red, green and cream, none of them leading.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-kept rather than floor-used, which is why the colors are undimmed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e206 × 312 cm (6'9\" × 10'3\"): the largest piece in this group, sized for a full living room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm and flat; it wants a pad under it on a hard floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning by a kilim washer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece, with no second like it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA kilim this size was somebody's whole winter at the loom, and it has spent every year since waiting for a floor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 206 X 312","offer_id":44400987767017,"sku":"MZTKIL000054.01","price":115000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluCicimDesenliRengarenkKilim_1.jpg?v=1705998726"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-cicim-desenli-turuncu-kilim","title":"Orange Anatolian Handwoven Wool Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis handwoven wool cicim kilim is orange before it is anything else: a multicolored Anatolian flatweave, 160 × 280 cm (5'3\" × 9'2\"), woven in Türkiye and stored in a chest rather than walked on. Cicim means the motifs were worked with supplementary yarn as the ground went down, so they stand a little above the flat surface.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrange is the color the store records first for this piece, and it is the one deciding how the kilim behaves in a room: warm under lamplight, noticeably redder in late afternoon sun, quiet by day. The Anatolian motif vocabulary underneath it — hooks, lozenges, stepped rows — is drawn by the raised threads rather than by a change of ground color, which is why the design is legible from directly above and half-disappears when you look across it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven by hand in Türkiye, wool throughout, ground and pattern threads alike. Sandık eskisi is the label the piece carries: it was made, folded into a chest, and left there, which is why nothing has faded and also why nothing has softened. If you want a kilim that already drapes over a step or lies dead flat on the first day, this is not that kilim. Cleaning is a job for a specialist washer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye; wool ground, wool pattern threads.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim technique — pattern yarn added above the weave, not knotted through it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrange dominant, with green and cream in the motif rows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnatolian geometry: hooks, lozenges and stepped repeats.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e160 × 280 cm (5'3\" × 9'2\") — a sofa front, or a dining table where the chairs need clearance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-stored rather than used; unfaded, and stiff to begin with.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKilim washing by a specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrange is the hardest color to live with and the easiest to love, and the floor is the safest place in a room to put it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Orange \/ 160 X 280","offer_id":44401033314537,"sku":"MZTKIL000053.01","price":85000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluCicimDesenliTuruncuKilim_1.jpg?v=1705998684"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-sandik-eskisi-anadolu-desenli-burdur-cicim-kilim","title":"Orange Cicim Handwoven Wool Kilim, Burdur","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was folded in a chest for decades and barely walked on. A handwoven wool kilim from Burdur in southwestern Anatolia, worked in the cicim technique, 114 × 161 cm (3'9\" × 5'3\"), in orange, green and red. Cicim is flatweaving with extra threads laid in over the ground, so the motifs sit slightly proud of the surface.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrange leads and the green and red answer it, giving the piece an energy older kilims usually have had washed out of them. The motifs follow the traditional Burdur drawing, raised above the flat ground by the cicim threads so their edges catch light and throw a small shadow. None of the colors has gone soft with age, because this kilim spent its whole life away from the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven entirely in wool, by hand, in the Burdur district. In Turkish a piece kept like this is called sandık eskisi, chest-old: made, put away, and taken out again looking close to new. There is no wear to point at, and the trade-off runs the opposite way to the usual one, since what it lacks is the softening that use gives a kilim. It is thin and firm. Send it to a professional rather than washing it at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Burdur, southwestern Anatolia, in wool throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim technique: supplementary threads laid over the flatweave so motifs stand slightly raised.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrange, green and red, none of them faded.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKept folded in a chest instead of used, which is why the colors held.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e114 × 161 cm (3'9\" × 5'3\") — an entryway, a kitchen, or beside a desk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThin, firm and light; it wants a pad on a polished floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe colors are the ones the weaver chose rather than the ones fifty years of sun would have left, and that is unusual enough to be the reason to own it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 114 X 161","offer_id":44401357619433,"sku":"MZTKIL000048.01","price":23000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaRengarenkAnadoluCicimDesenliBurdurKilim_1.jpg?v=1705998603"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-cicim-desenli-rengarenk-burdur-kilim","title":"Multicolor Burdur Handwoven Wool Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe name Burdur on a cicim is not loose description — the district holds a registered geographical indication for its kilims, so the word is legally tied to the place. This handwoven wool cicim kilim measures 196 × 354 cm (6'5\" × 11'7\"), is multicolored, is forty to fifty years old, and spent nearly all of that time folded in a chest.