4 x 5 Turkish Angora Wool Kilim Rug 53855

53855 Vintage Turkish Angora Wool Blanket Kilim Rug, 04'02 x 05'03.

Emerging from the earthen silence of southeastern Turkey, this handwoven Turkish Angora kilim rug holds the softness of mountain wind and the strength of ancestral memory. Its field, dyed a deep black coffee, is rich with the silky sheen of Angora goat fleece—an organic mohair that lends both warmth and radiance to the woven surface. As your eyes move across the dark expanse, subtle variations and handwoven irregularities echo the rhythm of tribal life, where beauty is shaped not by precision but by soul.

In its center floats a luminous ivory medallion, crowned with horizontal lines and serrated edges. Its form recalls the sacred cartouche—a woven tablet, perhaps, or a tribal amulet imbued with the quiet power of protection. The symmetry is meditative, the spacing deliberate: a central stillness surrounded by dark expanse, like a whispered truth held in a silent landscape. This emblem of balance anchors the rug like a beacon amid the moody terrain of its field.

The top and bottom borders of the kilim glow with layered horizontal bands in tawny brown, warm honey, and espresso with thin beige stripes. These striated passages resemble the horizon at dusk, or the stacked sediment of ancient landforms—both visual and symbolic markers of transition. They bring rhythm and balance, their presence framing the field like a woven breath: inhale above, exhale below. Their softness underfoot is matched by their ability to carry the weight of history in a single understated line.

This Angora kilim is more than textile—it is a woven meditation, a tactile relic of place and purpose. Each knot carries the memory of the hands that tied it, the goats that gave their fleece, the land that dyed its palette. To live with it is to honor the poetry of restraint, the beauty of handmade imperfection, and the quiet endurance of Anatolian tradition. 

• Abrash.
• Siirt Blanket Rug
• Hand-woven angora wool.
• Made in Turkey.
• Measures: 04'02 x 05'03.
• Date: 1950's. Mid-20th Century.