{"title":"Antique Rugs and Old Kilims","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rare rug at Halıcızade is a single old handwoven piece — an antique or semi-antique Anatolian rug, a village kilim, a prayer rug — bought one at a time from auctions and private collections. The pile and the weft are wool, the weaving is by hand, and the stock is usually one. When a piece sells, nothing replaces it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe shop calls this section Nâdir Parçalar, rare pieces. What follows is what the words on these product pages mean: what a chest-kept rug is, how cicim, sumak and tülü differ from one another, why a band of uneven color is evidence rather than damage, and what the trade is actually claiming when it says antique.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhere these rugs come from\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey are collected, not ordered. Pieces are bought individually at auction and out of private collections rather than wholesale, and nothing here is commissioned from a working loom, so the spread of regions is the result of what turned up rather than of a plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe weight of the selection is Anatolian: Konya and its villages of Karapınar and İnlice, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/usak-rugs\"\u003eOushak\u003c\/a\u003e, Çanakkale, Van, \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/kayseri-rugs\"\u003eKayseri\u003c\/a\u003e, Kula, Yahyalı, Sivas, Sivrihisar, Taşpınar in Aksaray, and Antep. Less common districts turn up too — Kars, Döşemealtı, Balıkesir's Karakeçili and Yağcıbedir weavers. Among them are \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/yoruk-rugs\"\u003eYörük\u003c\/a\u003e weavings, village kilims and prayer rugs, and a few Turkmen pieces that came by way of Afghanistan.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat a chest-kept rug is\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chest-kept rug — sandık eskisi in Turkish — was woven and then never put on a floor. It waited folded in a dowry chest, and it either traveled to the bride's new house or it never left.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSunlight never reached it and no one walked on it. Madder red and indigo blue keep the depth they had on the loom, and the pile never met the weight that lays it down. A kilim that comes out of a chest is noticeably darker than a relative woven the same year and spread on a floor. Fold lines are visible for the first weeks and settle as the rug takes its own weight; heat or an iron flattens the pile permanently, and the pile does not come back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eCicim, sumak and tülü\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are three flat-weaving techniques, and they are told apart by the surface rather than by the pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003cth\u003eTechnique\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eHow it is made\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eSurface\u003c\/th\u003e\u003cth\u003eHow the pattern reads\u003c\/th\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eCicim\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eMotif worked onto a finished flat weave with a separate supplementary yarn\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eRaised — a fingertip finds the motif standing above the ground\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eSharp, drawn, slightly embroidered\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eSumak\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eWeft wrapped around the warps one by one; no pile is formed and the tail ends are left loose behind\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eFlat and ribbed, with a shaggy back\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eThe back reads almost as clearly as the front\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eTülü\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eLong-piled central Anatolian weaving, sparse knots holding long tufts of mohair or wool\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eDeep and lying flat\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eClose up rather than across a room\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003eKnotted pile\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eRows of knots tied on the warp, beaten down and clipped level\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eDense, even, upright\u003c\/td\u003e\u003ctd\u003eAt any distance; fine drawing needs a high knot count\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMore of the same techniques, in current production, sits under \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/kilim-rugs\"\u003ehandwoven kilims\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMadder, indigo and abrash\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNatural dye is a plant record. Red comes from madder root, yellow from mignonette flowers, blue from indigo — and two skeins boiled in the same pot do not come out the same tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the weaver reaches the end of one dye lot and starts another, a horizontal band of slightly different color appears across the field. That band is \u003cstrong\u003eabrash\u003c\/strong\u003e, and it is not a defect. It marks where the work stopped and where it started again. A synthetic-dyed rug has no abrash because it has no pause worth recording.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat \"antique\" means, and what it does not\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe formal definition is a hundred years and older, which is the line customs authorities and auction houses work to. The Turkish rug trade uses the word far more loosely, and a fifty-year-old Yörük kilim and a Konya rug just out of a chest are often sold under the same one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe house convention is plainer. Antique means a hundred years or more; semi-antique, fifty to a hundred; vintage, roughly twenty to eighty; anything else is new. These are trade usage and nothing more — no body issues, registers or audits them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA year is written on a piece here only where there is documentation or a source that can be checked. Where the age is documented, the year appears in the product name itself, as in \"Certified 80 Years\". A name with no year in it means the age is not documented, and no number is offered in its place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhere a piece carries no documented year, its age can still be estimated. Four signs are worth trusting, and none of them gives a date on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDye.\u003c\/strong\u003e Madder and indigo open and soften with time in a way that is gradual down the length of a single fiber.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWear.\u003c\/strong\u003e Pile tips thin toward the knot collar where feet have worked them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWarp.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hand-spun yarn thickens and thins along its length; machine yarn is uniform.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe back.\u003c\/strong\u003e Knot rows in an old handwoven rug run slightly out of true.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRead together they give a range rather than a year, and the range is an estimate. Product pages carry the details that can be seen and leave out the ones that cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat decides the price\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFour things: area in square meters, knot density, whether the dye is natural or synthetic, and condition. A small prayer rug and a room-sized weaving more than three meters long sit at opposite ends of a wide band, and both are here.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWorkmanship raises a price more reliably than scarcity does. Two kilims from the same district are priced differently when one is densely beaten and the other open. Each product page carries its own size, fiber, technique and price per square meter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat is normal in a handwoven rug\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edges are not parallel. One end runs a few centimeters wider than the other, corners are slightly out of square, and somewhere a row of motifs steps out of line. Loom tension shifts over months of weaving and the cloth records it, so none of it is corrected.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSizes are not standard either. A kilim may be half as wide as it is long, or a narrow runner may reach nearly 400 × 90 cm (13'1\" × 2'11\"). A shape like that does not drop into most living rooms — it belongs in a corridor, on a landing, at the foot of a bed. The room is chosen for the rug rather than the other way round.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eFrequently asked questions\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does \"chest-kept\" mean on a rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chest-kept rug, sandık eskisi in Turkish, was woven and then stored folded in a dowry chest instead of being laid on a floor. Sun and traffic never reached it, so its natural dyes stay deeper than those of a rug of the same age in daily use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eIs abrash a flaw?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNo. Abrash is a horizontal band of slightly different color left where the weaver moved from one dye lot to the next. It is a mark of hand-dyed yarn and hand weaving; it is never corrected, and in an old rug it is often the most interesting thing in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow old does a rug have to be to count as antique?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA hundred years or more under the formal definition used by customs and auction houses. Halıcızade uses antique for a hundred years and over, semi-antique for fifty to a hundred, and vintage for roughly twenty to eighty. These are trade conventions with no issuing authority.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eHow can the age of a handwoven rug be judged?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy four signs read together: the softening of madder and indigo, pile tips worn thin toward the knot, hand-spun warp yarn that thickens and thins along its length, and irregular knot rows on the back. Together they suggest a range rather than a year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy do the two ends of one rug measure differently?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause tension on a hand loom changes over the months a rug takes to weave. One end commonly runs a few centimeters wider than the other, corners sit slightly out of square, and a row of motifs may step out of line. None of it is straightened afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCan a second rug be ordered like the one I bought?