Red Geometric Handwoven Wool Kilim, Studio Potato Liber

Liber was the Roman god of wine, and the kilim that carries his name was drawn in a wine cellar: a handwoven wool kilim in reds and black, flat-woven on a loom in Türkiye, its geometry built from shapes that each stand for a single grape. Every piece in the run is different from the next. The design works only in red.

01Color that shifts through the day

Grape skins are not one color and never were, so the studio held to a single hue and let its tones do the separating — deep, dried, bruised, bright — with black carrying the outlines between them. Read singly the shapes are grapes; read together they close into one field.

02Coming off the loom

The one structural joke is at the ends: the fringes are on the long edges rather than the short ones, where a kilim has put them for as long as anyone has been weaving them, because the design is about possibility rather than about where a thing is supposed to stop. It is flat-woven, which means there is no pile at all — warp and weft only, wool throughout, worked on a loom by women weaving in their own villages across Türkiye.

03From the hand of the weaver

A kilim is thinner and firmer underfoot than a knotted rug and it will slide on a bare floor without a pad beneath it. One more thing worth saying plainly: because each is woven singly, the piece that arrives will not match the photograph knot for knot, and that is the point of buying one. Flat-woven by hand on a loom in Türkiye, entirely in wool. Designed by Studio Potato and named for Liber, the Roman god of wine. Reds throughout, with black drawing the shapes apart. Every geometric form on it stands for one grape. Fringes run along the long edges, not the short ones. Woven by women in villages across the country, one piece at a time. It will differ from the photograph; no two are alike. Professional cleaning, and nothing improvised at home. Flat weaves get thinner and better with walking, and this one has the color to survive the process.