Kelim Cushion Lara 50x30cm
A Unique Piece from a Vintage Kilim – Anatolian Craftsmanship for Your Home
With this unique decorative cushion, you bring a piece of history and individuality into your home. The front was made from a 60-80 year old, original Anatolian vintage kilim, hand-woven in the mid-20th century.
Each pattern tells its own story and brings the tradition and symbolism of Anatolia into your home.
- Dimensions: 50 x 30 cm
- Front Material: 100% sheep's wool – soft, warm, and durable
- Back Material: 100% cotton – high-quality and comfortable
The vibrant colors and geometric patterns of the kilim lend a unique atmosphere to any room and bring cultural heritage to every space.
Note: The cushion is delivered without filling. A suitable filling cushion can be ordered separately here.
Each cushion is unique and highlights your individual style.
Kelim Cushion Lara 50x30cm
Wild Heart Free Soul
Kastanienallee 55
10119 Berlin
Germany
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The traditional and timeless patterns of Anatolia make our vintage cushions very special. They are the meaningful symbols of a thousands-year-old nomadic tradition, intended to bless the home and its inhabitants with love, blessings, and protection. High-quality materials such as hand-spun sheep's wool, goat hair, or cotton ensure a high-quality, durable product. This cushion cover was lovingly sewn in our Wild Heart Free Soul studio in Istanbul from a fragment of a hand-woven vintage kilim. The kilim was professionally cleaned before processing, but age-related wear and natural irregularities are unavoidable with unique, handmade vintage rugs. The back is made of recycled cotton and features a zipper.
Anatolian kilims are far more than mere textile objects – they are woven memories, personal messages, and an expression of a lived culture. For generations, women from nomadic tribes and villages wove their wishes, hopes, and stories into the fabric – freely, intuitively, and full of symbolic power.
This kilim, too, was woven in an Anatolian home – from the wool of their own sheep, shorn, washed, combed, and hand-spun. The yarns were often dyed with natural pigments from madder, weld, walnut, or indigo – but from the 1950s onwards, synthetic dyes increasingly found their way into the villages. The world became faster, more colorful – not every kilim remained purely vegetable-dyed. Many pieces from the 1960s and 1970s bear in their hues the traces of a cultural transition: between old and new, craft and modernity.
Weaving was a ritual act – accompanied by songs, stories, silence. Often, several women sat together at the loom: mother, grandmother, sister, neighbor. Every knot, every line, every symbol carried meaning – protection, fertility, connection, strength. Symbols like the eye (Göz), the cosmic mother (Elibelinde), or the scorpion became carriers of deep messages.
They were used, loved, passed down – and some of them slept for a long time in chests until they reappeared one day.
Today, we clean and restore these pieces with the utmost respect: washed with olive soap, dried in the Antalya sun, repaired in our Istanbul studio.
Some pieces are with us for only a few months, others accompany us for years – because we don't rush anything. Every kilim is restored with time, care, and respect. Some await the right restorer, the summer months to bask in the sunlight – for their silent transformation back into a living work of art.
A kilim from Wild Heart Free Soul is not a product.
It is a heritage. A woven wish.
And perhaps a companion for your home of tomorrow.
A kilim is a long-lasting companion – if treated with love and cared for thoughtfully, it can outlast many generations. It doesn't require elaborate care, but above all, the right kind of care.
We recommend gently vacuuming or shaking out your kilim once or twice a month to remove dust and dirt. Please do not use a rotary vacuum cleaner for this, but ideally a brush attachment or a gentle handheld device. Too frequent, intensive vacuuming can eventually tire out the fibres.
Every few months, it's worth turning the kilim over and vacuuming the back as well. If you gently rotate the rug once a year, it ensures even wear and maintains the balance in the weave.
For basic cleaning, we recommend professional hand washing every 3 to 5 years – with pH-neutral shampoo or olive soap, gently worked in by hand and thoroughly rinsed. Please never dry clean or steam clean your kilim – this would damage the fibres. If you need help choosing a suitable cleaner, we are happy to advise you. We work with experienced oriental rug specialists and are happy to pass on our special conditions.
And if an accident does happen: Dab fresh stains immediately with a clean, dry cloth. If necessary, you can carefully dab with a little olive soap and a slightly damp cloth – without rubbing, without soaking. For stubborn dirt, please consult a specialist directly. Liquid that spreads along the fibres can be permanently trapped, especially in flat weaves.
Dried food residues can usually be carefully scraped off or brushed out – ideally with a steady hand and without haste.