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot from this section. Pieces here are collected individually from auctions and private collections rather than woven to order, and most are held in a stock of one. Once a rug sells, a similar piece may appear later, but the same rug will not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"What does \\\"chest-kept\\\" mean on a rug?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"A chest-kept rug, sandık eskisi in Turkish, was woven and then stored folded in a dowry chest instead of being laid on a floor. Sun and traffic never reached it, so its natural dyes stay deeper than those of a rug of the same age in daily use.\"}},{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Is abrash a flaw?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"No. Abrash is a horizontal band of slightly different color left where the weaver moved from one dye lot to the next. 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Once a rug sells, a similar piece may appear later, but the same rug will not.\"}}]}\u003c\/script\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelated collections:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/vintage-rugs\"\u003evintage rugs\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/authentic-rugs\"\u003eauthentic Anatolian rugs\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/kilim-rugs\"\u003ehandwoven kilims\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","products":[{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-kayseri-kilim","title":"Multicolor Anatolian Handwoven Wool Kayseri Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKayseri sits at the foot of Erciyes in central Anatolia and has been weaving for as long as the records go back. This is a handwoven wool kilim from there: flat, pileless, multicolored, worked in the Anatolian motif repertoire, 114 × 199 cm (3'9\" × 6'6\"). A single piece, and an older one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA kilim is weft-faced, which is the technical way of saying that the horizontal threads are beaten down so tightly that the vertical ones vanish under them. Nothing is knotted, nothing stands proud, and the pattern exists only as the meeting of colored wefts — which is why kilim motifs are always angular, why the piece weighs so little, and why the reverse is as finished as the front. Where two colors meet along a vertical line the weaver leaves a slit, and holding one of these up to a window shows those slits as a row of small bright lines. That is correct construction, not damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe motifs are the standard Anatolian vocabulary — hooked forms, stepped diamonds, running borders — and the color is what marks it out, several strong dyes at once rather than a single dominant field. It was woven by hand, in wool, in Türkiye, and the house lists it among its older and rarer stock. Expect what that implies: a corner that has curled, a color that has moved a shade, an edge that is not perfectly straight. Have it washed by a kilim specialist before it goes down, and put a pad under it, because a flatweave with nothing beneath it wanders. 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Handwoven wool, Anatolian in drawing, from Van in the far east of Türkiye, 158 × 208 cm (5'2\" × 6'10\"), and there is one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePlant dye behaves differently from the synthetic kind in a way anyone can see. It does not sit at one exact value — madder from two different diggings gives two slightly different reds, and the difference stays visible in the finished piece as horizontal banding, which the trade calls abrash. It also ages by going quieter rather than by going gray, so a naturally dyed kilim at fifty years old looks like a softer version of itself instead of a faded one. The drawing carrying that color is the eastern Anatolian repertoire: stepped and hooked geometry, a strong border, and several color fields rather than one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVan lies on the eastern lake of the same name, about as far from the Aegean workshops as Anatolian weaving goes. A flatweave asks for a wool that will pack hard under the beater without felting, and that is the demand this construction makes of the fiber. The house lists the piece among its older and rarer stock, and it carries the slight crookedness and softening that go with that. What natural dye cannot do is take strong sunlight indefinitely, so keep it off the patch of floor that gets four hours of afternoon sun. Clean it through a specialist who knows plant dyes, since some solvents will move them. 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A multicolor Anatolian tülü runner, handwoven in wool in Türkiye, 100 × 335 cm (3'3\" × 10'11\"), with orange running through it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA tülü is not a kilim and not a knotted rug: it is a long-pile Anatolian weaving in which loops of unspun or barely spun wool are worked into a flatwoven ground and left standing, giving a shaggy, uneven surface with a knot count far below that of a village rug. They were made for sleeping and sitting on rather than for display, which is why the drawing on them is loose and the color arrangement is closer to improvisation than to a pattern. Anatolian motifs appear, but interrupted, and the length of the pile blurs their edges further.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSandık eskisi is the Turkish phrase for it — literally chest-old, a piece kept folded in a dowry chest and taken out only for guests, which is how a wool weaving survives this long at all. What comes with that history is real. Expect creases where it was folded for decades, some flattening in the pile, and color that has moved unevenly. A hundred by three hundred and thirty-five centimeters puts it squarely in a corridor, and at this age it should be washed by someone who handles old wool and nobody else. When this goes there is not another with these particular sixty years in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a tülü?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA tülü is a long-pile Anatolian weaving in which loops of thick, barely spun wool are worked into a flatwoven ground and left standing. The result is shaggy and uneven, with a much lower knot density than a village rug, and it was made to be slept and sat on rather than looked at.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does sandık eskisi mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt translates as chest-old: a piece that was kept folded away in a dowry chest and brought out only for guests. 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That is the usual explanation for how a wool weaving reaches sixty or a hundred years in usable condition, and it also explains the fold lines such pieces arrive with.\"}}]}\u003c\/script\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in Türkiye; the house dates it at 60 to 100 years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTülü construction: long loops of thick wool standing on a flatwoven ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100 × 335 cm (3'3\" × 10'11\") — corridor proportions.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored with orange dominant, in a loose Anatolian drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSandık eskisi: kept folded in a chest, which is why it survived.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFold creases, flattened pile and uneven color come with the age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTrade age terms are conventions with no issuing authority behind them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by someone who works on old wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhoever wove this was making something to sleep on, and it has outlived every rug that was made to be admired.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 100 X 335","offer_id":44252128313577,"sku":"HALİKİ000027.01","price":57000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/products\/ikinci-el-anadolu-desenli-el-dokuma-tulu-kilim-25521.jpg?v=1689706227"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-sine-rengarenk-kilim","title":"Multicolor Handwoven Senneh Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSenneh is the old name of Sanandaj, the town in the Kurdish region of western Iran whose weavers gave their name to a whole family of finely drawn flatweaves. This is a handwoven Senneh kilim in wool on cotton, multicolor, made in the Middle East, and it is not a new piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no pile on a kilim. The weft is packed hard against the warp until the cloth itself is the pattern, and the same drawing comes up on both faces. Senneh work is known for fineness — a tighter weft and smaller motifs than most village flatweaves — and the color here runs across the whole register rather than settling into a scheme. Reds meet greens meet blues, and because the piece has age on it the dyes have already done most of their moving, so the tones now sit together in a way a new kilim's do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool takes the weft and the color; cotton takes the warp and the strength. It is listed among the house's rare pieces, and rare here describes supply rather than urgency — older kilims in this condition come out of the trade a few at a time. Being old, it carries the wear of use: a flatweave has no pile to disguise thinning, so the honest description is that this is a used textile, not an unused one. Professional washing, and no household cleaning at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven flatweave — wool weft on a cotton warp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSenneh drawing: fine weave, small motifs, no pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolor, with the tones already settled by age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven in the Middle East; an older piece, not new production.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReversible — the pattern reads on both faces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShows the wear that comes with age; a flatweave cannot hide it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single rare piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat makes a kilim a Senneh kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSenneh, now Sanandaj in western Iran, produced flatweaves woven finer than most village work, with small motifs and a tightly packed weft. 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A rug that spent its life folded arrives with the evidence of it: expect crease lines where the folds were, some unevenness in the pile, and tones that have shifted at different rates from one part of it to another. None of that is damage, and all of it is the reason the piece still exists. Wool of this age wants a washer who works on old rugs and no one else. The trade's age words are conventions with no authority behind them \u0026mdash; a hundred years for antique, fifty to a hundred for semi-antique, twenty and up for vintage \u0026mdash; and this rug has not been measured against any of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does sandık eskisi mean?