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat comes out of a chest after half a century looks wrong at first, because it looks new. The reds have not gone to rose, the greens have not gone gray, and the cicim motifs still stand off the ground the way they did on the loom. Burdur drawing is dense and small in scale; the raised threads carry it in rows and the ground barely shows between them. The age is in the record and in the wool, not on the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in the Burdur district, in wool, by weavers working the cicim technique — a plain ground with the motif laid over it in an added yarn. The geographical indication is an intellectual-property registration rather than a quality grade: it governs where a piece may be woven to carry the name, and says nothing about any individual kilim. What is unusual here is not the age, which is common enough in chest-kept weaving, but the size. Send it to a professional washer and leave it at that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy does a fifty-year-old kilim look new?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause it was never used. In Anatolian households a woven piece often went into the dowry chest and stayed there, out of sunlight and off the floor, so neither light nor feet ever reached it. The wool ages, the dyes do not fade, and the piece arrives with its original colors intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in the Burdur district of southwestern Türkiye, in wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim: motif threads added above a plain flat ground, so the drawing stands proud.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurdur kilims hold a registered geographical indication tying the name to the district.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eForty to fifty years old: vintage in trade usage, which has no issuing body behind it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored and unfaded, having been stored instead of walked on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e196 × 354 cm (6'5\" × 11'7\"): long and wide enough for a whole seating group.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a specialist in old flatweaves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe next fifty years are the ones it was actually woven for, and they start whenever it comes out of the wrapping.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why does a fifty-year-old kilim look new?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Because it was never used. 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Cicim work means the design was built up as the weaving went, thread laid over thread, with no pile anywhere on the surface.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA green ground changes what the other colors do. The piece is filed as rengarenk, multicolored, with green in charge, and the tones sitting on that green behave differently than they would on cream: warm ones go darker and more serious, pale ones read almost as light rather than as color. Helvacı drawing is close-packed and geometric, and the raised threads give each motif a thin shadow down one side, which is what keeps a busy field from turning into noise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, with wool and cotton both recorded in the yarn. The two do different jobs in a flatweave — cotton holds a straight line and does not stretch, wool carries color and gives under the foot — and a weaver mixing them is choosing, motif by motif, which quality matters more at that point in the drawing. The kilim is a chest piece and has not been walked on, so it is firm and unyielding for now. A specialist wash is what it wants, not a bathtub.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye in the Helvacı manner, worked as cicim.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool and cotton together: cotton for line, wool for color and give.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGreen ground with multicolored motif rows raised above it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat throughout — no pile, and a reverse that reads as a second version of the front.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e156 × 206 cm (5'1\" × 6'9\") — a small sitting room, or the end of a bedroom floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-stored; unfaded, and stiff until it has been down a while.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaned by a flatweave specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSingle piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreen is the color a room forgives fastest, which is why a green kilim outlasts the taste that bought it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Green \/ 156 X 206","offer_id":44689912791273,"sku":"MZTKIL000045.01","price":75000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluCicimDesenliYesilHelvaciKilim_1.jpg?v=1705998513"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-yun-anadolu-cicim-desenli-rengarenk-kilim","title":"Black Anatolian Handwoven Wool Cicim Kilim Runner","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNinety-six centimeters wide and two and a half meters long — 96 × 250 cm (3'2\" × 8'2\") — this is a corridor proportion, and nothing about it was accidental. A handwoven wool cicim kilim on a black ground, made in Türkiye, chest-stored, with the pattern raised above the weave in supplementary yarn.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA runner is read in motion and never all at once, and that changes what a weaver puts on it: repeats rather than a center, and a rhythm you meet a section at a time as you walk the length. On a black ground the raised motifs pick up light from whichever end the window is on, so the same run of pattern looks brighter walking one way than the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool throughout, handwoven in Türkiye, worked in cicim — an added weft that travels only where the pattern goes, which is why the reverse of the piece reads differently from the front. It is a chest piece, unused, and it has the stiffness that goes with that. The fold memory will take a few weeks under furniture to come out. Professional washing, and nothing at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool throughout, handwoven in Türkiye and worked as cicim.