Kelim Pillow Yahya 40x40cm
Kelim Pillow Yahya 40x40cm
Wild Heart Free Soul
Kastanienallee 55
10119 Berlin
Germany
A unique piece made from a vintage Kilim – Anatolian craftsmanship for your home
With this unique Kilim pillow, you bring a piece of history and individuality into your home. The front is made from an original Anatolian vintage Kilim, hand-woven in the mid-20th century.
- Dimensions: 40 x 40 cm
- Front Material: 100% sheep's wool – soft, warm, and durable
- Back Material: 100% cotton – high-quality and pleasant
The vibrant colors and geometric patterns of Anatolian Kilims create a unique atmosphere and bring cultural heritage to any space. Each pattern tells its own story and brings the tradition and symbolism of Anatolia into your home.
Note: The cushion is delivered without filling. A suitable filling cushion can be ordered separately here.
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The traditional and timeless patterns of Anatolia make our vintage cushions very special. These are the meaningful symbols of a millennia-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 atelier 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 inevitable in unique, handmade vintage rugs. The back is made of recycled cotton and features a zipper.
Anatolian kilims are far more than mere textile utility items – they are woven memories, personal messages, and expressions of a living 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 was also 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 tones the traces of a cultural transition: between old and new, craftsmanship 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 such as 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 one day saw the light again.
Today, we clean and restore these pieces with the greatest respect: washed with olive soap, dried in the sun of Antalya, repaired in our Istanbul atelier.
Some pieces are with us for only a few months, others accompany us for years – because we rush nothing. Every kilim is restored with time, care, and respect. Some await the right restorer, the summer months to bathe in the sunlight – for their quiet 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 attentively, it can outlast many more generations. It doesn't require elaborate care, but rather the right kind of care.
We recommend gently vacuuming or shaking out the 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 hand-held device. Too frequent, intensive vacuuming can fatigue the fibers over time.
Every few months, it's worth turning the kilim over and vacuuming the back as well. If you rotate the rug slightly once a year, you ensure even wear and maintain the balance in the weave.
For deep cleaning, we recommend a professional hand wash every 3 to 5 years – with pH-neutral shampoo or olive soap, gently worked in by hand and thoroughly rinsed. Please never put your kilim in dry cleaning or steam cleaning – this would damage the fibers. If you need assistance in choosing a suitable cleaner, we will be 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: blot fresh stains immediately with a clean, dry cloth. If necessary, 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 fibers 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.