Furry Kelim | 239 x 162 cm | Nr. Z-1644

Furry Kelim

Delivery time	2 days
Origin	India
Dimensions	239 cm x 162 cm (= 3.87 m²)
Construction	hand-woven
Material	Pile: wool (hand-spun, natural dyes)
knots	20.000
Edition	one-of-a-kind piece

Origin

Our Furry Kelims are part knotted and part woven.

The knotted sections of the rug are shaggy and irregular. That gives these rugs an unmistakable feel. Every knot is tied by hand, creating a pattern and a character all of its own.

The woven sections of the rug, by contrast, have a smoother surface and a more even structure. They form the base on which the knotted areas are built up.

Together, these different techniques create a fascinating contrast and a varied texture that speaks to the eye as much as to the sense of touch. Every Furry Kelim is a one-of-a-kind piece and shows the skill and talent of the weavers who made it.

Material

The technique used to make the materials for the pile of this Furry Kelim is more than 200 years old. The wool was dyed with natural colours and spun by hand. Dyeing with natural or plant colours is more complicated, more expensive and more time-consuming than dyeing with chemical colours. For a luminous red, for example, you need around one kilo of ground madder root as dye per kilo of wool. For a strong yellow that isn't too pale, you even need two kilograms of weld dye per kilo of wool. Spinning the wool is just as time-consuming and labour-intensive. And fewer and fewer people still know how to spin wool by hand.

But the effort is worth it: dyeing with natural colours allows the high-quality wool to keep its natural oil content. Wool that has been dyed with natural colours and spun by hand creates fascinating, shimmering patterns. The charm of hand-spun wool, with its slight irregularities and natural shades, comes into its own as a contrast in modern interiors, but equally in rooms furnished in a more traditional or country style.