Multicolour Kilim Short Runner

This eye-catching handwoven Afghan multicolour Kilim short runner rug will enliven anywhere you lay it. It boasts an amazing range of colours: it has an orangey-peach border plus numerous shades including midnight, cream, blue, red, rust, chartreuse, teal, green and purple. 

The design, combined with these colours is breath-taking. It showcases a field pattern of repeating stepped diamonds with a border with meandering pattern. 

Find out some more about this Multicolour Kilim Short Runner

This colourful handwoven Kilim runner was woven by hand in Afghanistan. Historically, many Afghan Kilim rugs were woven in and around the town of Maimana in north west Afghanistan. 

A Kilim is a rug which has been flat woven, this short Kilim runner therefore does not have a piled surface. This runner was made for use on the floor and it was made totally from wool. This Afghan Kilim runner thus consists of wool warps and wool wefts. 

Handwoven runner rug

This multicolour Kilim runner would have been woven by one weaver. Kilim weaving is an ancient craft that is little changed over thousands of years. 

The colours and designs of a Kilim rug that we enjoy are created by colourful weft threads. The weaver weaves these wefts in blocks of colour between the warps. The warps are the first yarns fastened to the loom, and act as the foundation fibres of the rug. If you study the close-up pictures closely, you will see a small vertical slit between the blocks of colour. This occurs because in order to make the pattern the weaver starts the next colour section from the adjacent warp thread. In the Oriental rug trade we call this technique "slit weaving". 

The slit weaving method restricts the designs to straight and diagonal lines. The patterns thus created tend to be diamond, triangles and stepped motifs. 

Using this Afghan Kilim runner in your home

The measurements 192x84cm, approximately 6'4x2'9 of this Kilim Short Runner are rather useful. Often the short Afghan Kilim runners that we stock are much narrower than this piece, typically they are around 60cm or 2ft wide. 

This size could be a handy addition for use in a hallway or corridor, but you could also lay it in a kitchen or utility room, or even as a narrow hearth rug.

Kilim rugs are surprisingly durable. This Afghan runner was made from just wool which is universally known for it's toughness.

Pop it onto an anti-slip rug underlay to hold it firmly in position. You'll find this helpful from a safety point of view, as it will help prevent any mishaps, and it will also help hold the runner flat to the floor, thereby keeping it looking smart. 

One more thing about this Kilim runner that might interest you...

This handwoven runner rug is two-sided. One of the amazing features of this type of Kilim rug is that because of the way in which it was woven, it is in fact the same on both sides. How handy is that?

Key details:

• Country of origin: Afghanistan
• Size: 192×84cm / 6’4″x2’9″ 
• Thickness: 4mm
• Warp: Wool
• Weft: Wool
• Age: New