Magenta and Rose Banded Kilim, Hand-Woven Wool

Material: 100 percent hand-spun wool, flat-woven with soumak embroidered banding. No pile.

Care instructions

• Always use a rug pad underneath — a flatweave slips easily without one.
• Vacuum gently with the beater bar off, working along the bands rather than across them.
• Turn the kilim over every year — it is reversible and wears evenly if used both sides.
• Blot spills immediately, working from the outside in.
• Have the kilim professionally cleaned when needed — never machine wash.

Afghan flatweaves are usually built on madder red — the root dye that gives the deep brick tones seen across most of the region. This one is not. The cerise-magenta running through it is a brighter, cooler colour altogether, and it changes what the rug does in a room: where a madder kilim sits back and warms a space, this one reads as a colour statement and will hold its own against modern furniture. The structure underneath is entirely traditional — a striped centre panel, deep soumak-embroidered borders, banded ends — so what you have is a familiar weaving in an unfamiliar palette, which is exactly the combination that tends to sell out of a collection first.