Vintage Kurdish Herki Runner charcoal This flatweave kilim is incredible

This flatweave kilim is incredible quality with beautiful geometrical motifs and an interesting colourway

Size: 316 x 240 cm | 10'4" x 7'10"

The designs are angular and geometric by nature

Tabriz weavers were commissioned to produce rugs for royal palaces and important holy sites

The designs are intricate and repeating

Vintage Kurdish Herki Runner charcoal This flatweave kilim is incredibleThe Herki are one of the largest Kurdish tribes, leading a nomadic and semi nomadic lifestyle across the mountainous borderlands of Turkey, Iran and Iraq. These runners come from Turkey, woven by Herki weavers carrying a tribal tradition that has never been formalised or institutionalised. There are no workshops, no pattern books. The designs are bold geometric medallions, hooked lozenges, stepped hexagons and tribal symbols, all come from memory and