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBlack ground with raised Anatolian motifs in supplementary yarn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e96 × 250 cm (3'2\" × 8'2\") — a hallway, a kitchen galley, or the side of a bed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRunner composition: repeats rather than a central medallion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat, with the reverse reading as a second version of the design.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-stored and unfaded; it needs time under weight to lie flat.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashed by a specialist, infrequently.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one, at a length nothing else in the room will match.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCorridors are where rugs wear out fastest, and a flatweave is the construction least bothered by it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Black \/ 96 X 250","offer_id":47359938724073,"sku":"MZTKIL000060.01","price":35000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaYunAnadoluCicimDesenliRengarenkKilim_1.jpg?v=1705999178"},{"product_id":"i̇kinci-el-anadolu-desenli-el-dokuma-rengarenk-cicim-kilim","title":"Multicolor Secondhand Handwoven Wool Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe store lists this one as secondhand, which is the honest word for a kilim that has already had a life on somebody's floor. A handwoven wool cicim kilim, 167 × 238 cm (5'6\" × 7'10\"), multicolored, made in Türkiye, with Anatolian motifs raised above a flat ground in supplementary yarn.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUse is not damage, and it is not always a discount. A kilim that has been walked on has had the loom stiffness taken out of it, lies flat without persuading, and has lost the faint sheen new wool carries — which most people find easier to live with. The colors have come down a step from where they started, and the multicolored field is quieter for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool throughout, handwoven in Türkiye. The motifs stand above the ground weave because a second yarn was carried over the surface as the piece was made; those added threads are also the first thing to wear where feet pass most, which means a used cicim carries a record of where people walked. Have it washed professionally before it goes down, and it will need that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye in wool, cicim technique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePreviously owned and used, which the house states rather than hides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored Anatolian motifs raised above a plain flat ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAlready broken in: it lies flat, and the new-wool sheen is gone.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e167 × 238 cm (5'6\" × 7'10\"): a study, a landing, or the middle of a sitting room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRaised motif threads wear first, so wear shows in the pattern before the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing before use, by a professional.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody else did the hard part, which is the ten years it takes a kilim to stop looking like it came off a loom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 167 X 238","offer_id":44650761879785,"sku":"MZTİKİ000010.01","price":57000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/IkinciElAnadoluDesenliElDokumaRengarenkCicimKilim_1.jpg?v=1705997644"},{"product_id":"anadolu-cicim-desenli-el-dokuma-kilim-5","title":"Multicolor Selendi Handwoven Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA multicolored field of raised Anatolian motifs on a handwoven Selendi cicim kilim, 118 × 170 cm (3'10\" × 5'7\"), worked in cotton and wool in Türkiye and kept folded in a chest. Cicim belongs to the family of Anatolian flatweaves that decorate by addition — the ground is plain and the motif is put on top of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelendi weaving is small in scale and busy, with motifs repeated close together rather than arranged around a center, so at this size the whole field reads as one texture from standing height and separates into individual figures only when you crouch. That is a property of the drawing rather than of the room. Multicolored is the accurate description: no tone was appointed to lead, and each motif row was worked in whatever the weaver had.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye with both wool and cotton in the yarn. In a mixed flatweave the cotton usually goes into the warp, where it holds a straighter line and does not stretch, while the wool goes wherever color is wanted. This kilim has never been used, so the surface is exactly as it came off the loom and the piece has yet to relax. Take it to a washer who handles old flatweaves and let them choose the method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, in the Selendi manner, worked as cicim.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool and cotton: cotton for a stable warp, wool for the color.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClose-repeated multicolored motifs, raised above the ground weave.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e118 × 170 cm (3'10\" × 5'7\") — a study, a hall, or one side of a bed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReads as texture at standing height and as separate figures up close.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-kept: full color, and no give in it yet.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a specialist in flatweaves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece; the other Selendi in this group is a different shape entirely.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall kilims get moved around a house for years before they find the spot they stay in, and that is not a failing of the kilim.