Large Afghan green Kilim

With this large Afghan green Kilim rug you can really add some colour and jazzy geometric patterns to your room. 

Not only are the colours and design impressive, it is great value too. With this Afghan Kilim rug you can cover quite a large expanse of floor relatively inexpensively. 

The eye-catching colours of this Large Afghan green Kilim 

This large Afghan rug displays a desirable combination of colours. It shows a dark green main background colour with an abundance of colour variations. There is a myriad of other colours contained within this Kilim which really contrast with the green main colour. These contrasting shades include orange, red, cream, ochre yellow, purple and blue. Most of the patterns are outlined in cream, which makes the colours pop against the green.

The design works perfectly with these colours. It displays an all over geometric theme of stepped diamond emblems and it is surrounded by a diamond themed main border. 

The materials that this room sized Kilim floor rug is made from

This Kilim rug is a flat woven rug which was handwoven entirely from wool. Because a Kilim is flat woven, it is composed of just warp threads and weft threads.

You don't really notice the warp threads, they are however, an integral part of the Kilim. The warps are the first threads attached to the loom at the outset of the weaving. Each thread runs from the top of the loom to the bottom. They are what the patterns are woven onto. 

The weft threads are the most noticeable yarns in a Kilim as the weavers create the intriguing patterns from these threads.  

Discover how this large Afghan Kilim was made

This large Kilim in green was handwoven. The weavers thread coloured weft threads back and forth between the warps in blocks of colour, changing colours to create the patterns. If you look very closely at this Kilim, you will see that where two colours meet there is a small vertical slit or gap in the Kilim. This is known a "slit-weave", and it occurs when one colour section is finished and the next is started from the neighbouring warp thread, thereby leaving a tiny slit in the weave. These small gaps do not have any effect on the durability of the rug, and you will be surprised at how many years use you will get from this rug.

The way in which this large Kilim was made influences why this is such good value for a large room sized rug. The timescale in which Kilim rugs are woven is much shorter than a hand-knotted pile rug for instance.

Useful to know: 

Did you know that this Kilim rug is reversible? That's right, a byproduct of the slit-weaving technique is that the pattern is the same on both sides. Sometimes one side is a slightly lighter colour than the other, this is due to be washed and dried under the sometimes scorching central Asian Sun.

Key details: 

• Country of origin: Afghanistan
• Size: 341×256cm / 11’2″x8’5″ 
• Thickness: 4mm
• Weft: Wool, slit weave
• Warp: Wool
• Age: New