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChest-old. It describes a rug made for a dowry chest and kept inside one instead of being used, brought out for guests and folded away again. 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Sivrihisar is a district of Eskişehir, on the road between Ankara and the Aegean, and it has woven kilims for a very long time. One piece, and an old one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe proportion is the first thing to reckon with. At six and a half square meters this is a large floor covering, but the length runs to more than double the width, and modern furniture is not laid out around that shape. It came out of a house where a room was dressed with two or three flatweaves laid parallel rather than one rectangle in the middle, and it still does that job better than any other. Down a long hall, or along one side of a room with the seating gathered on it, the proportion stops being awkward and becomes the reason to have it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool wefts beaten down over cotton warps. The cotton does the structural work — it takes the tension on the loom and holds the length straight over three and a half meters, which sheep's wool alone would not do at this span — and the wool carries every color you can see. Colors here are set against one another at full strength, with no single dye put in charge of the rest. Halıcızade files it with the older and scarcer stock, so expect an edge that is not dead straight and a dye that has drifted. 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There is no second length of this.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKilims of this length stopped being made when rooms stopped being this shape, which is the whole reason to take one when it appears.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 175 X 370","offer_id":44216040980713,"sku":"MZTSVR000001.01","price":103000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkSivrihisarKilim_1.jpg?v=1706020441"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-hoca-rosnai-afgan-desenli-hali","title":"Burgundy Hoca Roşnai Hand-Knotted Afghan Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTwo named patterns run through it: Buhara, the star, and Kel İsa. Both were set down from memory — no cartoon, no template — by weavers in northern Afghanistan, most of them women working at home. A hand-knotted rug in burgundy and navy, wool on cotton, 200 × 290 cm (6'7\" × 9'6\"). One of one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGeometric forms interlock across the whole field, and because the drawing came out of the weaver's head rather than off a page, the repeats shift by a knot here and there. That drift is the rug. Burgundy dominates and navy holds the structure beneath it, the traditional Afghan pairing and the reason these pieces sit so easily beside wood and cream. Nothing in the composition is centered; the pattern simply continues, and it can be cut at any edge without looking cut.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHoca Roşnai is a quality designation rather than a place — within Afghan weaving it names the highest grade for both yarn and knot density, and this rug is one. Wool pile, cotton foundation, hundreds of thousands of knots. A piece of roughly six square metres at this grade takes months of continuous work. It has to be washed by a professional. In a modern room it is the one traditional object; in a traditional one it disappears usefully into the whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in northern Afghanistan, largely by women working at home.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHoca Roşnai grade — the finest yarn and knot density in Afghan weaving.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton foundation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBuhara star and Kel İsa motifs, set down from memory without a cartoon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBurgundy and navy, the traditional Afghan pairing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e200 × 290 cm (6'7\" × 9'6\"), and months of work at this grade.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does Hoca Roşnai mean on an Afghan rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a quality grade rather than a region. Within Afghan weaving it designates the finest yarn and the highest knot density available, and rugs carrying it are among the most valued the country produces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat are the Buhara and Kel İsa patterns?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuhara is the Turkmen star, an octagonal motif repeated in rows across the field. Kel İsa is a second traditional Afghan design worked alongside it. Both are geometric, and both were woven here from memory rather than from a drawn cartoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy is the pattern slightly irregular?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause no template was used. The weaver carried the design in her head and set it down knot by knot, so the repeats shift a little from row to row. 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A handwoven wool kilim from Sivrihisar, 155 × 355 cm (5'1\" × 11'8\"), thirty to forty years old, and stored folded away from daylight for most of that time — which is why its colors still read at full strength instead of the softened tone an old flatweave usually arrives with.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDye and sunlight are the real argument in a village kilim. Wool takes color deeply and holds it, but ultraviolet light breaks the dye down at the surface of the fiber regardless of how it was made, and the reds and yellows go first. A kilim that spent four decades on a lit floor comes back a half-tone paler across the whole face and paler still along the strip nearest a window. This one did not. The motifs are the Anatolian repertoire — hooked forms, stepped bands, the running border — and they carry the contrast the weaver actually intended, which is a rarer thing to see than the weaving itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSivrihisar kilims hold a registered geographical indication, a legal tie between the name and the district; this piece was woven in one of those villages, by hand, entirely in wool. Thirty to forty years makes it vintage under the age conventions of this trade: antique at a hundred years or more, semi-antique between fifty and a hundred, vintage from twenty to eighty, with no body anywhere issuing those definitions. The same storage that saved the color also means the fold lines have set, and they will want a few weeks flat and weighted before they relax. Have it washed by someone who cleans kilims for a living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhy does storage matter more than age on a kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUltraviolet light breaks down dye at the fiber surface, so two kilims woven the same year can look decades apart depending on whether one lived on a sunlit floor. A piece kept folded in the dark keeps the contrast its weaver built into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does a geographical indication protect?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe registration ties a product name legally to its district of origin, so a kilim may be sold as a Sivrihisar kilim only if it was woven there. It certifies where, not how old or how good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in a Sivrihisar village, wool throughout, no pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThirty to forty years old — vintage by trade usage, which is twenty to eighty years.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKept out of direct light, so the dyes read at close to their original strength.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e155 × 355 cm (5'1\" × 11'8\"): long, narrow, and made for a floor laid with more than one piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnatolian motifs at full contrast, worked without a paper drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSet fold lines from long storage; a few weeks flat under weight will settle them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a kilim specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMost old kilims tell you how much light they have seen; this one has the awkward distinction of not having seen any.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why does storage matter more than age on a kilim?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Ultraviolet light breaks down dye at the fiber surface, so two kilims woven the same year can look decades apart depending on whether one lived on a sunlit floor. 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Woven in Türkiye, listed among the house's older stock, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn all-wool kilim is a different object from a wool-on-cotton one, and the difference is in the hand. Cotton warps give a flatweave a certain rigidity and a straighter edge; wool warps let the whole piece move, so it drapes, folds soft and settles into a floor that is not perfectly level instead of bridging over it. The cost of that is the edge — an all-wool kilim rarely sits dead straight, and this one does not pretend to. The motifs sit in bands across the width, the way the weaver worked, row after row from one end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEverything visible was done on a two-beam loom by one pair of hands, and the drawing was carried in memory. That is legible in the piece: a motif that is two knots wider in its fourth repeat than in its first, a border that adjusts itself where the weaver ran out of room. Anatolian motif families are older than the kilims that carry them, and a village weaver used them as a working vocabulary rather than as ornament. Take it to a specialist for washing, and put a thin pad beneath it, since a flatweave with nothing under it travels across a hard floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, warp and weft both wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat-woven with no pile, and the reverse as finished as the face.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e155 × 325 cm (5'1\" × 10'8\"), a little over five square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored bands of Anatolian motifs, worked from memory rather than a cartoon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAll-wool construction drapes and folds soft; the edges are not perfectly straight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn older piece from the house's rare stock.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA thin pad underneath keeps it from walking.