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 118 X 170","offer_id":44596088406249,"sku":"MZTKIL000064.01","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluCicimDesenliEtnikTasarimliRengarenkKilim_1.jpg?v=1705999322"},{"product_id":"anadolu-cicim-desenli-el-dokuma-kilim-6","title":"Multicolor Square Selendi Handwoven Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e142 × 166 cm (4'8\" × 5'5\") is very nearly a square, and a square is the shape almost no rug is, which makes this Selendi cicim kilim useful in the rooms that defeat a rectangle. Handwoven in wool and cotton in Türkiye, multicolored, with the motifs raised above a plain ground, and stored in a chest rather than used.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA near-square field changes how the pattern is met. There is no long axis to walk down and no short end to look at, so the eye goes to the middle first and then outward, and a close-repeated Anatolian drawing suits that better than a bordered composition would. The multicolored rows read equally in every direction, which is exactly what a square shape needs from its pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye. Wool and cotton both appear in the yarn record, and the motifs were laid over the ground with an added weft while the weaving went on — no needle was involved, though the raised drawing invites the comparison. Weaving close to square is unusual, because a loom is set up for a width and then run to whatever length is wanted; stopping at 166 cm was a decision, not a limit. Professional washing, and no home method.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye in wool and cotton, worked as cicim.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e142 × 166 cm (4'8\" × 5'5\") — near-square, for a landing, a square hall or under a round table.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRaised multicolored motifs on a plain flat ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eClose repeats with no border, so the drawing reads equally from any side.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA square is a shape a loom stops at deliberately, not one it produces by default.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-kept, unfaded and firm.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaned professionally.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe only one of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRound tables sit badly on rectangles, and this is the shape that problem has been waiting for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 142 X 166","offer_id":44596169703657,"sku":"MZTKIL000065.01","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluCicimDesenliRengarenkPamukKilim_1.jpg?v=1706004555"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-cicim-desenli-rengarenk-etnik-kilim","title":"Multicolor Balıkesir Selendi Handwoven Wool Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo place names sit on this kilim: Balıkesir, the northwestern province it was woven in, and Selendi, the manner it follows. A handwoven wool flatweave, 192 × 246 cm (6'4\" × 8'1\"), multicolored, worked in cicim so the motifs stand above the ground, and kept in a chest rather than walked on.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe colors have the saturation only a stored piece keeps. Reds are still reds and not the pinks fifty years of window light would have made of them, and the cream between the motif rows has not gone to the yellow that fades into old wool. Because the drawing is raised rather than woven flat into the ground, every figure has a thin line of shadow along one edge, and that shadow separates one color from the next as much as the colors do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMade by hand, in wool, in Türkiye. Selendi is regional shorthand for a particular density and motif set rather than for a single design, and a piece can carry the manner without having been made in the town itself — this one carries a manner and a province, which is more information than most old kilims arrive with. It has never been used and it shows: firm, square-edged, entirely unrelaxed. Have it washed professionally before it takes any weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in Balıkesir province, northwestern Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSelendi manner — a regional density and motif set rather than one fixed design.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim construction: raised motifs on a plain flat ground, each with a shadow edge.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored and unfaded, having been stored out of the light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e192 × 246 cm (6'4\" × 8'1\") — a sitting room, or a dining table with room to push chairs back.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm and unrelaxed; it takes time under furniture to settle.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing before use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt arrives at the beginning of its working life rather than the end of it, which is the opposite of what an old kilim usually offers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 192 X 246","offer_id":44596289863913,"sku":"MZTKIL000068.01","price":65000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluCicimDesenliRengarenkEtnikKilim_1.jpg?v=1706007875"},{"product_id":"rengarenk-cicim-desenli-el-dokuma-yun-anadolu-kilim","title":"Burgundy Balıkesir Handwoven Wool Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWool, and only wool, spun and woven in a Balıkesir village: a handwoven cicim kilim, 158 × 234 cm (5'2\" × 7'8\"), burgundy-red, with Anatolian motifs raised above the ground in an added yarn. A cicim is not embroidered, though it looks it — the extra threads go in at the loom, not afterwards with a needle.