Kars | 192 x 142 cm | Nr. Z-2703

190,00 €

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Kars

This rug in dark red and blue-grey combines traditional craftsmanship with timeless elegance. With a knot density of around 160,000 knots per m², the painstaking workmanship shows above all in the precise drawing of the pattern and the finely worked details. At 192 × 142 cm, it suits the bedroom or study. It also looks at home in a child's room or a dressing room. This one-of-a-kind piece brings individual character into the room and holds its value far beyond short-lived trends.

Delivery time	2 days
Origin	Turkey
Dimensions	192 cm x 142 cm (= 2.73 m²)
Construction	hand-knotted
Material	Pile: wool (hand-spun, natural dyes) Weft & Warp: wool
knots	160.000
Year of manufacture	1950
Condition	pre-owned and cleaned
Edition	one-of-a-kind piece

Origin

This Kars rug was knotted by Caucasian people living around the town of Kars. With just under 90,000 inhabitants, Kars lies in north-eastern Anatolia, some 45 km west of the border with Armenia and 65 km south of the Turkish-Georgian border, at an altitude of 1768 m.

Material

The technique used to make the materials for the pile of this Kars is over 200 years old. The wool was dyed with natural colours and spun by hand. Dyeing with natural or plant dyes is more involved, more expensive and more time-consuming than dyeing with chemical colours. For a luminous red, for example, you need roughly one kilo of ground madder root as dye per kilo of wool. For a strong yellow that is not too pale you even need two kilograms of weld per kilo of wool. Spinning the wool is labour-intensive and takes time as well. On top of that, 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.

The foundation (weft and warp threads) of this Kars is made of new wool.

Condition

You are not the first to take a liking to this Kars. It has had owners before you who valued and used it. It was knotted around 1950. It has been cleaned thoroughly and is in good, though unrestored, condition. The pile is worn in places. The edges are damaged in parts. The fringes could do with a repair. We have not restored this Kars, because we feel it has a special charm just as it is. If that is what you would prefer, we will of course gladly restore the rug for you. Either way, this Kars will give you pleasure for decades to come.

A note on the photos

The colours of this rug change depending on which side you look at it from. It all depends on whether the light falls with the nap of the pile or against it. That is why we have photographed the rug from several angles.

Child labour? No thanks.

Child labour? No thanks. Children belong in school, not at a knotting frame or a loom. For us it therefore goes without saying that we only offer rugs made under fair conditions and without child labour.

We attach particular importance to humane working conditions and tolerate no child labour at any of our producers. Thank you for helping us to ensure fair conditions.

That is why we support the initiative Care & Fair against child labour in the rug trade.