Terracotta and Apricot 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.

The banding on this one is drawn finer than on any of its neighbours — dozens of stripes across the centre panel, several of them only a few millimetres deep, each still carrying its own small repeat. At arm's length the whole panel reads as a single warm texture; kneel down and it separates into diamonds, hooks and crosses in half a dozen colours. That fineness is a matter of patience rather than of materials: the same wool worked in wider bands would take a fraction of the time. The palette stays within terracotta, apricot and cream, which is what allows so much detail to sit together without the rug becoming restless.