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA kilim this size is light enough to move on a whim, which is how most of them end up in a different room each year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 155 X 325","offer_id":44216084070633,"sku":"MZTKIL000018.01","price":80000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkKilim_1_e343727b-435c-45f9-8b57-d8af6f2511b2.jpg?v=1705998154"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-cicim-desenli-rengarenk-kazak-kilim","title":"Multicolor Kazak Cicim Handwoven Wool Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe motifs stand slightly above the ground rather than in it. 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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In feet that is 3'1\" × 6'0\", under two square meters, and the piece is \u003cem\u003esandık eskisi\u003c\/em\u003e, stored in a dowry chest rather than laid on a floor.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall kilims were never the leftovers. A weaver made this width because the loom was this width, and because a house needed pieces that could be moved: laid beside a bed in winter and rolled up in summer, spread for a guest, hung across a doorway against a draft. The scale changes how the motifs read — at under two square meters there is no room for a grand composition, so the drawing is dense and the whole thing works as one figure rather than as a field with a border around it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool from end to end, worked by hand in Türkiye, and old. The house keeps it in its rare-pieces list. Two square meters of flatweave weighs almost nothing, which is the argument for hanging it: on a wall the angular geometry of a kilim reads as the drawing it always was, and none of it wears. On a floor it wants a pad, because a small light flatweave slides. Have it cleaned by someone who handles old kilims; a domestic wash is not a smaller version of that job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, wool throughout, flat and pileless.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e95 × 184 cm (3'1\" × 6'0\"), under two square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnatolian motifs at a dense small scale, reading as a single figure.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSandık eskisi\u003c\/em\u003e — a dowry-chest piece rather than a floor piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLight enough to hang, and hanging is often the better use.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOn a floor it needs a pad; a small flatweave slides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCleaning by someone who works on old kilims.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo square meters is the size a weaver could finish between other work, which is why so much of the good drawing in Anatolia is on small pieces.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 95 X 184","offer_id":44224676954345,"sku":"MZTAND000008.01","price":22000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaEtnikTasarimliRengarenkYunKilim_1.jpg?v=1705996895"},{"product_id":"ikinci-el-klasik-krem-renk-cicek-desenli-el-dokuma-bunyan-hali","title":"Cream Floral Hand-Knotted Wool Bünyan Rug, Second-Hand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 308 × 420 cm (10'1\" × 13'9\") this is a room-sized hand-knotted Bünyan rug, cream-ground and covered edge to edge in small flowers, with an orange and salmon border closing it. Bünyan is a town near Kayseri in central Anatolia that has knotted rugs on cotton warps for generations. The rug is second-hand and in flawless condition, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ground is a light cream that keeps the surface bright, and the flowers worked across it are small and close-set rather than gathered around a medallion. Brown and blue do most of the drawing inside the blossoms; the border shifts into orange and salmon and gives the field a warm edge to stop against. Read from a doorway it holds together as one pale expanse. Up close it separates into several hundred individual flower heads, none of them quite matching its neighbor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton in the warp, wool in the weft, knotted in the Bünyan tradition that gives the rug its name. It is woven finer than most rugs of its kind, which is why a piece covering this much floor still lies flat and handles like a smaller one. It has had an owner before this one. We say so plainly, because it matters and because the condition is the surprising part — no wear to point at, no thinned patch, no repaired corner. It wants professional washing and nothing improvised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a Bünyan rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBünyan is a district of Kayseri in central Anatolia whose weavers knot rugs on cotton warps, usually in floral drawing over light grounds. The name records where and how a rug was made rather than naming one fixed design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does second-hand mean for a rug like this?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt means the rug had an owner before this one. It does not mean damage. This piece shows no wear, no repairs and no thinning, and the only real difference from new is that it has already settled and lies flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Bünyan, near Kayseri, on a cotton warp with wool weft.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCream ground carrying close-set floral drawing in brown and blue.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrange and salmon border framing the field on all four sides.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWoven finer than most Bünyan rugs of this scale, so it lies flatter and weighs less.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e308 × 420 cm (10'1\" × 13'9\") — it takes a twelve-seat dining table with the chairs pulled back, or a bed with room to walk around.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSecond-hand, with no faults we can find and no visible wear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA cream rug this large records everything that happens to it, which is the argument for buying one that has already come through a household intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is a Bünyan rug?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Bünyan is a district of Kayseri in central Anatolia whose weavers knot rugs on cotton warps, usually in floral drawing over light grounds. 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There is a single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA meter by a meter and a half is a doorway size, a bedside size, the piece a household made for itself rather than for a market. Village weaving of this kind has a quality that workshop weaving does not: nobody was standardizing it, so the motif count across the width is whatever fitted, and the border stops where the wool ran out. Colors sit side by side at full strength — that is what multicolored means here, several dyes competing rather than one leading. In a room with plain floors and not much else on them, one and a half square meters of this is enough to set the temperature of the whole space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool wefts, wool warps, nothing knotted and nothing raised. A flatweave is reversible by construction, and if one face has been walked on more than the other, turning it over is a legitimate repair. That is a piece of village practicality worth knowing about before spending anything on restoration. Age brings the usual: a slightly wandering edge, a corner that curls until it is weighted. Cleaning is a job for a kilim washer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in the villages around Mut, in Mersin province, southern Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool throughout, flat-woven, with neither pile nor knots.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e100 × 150 cm (3'3\" × 4'11\") — a doorway, a bedside, a small entrance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored Anatolian motifs, unstandardized: the count across the width is whatever fitted.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReversible by construction; a worn face can simply be turned over.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn older piece, with the curl and edge waver that follow.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a kilim cleaner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall village kilims outlive the households that made them by a long way, which is the only reason any of them reach a shop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 100 X 150","offer_id":44282755055849,"sku":"HALKLH000011.01","price":22000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkEtnikTasarimliKilim_1.jpg?v=1705497246"},{"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-kas-barak-desenli-rengarenk-kilim","title":"Barak Pattern Handwoven Wool Kilim, Orange and Plum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrange and plum lozenges, taking turns down the length of a beige ground, with long fringes left at both ends: a Barak-pattern kilim handwoven in wool in Türkiye, 157 × 283 cm (5'2\" × 9'3\"). Barak is a named Anatolian motif family rather than a place on this label, and the alternation of two saturated colors down a neutral field is its signature. A single old piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo colors alternating is a harder composition than it sounds. Orange and plum sit almost opposite each other in warmth, and a weaver holding them in sequence has to keep the beige ground wide enough between them or the two start to vibrate against each other along their shared edges. Here the ground has been left generous, so the lozenges read as separate events rather than as a single striped mass, and the beige — which is a color that does nothing on its own — turns out to be the element doing all the work. Under a warm bulb in the evening the orange comes forward and the plum goes almost brown; in flat daylight they trade places.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFlat-woven in wool, with no pile and nothing knotted, and the fringes at each end are the warp threads themselves rather than something added afterward. That is the plain test for a handwoven flatweave: on a machine-made piece the fringe is sewn on, and it can be pulled away from the body. These cannot. Long fringes tangle and mat, and they want combing out with fingers rather than a brush. Take the piece to a specialist for cleaning, and expect the usual signs of an older weaving at the selvedges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat is a Barak kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarak is a named Anatolian motif family, recognizable by rows of large lozenges in two alternating saturated colors set against a neutral ground. The name describes the drawing and the weaving tradition it comes from rather than a single town.