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBurgundy is what red becomes when it is worked in wool and left alone. It behaves differently at either end of the day: under an evening lamp it warms toward brick, and in flat north light it darkens almost to brown, and the motif rows above it swap places with the ground depending on which of those is happening. The Turkish description calls the piece köy dokuma, village weaving, which is a statement about who made it rather than about quality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in a village in Balıkesir province, in wool throughout. Village weaving means the piece was made at home on a domestic loom rather than in a workshop under a foreman, and the difference usually shows in the drawing: motifs sized by eye, rows drifting a little, the two ends not identical. That drift is the identifying mark, not a defect to be discounted for. Professional cleaning, and no home washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in a Balıkesir village, in wool throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim: supplementary pattern yarn laid over a plain flat ground at the loom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy-red ground carrying Anatolian motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDomestic loom rather than workshop, so motifs are sized by eye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e158 × 234 cm (5'2\" × 7'8\") — a sofa front, a study, or a wide hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy warms toward brick under lamplight and darkens in north light.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning; nothing at home.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed wool is the last color to look tired in a room, which is why village weavers kept coming back to it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Burgundy \/ 158 X 234","offer_id":45112001364201,"sku":"MZTKIL000072.01","price":46000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/RengarenkCicimDesenliElDokumaYunAnadoluKilim_1.jpg?v=1706013169"},{"product_id":"anadolu-cicim-desenli-el-dokuma-mut-kilim","title":"Multicolor Mut Handwoven Wool Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe wool in this one went into a piece barely two-thirds of a square meter: a handwoven Mut cicim kilim, 61 × 110 cm (2'0\" × 3'7\"), multicolored, made in Türkiye. Run a hand across it and the motifs are findable with your eyes shut — that is what cicim is, and why the technique has a name of its own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMut sits inland from Mersin, in country where weaving was a household activity rather than a trade, and pieces this size came out of it constantly: covers for a chest, faces for a cushion, mats for a doorway. The multicolored drawing is the one that would appear on a full floor kilim, reduced to whatever fits in 61 centimeters of width, which usually means two or three columns of motif and no border at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in wool, with the cicim threads carried over the ground weave as the piece was made. On a small kilim the finishing at the two ends is more than a detail — it is what holds the weaving shut, and once it loosens a small piece begins to undo itself from the end inward. Handle it by the body, not the ends. Clean it professionally, and rarely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in Mut, inland from Mersin.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim technique — motifs raised above a plain flat ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored, with the drawing reduced to what 61 cm of width allows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e61 × 110 cm (2'0\" × 3'7\") — a doorway, a chest top, or a cushion face.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNo border; the composition is columns of motif rather than a framed field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe end finishing holds a small weaving together — carry it by the body.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaned professionally, and not often.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSingle piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall weavings are the ones that survive, because nobody ever put a table on them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 61 X 110","offer_id":45112966807785,"sku":"MZTKIL000074.01","price":9600.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluCicimDesenliElDokumaMutKilim_1.jpg?v=1706013456"},{"product_id":"anadolu-desenli-yoruk-cicim-el-dokuma-sandik-eskisi-yun-heybe","title":"Multicolor Cicim Handwoven Wool Yörük Saddlebag","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA heybe is a saddlebag: two woven pouches joined by a panel that lay across the back of a horse or a donkey. This one was made in wool by Yörük weavers in Türkiye, worked in cicim, and measures 50 × 133 cm (1'8\" × 4'4\") laid out flat. It came out of a dowry chest rather than off a floor. There is one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCicim is the technique, and it is worth knowing what it does, because it is not weaving in the ordinary sense. The ground is woven flat, and while it is still on the loom the weaver wraps additional colored threads around groups of warps, so that the motif sits slightly proud of the ground — the effect of embroidery, produced without a needle and without a second pass. On a bag it also thickens the cloth, which is the sort of thing that mattered when the object had to carry weight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYörük households wove what they needed and decorated what they wove, and a heybe was needed: grain, bread, wool, whatever had to move went into it. The chest is why this one survived. Pieces put aside for a daughter's dowry were folded away instead of used, which is why the color on a chest piece is stronger than on a floor piece of the same age. It is wool throughout. Hang it, lay it over the end of a bench, or use it as it was meant to be used, though the wool is old and a modern load is not what it was measured for. Professional cleaning; nothing wet at home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool by Yörük weavers in Türkiye, in the cicim technique.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim wraps extra weft threads around the warps, so the motifs stand above the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e50 × 133 cm (1'8\" × 4'4\") measured flat, as a joined pair of pouches.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIt survived in a dowry chest, and the color shows it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eListed among the house's rare and older stock.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHangs on a wall, sits across a bench, or carries light things.