VAN Vintage Kilim 275x150cm
Bring the warmth and beauty of Anatolian craftsmanship into your home with this unique vintage kilim from the Van region. With its detailed diamond pattern, vibrant colors, and a history passed down through generations, this rug is more than just a decorative piece – it's a true work of art.
✨ Highlights:
- Origin: Handwoven in the Van region, Anatolia
- Material: 100% natural, hand-spun sheep's wool
- Dimensions: 275 x 150 cm
- Age: Approx. 60–80 years old, carefully restored
- Colors: Red, terracotta, cream, and dark violet - dyed with natural dyes.
This kilim brings character and charm to any room, whether as an eye-catcher in the living room, an accent by the bed, or even as a wall hanging. The vibrant colors and symbols tell stories of protection, love, and a deep connection to nature.
🌿 Sustainable & Authentic:
At Wild Heart Free Soul, we believe in the power of traditional craftsmanship. Each kilim is carefully restored to preserve its original beauty without consuming new resources. With your purchase, you support sustainable values and the work of talented weavers.
Transform your space with a kilim that tells stories and adds warmth and soul to your home.
VAN Vintage Kilim 275x150cm
Wild Heart Free Soul
Kastanienallee 55
10119 Berlin
Germany
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Anatolian, flat-woven kilim rug made of hand-spun sheep's wool. Unique vintage item 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's wool, highest quality
- Craftsmanship: Flat-woven by hand on a traditional, horizontal wooden loom
- Age: Semi-Antique. Approx. 1960-1970
- Condition: Vintage in mint condition due to extensive cleaning and restoration process
- Origin: Van, Anatolia
- Size: 275 x 150 cm, Height: 3 mm
Anatolian kilims are far more than mere textile objects – they are woven memories, personal messages, and an expression 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 symbolic power.
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 plant-dyed. Many pieces from the 1960s and 1970s bear the traces of a cultural transition in their tones: 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 on – and some of them slept for a long time in chests until they resurfaced 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 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 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.
A kilim is a long-lasting companion – if treated with love and cared for mindfully, it can endure for many more 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 rotating vacuum cleaner; instead, ideally use a brush attachment or a gentle handheld device. Too frequent, intensive vacuuming can fatigue the fibers in the long run.
Every few months, it's worth turning the kilim over and vacuuming the back as well. Rotating the rug slightly once a year ensures even wear and maintains 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 – that would damage the fibers. 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 fibers can become 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.