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in Türkiye, flat-woven with no pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBarak-family drawing: orange and plum lozenges alternating on a beige ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e157 × 283 cm (5'2\" × 9'3\"), about four and a half square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe fringes are the warp threads themselves, not sewn on afterward.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe two colors change relationship between daylight and lamplight.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLong fringes mat over time and want combing out by hand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist cleaning; older selvedges will show their age.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece, and nothing else like it in this weave.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is a Barak kilim?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Barak is a named Anatolian motif family, recognizable by rows of large lozenges in two alternating saturated colors set against a neutral ground. 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It was kept folded in a chest between uses instead of left down, and there is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePurple is the awkward color in village weaving. It has no single reliable plant source in Anatolia the way red has madder and blue has indigo, so it tends to be built — overdyed, layered, arrived at rather than mixed — and no two weavers arrive at the same one. The consequence is visible along the length here: the purple is not one flat tone but a range of closely related ones, shifting where a new batch of yarn came onto the loom. That variation has a name in the trade, abrash, and on a piece like this it is the evidence that the dye was done in small lots by hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCotton warp, wool weft. The cotton keeps the rectangle honest and gives the selvedges something firm to close against, and the wool takes every color. Three square meters is a bedside, a study, a small sitting area, and at this weight the piece can be lifted and shaken out by one person, which is most of its practical maintenance. The rest is professional: a specialist kilim wash, occasionally, and nothing improvised in between. Purple is also the dye that will show sun damage first, so keep it off the strip of floor that gets direct afternoon light.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, wool wefts on a cotton warp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBarak arrangement of Anatolian motifs, carried in purple rather than the usual red.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e140 × 215 cm (4'7\" × 7'1\"), about three square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAbrash: the purple shifts tone along the length where the dye lot changed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA dowry-chest piece — age without heavy floor wear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePurple fades first under direct sun; keep it out of an afternoon light path.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOccasional specialist washing, and shaking out between times.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery purple in a village weaving was somebody's private recipe, and none of them were written down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 140 X 215","offer_id":44287455363305,"sku":"MZTBAR000005.01","price":45000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaYunAnadoluDesenliRengarenkKilim_1.jpg?v=1705997315"},{"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. 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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-desenli-rengarenk-mersin-mut-kilim","title":"Orange Anatolian Handwoven Wool Mut Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong and narrow — a hundred and thirty-one across and three hundred and thirteen down, which is 4'4\" × 10'3\" — and handwoven entirely in wool in the villages of Mut, in Mersin province. Orange leads the color and the rest of the Anatolian palette answers it. Flat-woven, no pile, old, and one of one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the shape of a corridor and of the strip beside a long kitchen counter, and it is also the shape of half a floor in a house where kilims were laid in pairs. Anything narrower than about a meter forty reads as a runner and behaves like one: it wants a straight run to sit in, and it will look wrong pushed under furniture in the middle of a room. Orange in a piece this shape does something specific — a narrow band of warm color draws the eye along its length, so a corridor treated this way feels longer rather than wider, which may be exactly what you want or exactly what you do not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool warp and wool weft, woven on a village loom. Mut kilims come from the country between the Mediterranean and the Taurus foothills, and the weaving there has stayed domestic rather than becoming a workshop trade. Long pieces take the most wear at the two ends, where people step onto them, so plan to turn it end for end. Underlay matters more on a narrow piece than a wide one, since there is less mass holding it down. Have it washed by a kilim cleaner and not otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in the villages around Mut, Mersin province.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e131 × 313 cm (4'4\" × 10'3\"), a corridor or counter-side proportion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrange-led, multicolored, with the Anatolian motif families across the length.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA warm narrow band draws the eye along, so a hall reads longer.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat-woven with no pile, and reversible.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWear concentrates at the two ends; turn it end for end periodically.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUnderlay is more necessary here than on a wide piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eKilim-cleaner washing. A single old piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNarrow kilims were made for houses laid out in corridors, and there are more of those now than there were twenty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 131 X 313","offer_id":44290430107881,"sku":"MZTKIL000033.01","price":73000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluDesenliRengarenkMersinMutKilim_1.jpg?v=1705998289"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-kula-hali","title":"Blue Hand-Knotted Wool Kula Rug, Anatolian Pattern","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKula is a town in Manisa province in western Anatolia, on the volcanic plateau east of İzmir, and it has given its name to a knotted rug type for centuries. This is one: hand-knotted wool pile on a cotton warp, 131 × 199 cm (4'4\" × 6'6\"), in a blue that sits between navy and mid-blue rather than settling on either. Old, and singular.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe color is the piece. A blue caught between two named blues is what happens when indigo is used at a strength the dyer judged by eye, and it behaves differently under different light: by a north window it goes cool and almost slate, and under a warm evening bulb it drops back toward navy and the pattern above it lifts. Anatolian motifs are set across the field in the Kula manner, drawn rather than blocked, and the ground carries them without competing. A blue field of this size is the easiest of all rugs to put into a room that already has too much going on, because it subtracts rather than adds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool pile knotted onto a cotton foundation. That is the standard Anatolian construction and it is a division of labor: cotton takes tension and keeps the rug square over decades, wool takes abrasion at the surface. Two and a half square meters of knotted pile is heavy for its size and it will not travel around the floor. It is old enough to have a low patch or two where the pile has worn shorter, which reads as a lighter area rather than as damage. Professional washing, once, and then leave it be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat distinguishes a Kula rug?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKula is a rug-weaving town in Manisa province, western Türkiye, and rugs made there are known for restrained drawing on deep grounds, with wool pile knotted onto a cotton foundation. The name refers to the town and its weaving tradition rather than to a single pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Kula, Manisa province, western Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile on a cotton foundation — cotton for tension, wool for wear.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e131 × 199 cm (4'4\" × 6'6\"), about two and a half square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA blue between navy and mid-blue, cool by north light and deeper under a lamp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAnatolian motifs drawn across the field in the Kula manner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOlder, with shorter pile in the places that were walked on.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What distinguishes a Kula rug?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Kula is a rug-weaving town in Manisa province, western Türkiye, and rugs made there are known for restrained drawing on deep grounds, with wool pile knotted onto a cotton foundation. 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It is offered as a second-hand piece, and there is exactly one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYahyalı rugs are among the better-known Anatolian village types, worked in a dense geometric field with red as the dominant ground, and they were made in quantity for domestic use rather than for export, which is why so many turn up used. Red here is not decorative — in the Anatolian palette it is the ground color that everything else is judged against, and a Yahyalı with a weak red is a Yahyalı that has spent too long in the sun. This one still carries the field at strength, with the rest of the colors reading as figures on it rather than as a competing scheme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHand-knotted wool pile, wool foundation, made in Türkiye. A used rug should be bought for what it is: the pile is shorter than it left the loom, and it is shorter unevenly, along the lines people walked. What that buys is a surface with no plushness left to lose and a drawing that has come closer to the foundation and therefore reads sharper. Check the fringes and the selvedges, which are where a used rug shows its history first. It should be professionally washed before it goes down, and after that it wants nothing but a vacuum.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Yahyalı, Kayseri province, central Türkiye; wool throughout.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e112 × 210 cm (3'8\" × 6'11\"), about two and a third square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA red-led Anatolian field with the other colors set as figures on it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOffered as a second-hand rug, stated plainly.