Viscose catching light on matt wool, an abstract gray
200×300 cm
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200×300 cm
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Wool for the ground, viscose for the shine, 6 mm deep
200×300 cm
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Gray drifting to ivory, four parts wool to one of viscose
90×500 cm
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Cream and nothing else on it, 8 mm of viscose pile
300×400 cm
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Knots big enough to see, 2,800 grams a square meter
100×400 cm
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Eighteen millimeters deep, a white that looks knitted
200×300 cm
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White with nothing drawn on it: 12 mm of viscose pile
200×300 cm
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Plain gray, 100% viscose, and it remembers where you walked
200×290 cm
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Eight millimeters of yellow pile, 2,700 grams a square meter
160×230 cm
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Silver-gray viscose that turns pearl under a lamp
200×290 cm
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Cream at 12 mm, firm rather than plush: knots you can count
170×240 cm
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Diagonals gathering inward, a plain frame, mostly polyester
170×240 cm
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Close grays spun into one yarn, wool over cotton in India
170×240 cm
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Knots tight as knitting, anthracite flecked with gray
170×240 cm
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Navy stepping down through gray to beige, three tones
200×300 cm
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Mustard settling into gray over a 7 mm pile
200×300 cm
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Honey through the middle, coal black holding down the end
200×300 cm
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Beige at one end, near-black at the other, nothing sharp between
201×297 cm
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Yellow-green, olive, then a cold green: one field, no joins
200×300 cm
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Warm beige cooling to gray across 7 mm of wool pile
200×300 cm
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Forest green in shade, and 100% viscose taking the light
160×230 cm
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Terracotta with no pattern, 8 mm of viscose that shows footmarks
160×230 cm
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Gray viscose, 12 mm deep, keeping a record of every step
200×300 cm
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Ribs that run like knitted rows, three fifths of it polyester
130×190 cm
The Nika Series is Halıcızade's modern line: plain and softly abstract grounds, woven mostly by hand or on a loom, in wool, viscose and cotton. The palette runs through gray, beige, cream and anthracite, opening out into terra, green and navy. Nika's job is to quiet a floor, not to fill it.
What follows is what actually separates one Nika rug from another — the drawing, the fiber, the pile, the size range and the two weaving methods the series is built on.
Modern and plain are not the same thing
They overlap in Nika, but they answer different questions.
Modern is a design language. There is no symmetrical central medallion, no framed border, no repeating field. Plain is a matter of density — how much there is on the ground to read. Part of the series is genuinely plain: the color opens and closes within itself and nothing else happens. Another part carries abstract transitions, fine lines or soft geometric blocks.
Both count as modern, and they do different work in a room. A plain ground pushes the furniture forward. An abstract ground adds a movement of its own, which is useful when the furniture is quiet and something has to happen at floor level. See the wider selection at modern rugs and plain-color rugs.
Gray, beige or anthracite: which ground for which room
Gray pulls the floor back; beige pushes the walls out; anthracite draws a line.
Against oak and walnut, which carry a yellow-red undertone, a cool gray reads as contrast. A warm gray with beige in it sits with the same wood without arguing. Under a dark leather sofa, a light gray defines the piece without adding weight to it.
Beige and cream do the opposite. They spread light and make a room read larger, and in a salon that gets little daylight the difference against a gray ground is visible rather than theoretical. The trade is that they show a mark sooner, which matters on a traffic line.
Anthracite is the most defined choice in the series. It works against pale furniture and draws a clear edge around a seating group — useful in an open plan where nothing else does.
Wool and viscose, and what each fiber is doing
Wool carries the ground; viscose makes the pattern visible.
Wool is matte, dense and warm. It does not hold a footprint, and it recovers after pressure. Viscose is a regenerated fiber spun from wood cellulose, and in a rug it does one thing well: it breaks light. The same ground looks different in the morning and the evening, and different again when the rug is turned. In Nika's abstract models, most of what looks like a second color is not a second dye at all — it is viscose lying next to wool.
The honest part: viscose loses strength when it is wet. Spills should be blotted rather than left, and the rug should not be put away damp. Some models blend in synthetic yarn to hold the surface together; which fiber is in which rug is stated on the product page.
| Fiber | Surface | Behavior | Where it suits |
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| Wool | Matte, dense, warm | Recovers from pressure, hides marks | Traffic lanes, seating groups, rooms in daily use |
| Viscose | Reflective, cool to the hand | Shifts value with the light and the angle | Rooms that are looked at more than walked on |
| Wool and viscose blended | Matte ground with lit passages | Wool takes the wear, viscose carries the drawing | Most of the abstract Nika models |
| Cotton | Crisp, cool, flat | Holds its shape, takes dye cleanly | Foundations, and light flat surfaces |
Browse by fiber at wool rugs and viscose rugs.
