Vintage Kilim Cannakale 210x159cm

Anatolian flat-woven kilim rug made of hand-spun sheep wool. Unique vintage piece with collector's value!

Selected by Wild Heart Free Soul according to the highest quality standards, naturally cleaned with the power of the sun and professionally restored.

Age-related patina and natural irregularities are characteristic of our handmade vintage rugs.

• Material: 100% hand-spun sheep wool, highest quality
• Workmanship: Flat-woven by hand on a traditional, horizontal wooden loom
• Age: Semi-antique. Approx. 1960-1970
• Condition: Vintage in like-new quality due to extensive cleaning and restoration process
• Origin: Canakkale, West Anatolia
• Size: 210 x 159cm, Height: 3mm

Anatolian kilims are far more than mere textile objects – they are woven memories, personal messages, and expressions 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 symbolism.

This kilim was also woven in an Anatolian home – from the wool of their own sheep, shorn, washed, carded, 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 one day came back into the light.

Today, we clean and restore these pieces with the utmost respect: washed with olive soap, dried in the Antalya sun, repaired in our Istanbul atelier.

Some pieces are with us for only a few months, others accompany us for years – because we don't rush anything. Each 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 legacy. A woven wish.
And perhaps a companion for your home of tomorrow.

Anatolian kilims are far more than mere textile objects – they are woven memories, personal messages, and expressions 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 symbolism.

This kilim was also woven in an Anatolian home – from the wool of their own sheep, shorn, washed, carded, 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 one day came back into the light.

Today, we clean and restore these pieces with the utmost respect: washed with olive soap, dried in the Antalya sun, repaired in our Istanbul atelier.

Some pieces are with us for only a few months, others accompany us for years – because we don't rush anything. Each 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 legacy. A woven wish.
And perhaps a companion for your home of tomorrow.

Material

Sheep wool is a natural and very high-quality material. All our carpets are woven from hand-spun sheep wool yarn, which consists of long hairs and has a very high lanolin (wool grease) content. This allows Free Soul customers discounted conditions for carpet cleaning and repair