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePile shortened unevenly by use, which makes the drawing read sharper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFringes and selvedges carry the visible history; inspect them first.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing before use, then vacuuming only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA rug that has already been lived on has done the part of its life that takes the longest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 112 X 210","offer_id":44290702573801,"sku":"MZTİKİ000004.01","price":47000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/IkinciElAnadoluDesenliElDokumaYahyaliRengarenkHali_1.jpg?v=1705997516"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-sivrihisar-yun-kilim","title":"Multicolor Anatolian Handwoven Wool Kilim, Sivrihisar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSivrihisar kilims carry a registered geographical indication, which ties the name in law to the district that makes them. This is one: handwoven wool, 183 × 391 cm (6'0\" × 12'10\"), multicolored, worked in traditional Anatolian motifs, and forty to fifty years old.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOrange leads, and red, green and cream answer it in bands and blocks that were never blended into a scheme — that is what the Turkish word rengarenk describes and what the kilim actually looks like. The motifs are the deep Anatolian ones, shapes that carry meaning in village weaving rather than serving as decoration, and they were set down by a weaver who knew them by heart. Nothing on this piece was worked from a paper cartoon, and the drawing wanders a little along its rows because of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt was woven in a village, by hand, entirely in wool, and it has spent four or five decades since. That age puts it in what the trade calls vintage — twenty to eighty years, a usage with no issuing authority behind it, unlike the geographical indication on its name. A long narrow piece like this suited a room shape common then, when a floor was laid with two or three kilims rather than one. Anything of this age wants professional washing and nothing improvised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat does a geographical indication mean on a kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is a legal registration binding a product name to the place that produces it, in the way Champagne is bound to Champagne. A Sivrihisar kilim registered this way has to be woven in that district to carry the name at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in the Sivrihisar district, whose kilims hold a registered geographical indication.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool throughout, flat-woven, with no pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eForty to fifty years old — vintage by trade usage, which no authority issues.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOrange-led multicolored bands carrying traditional Anatolian motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWorked from memory rather than from a drawing, so the motifs shift slightly along their rows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e183 × 391 cm (6'0\" × 12'10\"): long and narrow, made for a corridor or a floor laid with more than one piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty years of use are already inside it, which is the reason it will take forty more without changing much.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What does a geographical indication mean on a kilim?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"It is a legal registration binding a product name to the place that produces it, in the way Champagne is bound to Champagne. 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There is one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFloral drawing in a flatweave is a contradiction the weaver has to solve. A kilim builds its pattern from wefts meeting along vertical lines, which produces steps and angles naturally and curves only with difficulty, so a flower in this technique is assembled out of small stepped blocks that resolve into a petal at a distance and dissolve into geometry up close. Karabagh weaving has a long habit of doing this, and the red and black here give the flowers a ground dark enough that the stepping does not read as roughness. Stand back and it is a garden; kneel down and it is arithmetic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll wool, flat-woven, with the same face on both sides. Six and a half square meters of kilim is a full living-room floor and it weighs a fraction of what a knotted rug that size would, which is the practical reason kilims traveled with people at all. Age and travel leave marks: expect repairs at the ends, a seam where two halves were joined if the loom was narrower than the piece, and edges that have been rebound. None of that is damage in a weaving of this kind, and all of it is worth looking at closely before deciding. Washing by someone who works on old flatweaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in Karabagh, flat-woven with no pile.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e209 × 312 cm (6'10\" × 10'3\"), over six and a half square meters.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA floral field led by red and black, built from stepped blocks rather than curves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA \u003cem\u003egöçmen\u003c\/em\u003e or émigré kilim — it moved with the household that owned it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eReversible, and light for its size; kilims traveled because of that.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eExpect end repairs, rebound edges, and possibly a center seam.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by someone experienced with old flatweaves.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece, and no other like it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKilims of this size were the one large thing a family could roll up and carry, and this one has the marks of having been carried.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 209 X 312","offer_id":44332187648233,"sku":"HALKLH000001.01","price":74000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaCicekDesenliRengarenkGocmenKilimi_2.jpg?v=1705492879"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-yahyali-anadolu-desenli-rengarenk-hali","title":"Multicolor Yahyalı Hand-Knotted Wool Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYahyalı sits in the mountains south of Kayseri, and the rug that carries its name is one of the most recognizable drawings in central Anatolia. This is a hand-knotted Yahyalı rug in wool, 108 × 194 cm (3'7\" × 6'4\"), woven in Türkiye, multicolored, with the district's stepped geometry running the length of the field.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawing is geometric rather than floral — angular repeats and a stepped central form, with a border that runs a smaller version of the same logic around the edge. Color is recorded on this piece only as rengarenk, multicolored, which is the honest description: no single tone takes charge, and the ones doing most of the work are the reds and blues that Yahyalı weaving has always leaned on. In a hallway with one lamp they settle rather than argue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye, wool from the pile down to the last row of the foundation. The house files it among its rare pieces, and it is old rather than new. Nothing on it was drawn on paper first: the medallion sits a knot or two off center and the two ends of the border do not close identically, which is the ordinary evidence of a weaver working from memory. Take it to a rug washer; nothing improvised at home will do the job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye, in the Yahyalı pattern of the Kayseri highlands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool throughout — pile and foundation both.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eGeometric field with a stepped central form and a repeating border.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored, with red and blue doing most of the work.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e108 × 194 cm (3'7\" × 6'4\") — an entrance, a bedside, or the floor beside a desk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAn older piece, held in the rare-pieces group rather than the current ranges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashing by a rug specialist.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne of one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs of this drawing were made to be walked on for a generation before anyone thought of them as old, and this one is only partway through that.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 108 X 194","offer_id":44397863043305,"sku":"MZTYAH000002.01","price":58500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaEtnikTasarimliYagcibedirDesenliKirmiziHali_1_c232d0ad-b287-4693-88d6-cd4a7eb5a66b.jpg?v=1706022088"},{"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-anadolu-barak-desenli-rengarenk-kilim","title":"Multicolor Barak Handwoven Wool Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarak is a design family before it is anything else — the name belongs to a community of southeastern Anatolia, and its kilims are known for large, blunt geometry rather than fine drawing. This is a handwoven wool Barak kilim, 147 × 280 cm (4'10\" × 9'2\"), multicolored, woven in Türkiye and stored rather than used.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBlunt is not a criticism. Barak weaving works at a scale readable from the doorway, with motifs sized to be seen across a room instead of examined at arm's length, and that decision is what makes a narrow, long proportion hold together rather than turning into a strip of pattern. The store records the color as rengarenk: many of them, none appointed to lead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye in wool, flat, with no pile at all. In a kilim the weft is beaten down hard until the cloth is itself the design, and nothing stands above the surface to wear away, which is one reason a flatweave takes hard use differently from a knotted rug. This one has not had the chance to prove it, since it went into a chest instead of onto a floor. Give it to a washer who knows old flatweaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in Türkiye, wool throughout, in the Barak design family of southeastern Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat-woven — weft beaten over warp, nothing standing above the surface.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eLarge-scale geometry drawn to be read from across the room.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored, with no single tone given the lead.