Pile height and weight, and what they tell you
Pile height is the length of the yarn standing off the foundation, measured in millimeters.
Nika's thin models sit around 5 mm. They pass under a door, let a dining chair slide, and belong under a table. Models at 12 mm and over are softer to stand on and need the gap under the door checked first. The series also runs past 25 mm at the deep end.
Grams per square meter is the weight of one square meter of finished rug, and it stands in for density. At the same pile height, a heavier rug was woven tighter: it feels firmer underfoot and lies down more slowly over the years. The relationship between the two numbers is not one-directional — a thin rug woven very densely can outlast a thick one woven loosely. Both figures are on each product page.
Sizes, runners and made to measure
Most Nika patterns are woven in more than one size, so a drawing you like can usually be had in the size your room wants.
The range runs from 80 x 150 cm (2'7" x 4'11") to a salon size of 300 x 400 cm (9'10" x 13'1"), with 130 x 190, 170 x 240, 200 x 300 and 250 x 350 cm in between. Runners are woven 80, 90 and 100 cm wide in lengths to five meters.
A size that is not in stock can often be requested — not for every pattern, but for a substantial part of the series. For corridor lengths, see hallway runners.
Handwoven, loom-woven, and where Nika is made
The series holds both techniques, and the difference is read on the back rather than the front.
In hand-knotting, every knot is tied individually and a rug takes months. On the loom, the structure is set mechanically and the surface work and finishing are completed by hand — a step below hand-knotting in cost, and a step above machine weaving in the evenness of the result. Turn a loom-woven rug over and the rows run straighter. Which technique made which rug is in the product name and on its page.
Most of the series is woven in India, in hand and loom workshops. A smaller group is woven in Türkiye, and those are mostly the viscose-heavy, thin-pile models. There is almost no machine-woven rug in Nika. Compare the methods at hand-knotted rugs and loom-woven rugs.
What is normal in a Nika rug
Finishing is done by hand, so the edges may not come out exactly parallel — one end can be a few centimeters wider than the other, and a row of pattern can shift by a millimeter or two. This comes from the tension on the loom, and it is not corrected. It does not appear in every piece; plenty of weavings come off perfectly square.
In the models containing viscose, the sheen changes with the light and with where you are standing. The tone you saw on a screen and the tone in your own room will not be identical, and the ground darkens and lightens as the rug is turned. That is the fiber refracting light, not a color fault. A new rug also sheds a little pile in its first weeks; it comes up with the vacuum and stops on its own.
Frequently asked questions
What is the Nika Series?
Nika is Halıcızade's modern line: plain and softly abstract grounds in wool, viscose and cotton, mostly loom-woven or hand-knotted in India, with a smaller group of viscose pieces woven in Türkiye. The palette runs through gray, beige, cream and anthracite.
Is a modern rug the same as a plain rug?
No. Modern describes the drawing — no central medallion, no framed border. Plain describes how much of it there is. A Nika rug can be modern and heavily abstract at once, or modern and almost empty.
What does viscose do in a rug?
It breaks light. Viscose is a regenerated fiber made from wood cellulose, and it reflects at a different angle from wool, so the same ground looks lighter or darker depending on where you stand and which way the pile is lying.
Is viscose durable?
Viscose loses strength when it is wet, so spills should be blotted immediately and the rug should never be left damp. Several Nika models blend viscose with wool or synthetic yarn for that reason, and each product page states what is in it.
What pile heights does Nika come in?
From about 5 mm to over 25 mm. A 5 mm pile passes under most interior doors and lets a dining chair slide; anything at 12 mm or more should be checked against the gap under the door before it is ordered.
What does grams per square meter tell me?
It is the weight of one square meter of rug, and it stands in for how densely the piece was woven. At the same pile height, a heavier rug is packed tighter, feels firmer underfoot and flattens more slowly.
Can Nika rugs be made in a custom size?
Many of the patterns can. Sizes run from 80 x 150 cm up to 300 x 400 cm, with runners 80 to 100 cm wide and up to five meters long, and requests outside that range can be put to the workshop for a large part of the series.
Related collections: modern rugs · wool rugs · gray rugs · anthracite rugs