4 x 6 Turkish Angora Wool Kilim Rug 53848

53848 Vintage Turkish Angora Wool Blanket Kilim Rug, 04'06 x 05'11.

Woven beneath the soft shadows of Anatolia’s mountain light, this handwoven Turkish Angora kilim rug reveals the quiet dignity of pastoral tradition. Its field—an enveloping expanse of deep espresso brown—radiates with the natural luster of Angora mohair, the prized fleece once gathered from goats tended on the windswept plateaus near Siirt. This plush surface, feathered and dark as freshly turned earth, holds warmth not only in its fibers but in its ancestral memory.

At the heart of the composition, a singular beige medallion rises like a ceremonial banner—symmetrical, stepped, and bordered by delicate horizontal lines. Framed in a language older than ink, its geometric outline echoes the tribal motif, often used to protect, bless, or mark one’s weaving. It floats within the field like an illuminated manuscript on parchment, stark and sacred in its simplicity.

The top and bottom of the angora kilim rug are embraced by layered horizontal bands in shades of creamy beige and black coffee, recalling the tiered rock faces and far-reaching vistas of the Anatolian landscape. These border stripes offer a measured rhythm to the composition, drawing the eye upward and downward in a meditative cadence. Their uneven edges, softened by the long nap of mohair, blur the boundary between precision and poetry, as if drawn by the hand of wind or memory.

This Angora kilim is a hymn to minimalism woven with devotion. In its every thread lies a tension between restraint and richness, between solitude and belonging. It offers not a story told in many voices, but one spoken with clarity and grace: a story of hands, goats, earth, and loom. To live with this rug is to invite the sacred silence of tradition into the heart of the home.

• Abrash.
• Siirt Blanket Rug
• Hand-woven angora wool.
• Made in Turkey.
• Measures: 04'06 x 05'11.
• Date: 1950's. Mid-20th Century.