Blue Plain Loom-Woven Wool Kilim, Bohem Series

Blue Plain Loom-Woven Wool Kilim, Bohem Series — a flatweave in wool and cotton with no pile on it and no figure in it, woven in Türkiye, 219 × 300 cm (7'2" × 9'10"). A kilim is woven rather than knotted, so the thing underfoot is the structure itself and not a surface laid over one.

01How many centimeters, which room

Six and a half square meters, and one of them. Plain in a kilim is not the same proposition as plain in a pile rug. With no pile to break the light there is nothing to soften the color, so the blue arrives flat and whole, and the only variation in it comes from the yarn: a dye lot that shifts between skeins reads as faint horizontal banding across the width.

02From the hand of the weaver

Weavers call that abrash, and on an undecorated ground it is the entire visual event. Under a warm bulb the blue moves toward slate; by north daylight it comes back to itself. Made on a loom in Türkiye out of wool and cotton. Loom-woven is the middle construction — the frame of the cloth is set on a loom instead of being tied row by row by hand, which is why a flatweave this wide stays even across its whole span. Two things to know before it goes down.

A kilim has no pile to absorb impact, so on a hard floor it wants an underlay or it will travel; and anything heavy standing on it leaves a compression mark that takes weeks to lift. Cleaning belongs to a specialist. Loom-woven in Türkiye; wool and cotton, flatwoven with no pile. An undecorated blue ground; abrash from the dye lot is the only figure on it. 219 × 300 cm (7'2" × 9'10"). Blue reads toward slate under warm light and returns under daylight. On a hard floor it needs an underlay, or it will slide. Furniture leaves compression marks that take time to rise. Professional washing. One piece. A plain kilim is what you put down when the room already has enough happening in it.