Multicolor Striped Konya Handwoven Wool Kilim

Çubuklu means barred, and that is the entire design of this Konya kilim: bands of color crossing the width, one after another, for the whole three meters seventy-six of its length. Handwoven in wool, 152 × 376 cm (5'0" × 12'4"), multicolored, made in Türkiye, and out of a dowry chest. A banded kilim has nothing to hide behind, so all of its quality is in the color order: which band follows which, how wide each one is allowed to be, and where the run is broken.

Get that right and the piece works from every angle in the room; get it wrong and it reads as fabric sold by the meter. At this length the sequence has to hold for a long way, which is the harder version of the problem. Handwoven in wool in the Konya region, flat, with the weft driven home over the warp until the cloth is the pattern and nothing rises above it.

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A piece nearly four meters long was woven for a room covered by more than one kilim — the way an Anatolian floor was dressed before a single large rug became the expectation. It is unused, and it will want a professional wash and a week or two of weight before it lies down properly. Handwoven in wool in the Konya region of central Türkiye. Çubuklu — barred: bands of color across the width, and no other motif. Flat-woven and weft-faced, with no pile and a reverse close to the front. 152 × 376 cm (5'0" × 12'4"): a long hall, or one of two or three pieces covering a large floor. Multicolored, with the whole effect resting on the order of the bands. Chest-stored, so the colors are where the weaver put them. Professional washing, then time under furniture to flatten. A single piece; nothing is woven to match it. Four meters of kilim is a commitment to a room's proportions, and rooms with those proportions are rarer than the kilims that fit them.