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning; keep it out of water.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a cicim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCicim is a Turkish flatweaving technique in which the weaver wraps extra colored threads around groups of warp threads while the ground is still on the loom. 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This piece is worked that way across 161 × 392 cm (5'3\" × 12'10\") of handwoven wool, multicolored, made in Türkiye and held among the house's older stock.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt nearly four meters this is one of the pieces that used to be laid down the middle of a village house, and the drawing is organized for that length: motif units in rows, changing color as they go, with the cicim work catching light along the tops of the figures while the ground stays matt. Run a hand along it and you feel the pattern before you see it. That is the difference between cicim and a plain kilim, and it is what your fingers find first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool throughout, woven and wrapped by hand. Cicim takes longer than plain weaving because the wrapping is done thread by thread on a ground that still has to be beaten in, so a piece this size is months of work rather than weeks. The house lists it as old and as rare, and lists it that way without putting a year on it, which is the honest position — no authority dates a village weaving. Some of the raised threads on any old cicim will have worn or been repaired; that is the material's history and not a fault. Professional cleaning, and keep it off damp stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven wool kilim with cicim motif work, made in Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e161 × 392 cm (5'3\" × 12'10\") — a large sitting room or a long central hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMotifs raised above the flat ground, so the pattern can be felt as well as seen.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored, with the units changing color along the length.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eListed by the house among its old and rare pieces; no date is claimed for it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWrapped thread by thread — months of work rather than weeks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional cleaning; keep it away from damp floors.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA rug you can read with your fingers is a different proposition from one you only look at, and it is the older idea by a long way.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 161 X 392","offer_id":45537209450729,"sku":"MZTKIL000077.01","price":62000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaCokRenkliAnadoluCicimKilim_1.jpg?v=1706013770"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-yun-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-antalya-cicim-kilim","title":"Multicolor Handwoven Wool Antalya Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt looks embroidered and it is not. This is cicim, a flatweave in which a second decorative weft is threaded in while the ground is still being built, so the figures end up standing on the surface instead of lying in it. Handwoven in wool in Antalya, multicolored, 163 × 300 cm (5'4\" × 9'10\"). One piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe difference shows when you turn the piece over. Ordinary kilim is made by the ground weft alone and is the same on both faces, whereas a cicim's supplementary threads are laid in from the front, so the back shows the structure while the front shows the ornament — readable from either side, but not identical. The raised figures also catch light along their edges and cast a small shadow, which is why the same dyes look stronger in cicim than they do in a plain flatweave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAntalya sits on the Mediterranean coast at the southern end of the Anatolian weaving belt. The house records this as an older weaving and holds it among its rare pieces, which says something about supply and nothing about quality: cicim at this size arrives one at a time. Wool front and back. Two practical points — the raised threads are the part that wears first, so a cicim belongs where feet pass rather than where a chair leg pivots, and a flatweave has nothing in it to soak up a spill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in Antalya, on the Mediterranean coast of Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim: a supplementary weft laid in during weaving, so the figures sit raised.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrnament on the front, structure on the back — legible from both, but not the same.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored, in Anatolian drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e163 × 300 cm (5'4\" × 9'10\") for a long sitting room, a hall, or a wide kitchen floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn older weaving, and one of the house's rare pieces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRaised threads wear first; keep chair legs off them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHave it washed by somebody who washes kilims.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCicim was what a household did when it had time and dyed wool to spare, and there is no industrial version of that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 163 X 300","offer_id":46150742802665,"sku":"MZTKIL000093.01","price":75000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaYunAnadoluDesenliRengarenkAntalyaCicimKilim_1.jpg?v=1706014940"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-yun-cicim-kilim","title":"Multicolor Handwoven Wool Çal Cicim Village Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA kilim almost exactly as wide as it is long: 126 × 130 cm (4'2\" × 4'3\"), handwoven in wool on a cotton warp at Çal, a district of Denizli in western Anatolia, and worked in the cicim technique. It is village work, stored rather than used, and there is one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCicim is not so much a weave as a second weave laid over the first. The ground goes down as ordinary flat kilim, and while it rises the weaver carries extra colored yarns across it, wrapping them round the warps so that the figures stand a fraction above the surface. Run a hand over one and the pattern can be felt before it is seen. The method is far slower than plain kilim, and it is the reason a cicim carries small dense figures where a kilim of the same size would carry a few large ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool for the figures and the ground, cotton in the warp holding it all under tension — the usual village division, cotton for strength and wool for color. Çal sits inland from Denizli, in country that wove for its own houses far longer than it wove for sale. A square kilim is an awkward object in a modern room, honestly: it will not fit a corridor, it is too small for a seating group, and it works best laid where a room turns a corner or hung flat where it can be read like a page. Cleaning by someone who handles kilim, not by a general rug service.