Kars | 242 x 162 cm | Nr. Z-4243

490,00 €

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Kars

This rug in rust red and beige brings together traditional craftsmanship and timeless elegance. A knot density of around 150,000 knots per m² makes the painstaking workmanship visible – right down to the finely worked details. At 242 × 162 cm it is well placed as a living room rug. It shows just as well in an office. As a one-of-a-kind piece it lends the room a character of its own and holds its value far beyond short-lived trends.

Delivery time	2 days
Origin	Turkey
Dimensions	242 cm x 162 cm (= 3.92 m²)
Construction	hand-knotted
Material	Pile: wool (hand-spun, natural dyes) Weft: wool (hand-spun, natural dyes) Warp: wool
knots	150.000
Year of manufacture	1970
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 weft threads of this Kars are made of wool (hand-spun, natural dyes). Wool was used for the warp threads.

Condition

You are not the first to take a liking to this Kars. It has had owners before you who treasured and used it. It was knotted in around 1970. It has been thoroughly cleaned and is in good, unrestored condition. The fringes could do with a repair. The pile is slightly worn. A section of the border measuring about 26x5 cm is badly damaged. We have not restored this Kars because we feel it has a charm all of its own just as it is. If you would like us to, we are of course happy to 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.