Vintage Kilim, Konya 203 x 164 cm
Vintage Kilim, Konya 203 x 164 cm
Wild Heart Free Soul
Kastanienallee 55
10119 Berlin
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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 handcrafted vintage rugs.
- Material: 100% hand-spun sheep wool, highest quality
- Workmanship: Flat-woven by hand on traditional, horizontal wooden loom
- Age: Semi-antique. Approx 1960-1970
- Condition: Vintage in mint condition due to extensive cleaning and restoration process
- Origin: Konya, Anatolia
- Size: 203 x 164 cm, Height: 3 mm
Anatolian kilims are far more than mere textile objects – they are woven memories, personal messages, and expressions of 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 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 plant-dyed. Many pieces from the 1960s and 1970s bear in their tones the traces of a cultural transition: between old and new, craft and modernity.
Weaving was a ritualistic 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 on – 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 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 never rush anything. Each kilim is restored with time, care, and respect. Some wait for the right restorer, for the summer months to bathe 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.
Anatolian kilims are far more than mere textile objects – they are woven memories, personal messages, and expressions of 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 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 plant-dyed. Many pieces from the 1960s and 1970s bear in their tones the traces of a cultural transition: between old and new, craft and modernity.
Weaving was a ritualistic 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 on – 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 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 never rush anything. Each kilim is restored with time, care, and respect. Some wait for the right restorer, for the summer months to bathe 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.
MATERIAL
Sheep's wool is a natural and very high-quality material. All our rugs are woven from hand-spun sheep's wool yarn, which consists of long hairs and has a very high lanolin (wool grease) content. This makes the wool particularly dirt-resistant, water-repellent, and antibacterial.
Sheep's wool is also a living material that becomes softer and shinier over the years through use and the influence of sun, air, and water. It is a material that ages beautifully, is absolutely environmentally friendly and free of harmful substances, and cleans and regenerates itself.
CARE
With loving treatment and regular care, a Wild Heart Free Soul kilim will look like new even after many years of use. Real kilims thus outlast several generations.
Our kilims don't require much care, but they do require the right kind. A kilim should be vacuumed or beaten out regularly and carefully. Stains can almost always be cleaned with a slightly damp cloth. Dried food residues can be easily scraped off or brushed out.
A kilim should not remain wet for a long time, as this can cause it to warp. Therefore, we do not recommend washing it yourself. If you feel the need to wash your kilim, please contact a professional, trustworthy rug cleaner or us. We offer all Wild Heart Free Soul customers discounted rates for rug cleaning and restoration.