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e147 × 280 cm (4'10\" × 9'2\"): a long proportion for a hallway or the length of a bed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-kept; colors intact, surface unworn.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashed by hand, professionally.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA kilim like this was made to be rolled up and carried, and it is still light enough that you could.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 147 X 280","offer_id":44411934114025,"sku":"MZTAND000003.01","price":74000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaAnadoluBarakDesenliRengarenkKilim_1.jpg?v=1705935276"},{"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-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":"anadolu-desenli-el-dokuma-kilim-118","title":"Multicolor Karapınar Handwoven Wool Kilim Pillow Cover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKarapınar is a district on the Konya plain with a weaving name of its own, and this is a small piece of it: a handwoven wool kilim, 53 × 92 cm (1'9\" × 3'0\"), multicolored, kept in a chest, and sized to become a cushion face, a doorway mat or a hanging.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmall flatweaves like this were not usually made as objects in their own right. A section of a larger weaving, a bag face, a trial run at the start of a floor kilim — the size is a by-product of household weaving, and the pattern on it is a fragment of a bigger vocabulary rather than a finished composition. It reads as a fragment, and that is the honest way to look at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in wool in Türkiye, flat, no pile. At 53 cm across there is very little width to work with, so a weaver either simplifies the drawing or lets it run past the edge; either choice reads as confidence rather than compromise once the piece is on a wall. It has never been used, so the wool still has its loom firmness. It should be cleaned by hand, professionally.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool at Karapınar, in the Konya plain country.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat-woven with no pile; multicolored, in the region's motif vocabulary.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e53 × 92 cm (1'9\" × 3'0\") — cushion face, small mat, or a hanging.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eChest-kept, with the color still at full strength.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBack it with a lining if it becomes a cushion.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFirm and unyielding until it has been handled for a while.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand cleaning, by a professional.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHalf a meter of Karapınar tells you more about the region than a photograph of a whole floor would.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 53 X 92","offer_id":44784363503849,"sku":"HALKIL000043.01","price":8400.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/EtnikTasarimliAnadoluDesenliRengarenkElDokumaKilim_2.jpg?v=1705491334"},{"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":"otantik-desenli-sahseven-el-dokuma-kilim","title":"Multicolor Shahsevan Soumak Kilim in Wool and Silk","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSoumak is not the same thing as a kilim, though it is sold as one: the weft is wrapped around the warp threads instead of passed straight through them, which produces a raised, ribbed, almost braided surface. This is a handwoven Shahsevan soumak in wool with silk, 114 × 198 cm (3'9\" × 6'6\"), multicolored, made in the Middle East.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShahsevan drawing is close-packed and small in scale — hooked medallions, stars and stepped forms in tight rows — and soumak is the technique that can carry it, because a wrapped weft draws a fine line where a flat one draws a stepped block. The silk is not the whole surface: it goes in where a highlight is wanted, and it announces itself by catching light in a straight line down the ribs while the wool around it stays matt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHandwoven in wool with silk. Soumak takes considerably longer than plain flatweaving, because each pass has to be wound rather than thrown, and the back is left thick with the loose ends of every color change, which is how a soumak is identified at a glance. The technique produces a piece with no pile and real weight in the hand. Silk in the yarn means a specialist wash; ordinary rug cleaning will dull it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eHow do you tell a soumak from a kilim?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurn it over. A kilim looks much the same on both faces, because the weft passes straight through the warp. A soumak has a front of tight raised ribs and a back thick with the tails left at every color change, and it is noticeably heavier in the hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in the Middle East in wool, with silk worked into the highlights.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSoumak construction: the weft is wrapped around the warp, not passed through it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFront of tight raised ribs; back thick with the tails of every color change.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eShahsevan drawing — hooked medallions, stars and stepped forms in close rows.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSilk catches light along the ribs while the wool beside it stays matt.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e114 × 198 cm (3'9\" × 6'6\") — a study, a bedside, or a wall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSlower to weave than a flat kilim, and heavier for its size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSilk content means a specialist wash; ordinary rug cleaning dulls it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSoumak is the technique weavers used when the drawing mattered more than the hours, and that decision is still readable in the piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cscript type=\"application\/ld+json\"\u003e{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How do you tell a soumak from a kilim?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Turn it over. 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This is one of their rugs: hand-knotted in wool, red-ground, drawn in the angular Anatolian manner, 138 × 235 cm (4'6\" × 7'9\"), and old enough that Halıcızade files it with the rare pieces.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRed is the ground, and village reds are rarely one flat tone. Yarn dyed in small lots takes color a little differently from batch to batch, and the horizontal bands of shifting shade this produces have a name in the trade: abrash. The drawing over it is angular rather than curved, because a pattern counted out in knotted rows cannot make a smooth arc. Every figure is a shape a weaver could carry in memory and set down again a hundred rows later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool, knotted by hand, made in Türkiye. Old is what the house says, and old is all anyone can honestly say — in the trade, antique starts at a hundred years, semi-antique covers fifty up to a hundred, and vintage runs from twenty to eighty, with nobody anywhere issuing a certificate for any of it. What can be seen is the wear: a rug that has been walked on has a pile that lies down and a sheen new wool does not have. It is listed among the rare pieces because there is one of it, because it is not being made again, and because Yörük weaving of this kind has been leaving Anatolia for two generations. Professional washing, and nothing improvised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in wool on the Çukurova plain around Adana, in southern Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRed ground with angular Anatolian figures, drawn in the Yörük manner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e138 × 235 cm (4'6\" × 7'9\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eListed by the house as old and as one of its rare pieces; no date is claimed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTrade age words — antique, semi-antique, vintage — have no issuing authority behind them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAbrash, the shift of tone between dye lots, is the mark of hand-dyed village wool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA single rug, with nothing else like it in the catalog.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne life on a southern floor is already behind it, and a second will not finish it off either.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 138 X 235","offer_id":45146837385449,"sku":"MZTADN000001.01","price":64000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluDesenliElDokumaHali_1.jpg?v=1705931487"},{"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. 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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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Sheep's wool spun for a village loom is not uniform, and that is the point of it — the pile takes light unevenly, so a band of mustard will look like two half-tones of mustard according to where you are standing. Nothing about the piece is regular in the way a machine is regular, and those small drifts in the drawing are what separate a village piece from a copy of one. It wants professional washing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven in wool in Anatolia, in the Sivas Zara manner of the Anadolu Şal Series.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNarrow color bands running the length of the field, each with its own small figures.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e125 × 190 cm (4'1\" × 6'3\").\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDrawn after Anatolian shawls, and the series is named for them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eVillage-spun wool takes light unevenly, so each color reads as two.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHeld among the house's older and rarer stock.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs like this were woven to be looked at from the floor, sitting down, and that is still the best way to see one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 125 X 190","offer_id":45224908390633,"sku":"MZTSAL000004.01","price":59000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluSalSerisiSivasZaraDesenliElDokumaYunHali_1.jpg?v=1706020268"},{"product_id":"sal-desenli-el-dokuma-taspinar-hali","title":"Multicolor Shawl-Pattern Handwoven Wool Rug, Anadolu Şal Series","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt 108 × 161 cm (3'7\" × 5'3\") this is a small rug, drawn as one: a handwoven wool piece in the shawl pattern of the Anadolu Şal Series, multicolored, made at Taşpınar in Türkiye. Small rugs make a pattern work harder, because there is no room in which to lose a figure. A single piece.