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven at Çal, Denizli province, western Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool figures and wool ground on a cotton warp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e126 × 130 cm (4'2\" × 4'3\") — square within four centimeters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim: supplementary yarns wrapped over the ground weave, standing proud of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSmall, dense drawing, which is what the technique produces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA village weaving kept in storage rather than laid on a floor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning by a kilim specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSquare weavings usually end up on walls, and a cicim is the type that loses least by going there.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 126 X 130","offer_id":46846623449321,"sku":"MZTKIL000132.01","price":27000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkYunCicimKilim_2.jpg?v=1711530418"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-yun-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-cicim-kilim","title":"Multicolor Handwoven Wool Konya Cicim Village Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA handwoven Konya cicim kilim in wool and cotton, 95 × 130 cm (3'1\" × 4'3\"), carrying the Anatolian motif families in several colors over a ground that changes tone between them. Konya has been a center of Anatolian weaving since the Seljuk period. This is village work from the same province, and one of one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe oldest surviving Turkish rugs came out of the Alâeddin Mosque in Konya and are Seljuk work of the thirteenth century, which is worth having in the room when looking at a village weaving from the same province seven hundred years later. The vocabulary has not traveled as far as you would expect. Hooked forms, stepped diamonds and running borders are drawn here in brocaded yarn over the flat ground, each figure a small raised island of color with the kilim showing between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool takes the color and the cotton warp takes the strain, which is the construction used for a piece meant to last in a house rather than to be sold out of one. At 95 × 130 it is the size that fits beside a bed or under a low table, and it is light enough to need grip beneath it on a hard floor. What a cicim will not tolerate is a vacuum beater bar — the raised yarns sit on the surface, and a rotating brush drags them loose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is cicim weaving?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCicim is a brocading technique used on Anatolian flatweaves. Extra colored yarns are wrapped around the warp threads as the plain ground weave rises, so the motifs sit slightly above the surface and can be felt with a hand. It is considerably slower than plain kilim weaving.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow should a cicim kilim be vacuumed?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse suction alone and keep a rotating beater bar away from it. The brocaded yarns lie on the surface rather than being locked into the structure, and a revolving brush can pull them loose. 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Handwoven in wool on the Kozak plateau above Bergama, in İzmir province, in the full Anatolian palette. A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKozak is pine forest and granite, a plateau standing above the Aegean coastal plain, and the weaving is done in the villages up there. Color arrives in blocks. A field of one tone gives way to a band of another with no blending at the join, and brocaded figures ride over the top in third and fourth colors, which is why a piece like this photographs busier than it looks on a floor. Standing on it, the eye sorts the bands out at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool throughout. Four square meters of brocade is heavy — heavier than a plain kilim the same size, since every raised figure adds yarn the ground weave would not otherwise carry — and that weight is what keeps a flatweave this large lying flat without help. It is also the practical warning. This is not a piece to move around casually, and not one for a room where chairs get dragged, because a chair leg catches a raised figure long before it would catch knotted pile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool on the Kozak plateau, Bergama, İzmir province.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e171 × 231 cm (5'7\" × 7'7\") — around four square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCicim brocading over a flat kilim ground, in the full Anatolian palette.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eColor arrives in blocks, unblended at the joins.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHeavy for a flatweave, and it lies flat without an underlay.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRaised figures catch on dragged chair legs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a flatweave specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost cicim ends up as a cushion or a hanging because the technique rarely gets this far, and a floor-sized one is the rarer object by some distance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 171 X 231","offer_id":46848534380777,"sku":"MZTKIL000138.01","price":59000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkYunKozakCicimKilim_2.jpg?v=1711535056"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-turuncu-kok-boya-fethiye-yildizli-cicim-kilim","title":"Orange Star-Motif Handwoven Wool Cicim Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFethiye sits on the Mediterranean coast of Muğla province, and what comes off its village looms is cicim — a flatweave with the motifs laid in afterward, thread by thread, over the woven ground. This one is orange, wool throughout, 127 × 176 cm (4'2\" × 5'9\"), carrying rows of stars, and there is a single example of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCicim is worth explaining, because the word does not translate. A kilim is built from weft alone: the pattern is the structure. In cicim the ground is woven first and the figures are then wrapped in with an extra yarn that floats over the surface, so the motifs sit slightly proud and you can feel them with a hand. Here the stars run in loose ranks across an orange field, dark reds and blue-greens among them, and none of the ranks quite line up with the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe color is \u003cem\u003ekök boya\u003c\/em\u003e — dye taken from roots and other plant matter rather than a chemical bath. Plant dye behaves differently from the start: it never quite saturates, and it fades in a warm direction, so a naturally dyed orange goes toward apricot with age while a synthetic one goes gray. The wool is Anatolian and the whole thing was made by hand in Türkiye. One warning, plainly: brocaded motifs sit on the surface, so a spike heel or a dog's claw can pull a float loose. It is not a rug for a busy corridor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, in the cicim technique of the Fethiye villages.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool ground and wool motifs, brocaded rather than knotted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrange field with ranks of star figures in dark red and blue-green.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDyed with root and plant dyes, which age toward warmth rather than gray.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e127 × 176 cm (4'2\" × 5'9\") — a bedside, an entryway, a wall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe wrapped motifs stand above the ground and can be snagged.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing is a job for a specialist, not a domestic machine.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne kilim; the arrangement of the stars will not recur.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a cicim kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCicim is a flatweave in which the ground is woven first and the motifs are added with a supplementary yarn wrapped over the surface. The figures stand slightly proud of the weave and can be felt by hand, which is what separates cicim from a plain kilim, where the pattern and the structure are the same thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow can I tell root-dyed wool from chemically dyed wool?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy how it ages. Root and plant dyes rarely reach full saturation and they lose color in a warm direction, so an old naturally dyed orange drifts toward apricot. Synthetic dye holds its strength longer and then goes flat and grayish, and it seldom shows the tone bands left by small dye lots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHung on a plain wall it reads as a piece of drawing; on the floor it will slowly lose the last of its sharpness, which is the better ending of the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is a cicim kilim?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Cicim is a flatweave in which the ground is woven first and the motifs are added with a supplementary yarn wrapped over the surface. 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Cicim means the motifs are carried on top of the ground weave instead of being part of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing is Anatolian and built from repeats small enough to be held in memory — hooked diamonds, stepped edges, running guard stripes — in colors used at full strength and never blended. Because the motif threads sit above the ground, the pattern stands in slight relief, and you can find it with your fingers in the dark. Follow one row along and the same motif will not come out exactly the same width twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool throughout, woven flat on a village loom, with the cicim threads wrapped in as the weaving advanced rather than embroidered on afterward. That distinction is the whole of the technique, and it is why the back of a cicim looks like weaving instead of like sewing. A piece this size was a domestic object — a cover, a cushion face, a mat inside a door. It is thin, so it wants grip beneath it on a hard floor, and its edges are no longer perfectly straight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow is cicim different from embroidery?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCicim is worked on the loom. The extra threads that form the motif are wrapped around the warp as the weaving goes forward, so the design is structural. Embroidery is added with a needle to finished cloth. On a cicim the reverse still looks woven, which is the quickest way to tell them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a Yörük weaving?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYörük is the name for the Turkish pastoral communities who moved between winter and summer pasture in Anatolia. Their weavings were made for household use on portable looms, which is why the pieces are small, the wool comes from flocks nearby, and the motifs repeat forms carried in memory rather than copied from a drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How is cicim different from embroidery?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Cicim is worked on the loom. The extra threads that form the motif are wrapped around the warp as the weaving goes forward, so the design is structural. Embroidery is added with a needle to finished cloth. 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