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaşpınar is a village in Aksaray province on the central Anatolian plateau, and its name has been a rug name for generations. The shawl drawing it carries here is banded rather than centered — no medallion, no open field, just color against color along the length of the piece with small figures running down each band. In a rug this size the bands sit close together, so from a distance the effect is of a woven textile laid flat rather than of a rug with a pattern on it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool, handwoven in Anatolia. Village looms are narrow, and 108 cm across is about the width one weaver can reach without help, which is part of why so much Anatolian weaving comes in this size and why it is the size that ends up at a bed's foot or in front of a hearth. The color will not be uniform under close inspection: hand-spun wool takes dye at its own rate, and those small variations are the difference between this and a printed copy of it. Washing is a job for a specialist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven wool, made at Taşpınar in Aksaray province, central Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e108 × 161 cm (3'7\" × 5'3\") — bedside, hearth, or a narrow entrance.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA banded shawl drawing, multicolored, with small figures on every band.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003ePart of the Anadolu Şal Series, named after the shawls the pattern comes from.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-spun wool means small variations of tone across the field.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne piece at this size.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRugs this size get carried from room to room for years before they finally settle somewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 108 X 161","offer_id":45280712818921,"sku":"MZTTAS000008.01","price":40500.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/AnadoluSalSerisiSivasZaraDesenliElDokumaYunHali_1_c7c81cbb-3cb2-4932-a3c1-9a2363abef47.jpg?v=1706021065"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-yun-anadolu-kilim","title":"Multicolor Anatolian Handwoven Wool Sivrihisar Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSivrihisar is a town in Eskişehir province in western central Anatolia, and its name — pointed fortress — comes from the rocks standing above it. This is one of its kilims: handwoven in wool, multicolored, 152 × 350 cm (5'0\" × 11'6\"), and old enough that the house keeps it with the rare stock. One piece, and a large one.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree and a half meters of flatweave is a room-sized kilim, and room-sized kilims were never woven casually — a loom that wide takes two weavers working across from one another, and the drawing has to be agreed before the first row goes down. What comes off it is a floor covering with the weight of a rug and the thinness of a cloth. The color runs multi throughout rather than settling into a single ground, which is characteristic of the older Anatolian pieces, where whatever wool had been dyed went into the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool, handwoven, and worn the way a used kilim is worn: the pile that a knotted rug has to lose is not there to begin with, so age shows in the softening of the weave and the settling of the color rather than in bare patches. Halıcızade lists it among the rare pieces. Trade age words are loose — antique means a hundred years and up, semi-antique fifty to a hundred, vintage twenty to eighty, and no authority anywhere issues a certificate for any of them. What is certain is that nobody is weaving this size by hand in these numbers again. It needs a professional wash and a flat floor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHandwoven wool kilim from Sivrihisar, Eskişehir province, Türkiye.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e152 × 350 cm (5'0\" × 11'6\") — a sitting room, a long landing, or a wide hall.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMulticolored throughout, in the older Anatolian manner.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat-woven: no pile, and both faces usable.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eIt sits in the house's rare and older stock.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAge terms in the trade carry no issuing authority behind them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eProfessional washing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKilims this size used to be ordinary, which is the only reason one this good can still be found.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Colorful \/ 152 X 350","offer_id":45468387475689,"sku":"HALKIL000052.01","price":82000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaYunAnadoluKilim_2.jpg?v=1705492102"},{"product_id":"el-dokuma-cok-renkli-anadolu-cicim-kilim","title":"Multicolor Anatolian Cicim Handwoven Wool Kilim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCicim is not the flat part of a kilim but the raised part: threads wrapped around the warps while the ground is being woven, so the motifs stand above the surface. 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":"otantik-desenli-el-dokuma-kirmizi-yun-hali","title":"Red Hand-Knotted Wool Konya Karapınar Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKarapınar is a district on the southern edge of the Konya plain, and its weaving is known for red grounds and a hard, dry wool. This is a hand-knotted Karapınar rug in that tradition: wool surface, wool foundation, 138 × 205 cm (4'6\" × 6'9\"), red-dominant, listed by the house under rare pieces. It is not new work.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWool over wool is the older construction and the less common one now. A cotton foundation gives a flatter, more regular back and is cheaper to build, which is why nearly everything made today uses one; wool over wool gives a rug that flexes, lies a little unevenly, and wears down slowly. The Konya plain is high, dry sheep country, and the fleece off it is coarse and lustrous rather than soft — the reason a Karapınar piece feels firm underfoot rather than plush.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVillage work of this kind carries no signature and no weave number, so all the evidence is in the rug itself: the knotting, the wool, and the way the red has moved across the field. Expect abrash, the tonal drift you get when one dye lot runs out mid-rug and the next is a shade off, and read it as the record of the weaving rather than as a fault. A rug of this age should be cleaned by somebody who washes rugs for a living and by nobody else.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in the Karapınar district of Konya, central Anatolia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWool pile over a wool foundation, which is the older village construction.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eRed-dominant field in the authentic Anatolian drawing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e138 × 205 cm (4'6\" × 6'9\") — an entrance hall, a study, or a wide landing.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOlder work, and part of the house's rare-pieces holding.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eAbrash across the ground is expected and is part of how the piece is read.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpecialist washing only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eOne rug. There is no second.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt has already outlasted the room it was woven for, and it will outlast this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"Red \/ 138 X 205","offer_id":47352494751977,"sku":"MZTKON000010.01","price":76000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/OtantikDesenliElDokumaKirmiziYunHali_1.jpg?v=1706017249"},{"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-vintage-desenli-bej-yun-hali","title":"Beige Vintage Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool and Silk Rug","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTurn it over and there is a tuğra woven into the back, the seal Has Halı puts on its own work. Beige Vintage Oushak Hand-Knotted Wool and Silk Rug, 181 × 252 cm (5'11\" × 8'3\"), knotted in Türkiye: a beige ground carrying red-toned block motifs drawn from Uşak, spaced widely enough to read as modern. There is one of it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOushak — Uşak, in western Türkiye — has been drawing this family of forms for centuries, and what has been done here is to lift the blocks out of their crowded historical setting and leave ground around them. The red is not one red: it moves through brick and rust because the wool takes dye differently from row to row. Silk is used only inside the figures, so the pattern lifts under a window and settles again under lamplight while the beige stays exactly where it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe pile is Erzurum fleece, wool with enough of its own oil left in it to grow brighter as it is walked on rather than duller. The knot is the Gördes knot — symmetrical, tied over two warp threads — which is slower to work and is why a motif edge here stays sharp instead of blurring. Has Halı is one of the larger Turkish makers and the tuğra on the reverse is how its work is told apart from imitations. Silk in a pile rules out home cleaning entirely, so the washing goes to someone equipped for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHand-knotted in Türkiye by Has Halı, sealed with the maker's tuğra on the reverse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eErzurum fleece in the ground; silk confined to the motifs.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUşak block motifs, redrawn with open ground between them.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe red shifts between brick and rust from row to row.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTied with the Gördes knot, over two warps at a time.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003e181 × 252 cm (5'11\" × 8'3\") — a living room or a large bedroom.\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWashed only by a specialist equipped for silk.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKept properly it will outlast the room it is bought for, and the silk will still be doing its work when the walls have been repainted twice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HALICIZADE","offers":[{"title":"bey \/ 181 X 252","offer_id":46164160250089,"sku":"OZLKOL000014.01","price":345000.0,"currency_code":"TRY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/files\/ElDokumaVintageDesenliIpekliYunHali_1.jpg?v=1706024159"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0565\/9682\/4258\/collections\/76_kopyasi-removebg-preview.png?v=1784440631","url":"https:\/\/www.halicizade.com\/en\/collections\/rare-rugs.oembed?page=4","provider":"HALICIZADE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}