Turkish Yuncu Kilim Rug

A honeycomb drawn by someone with strong views about red and blue.

This Yuncu kilim rug comes from Northwest Anatolia, Turkey, and dates to the early 20th century. It is wool. Kilims are flat-woven, without pile, and villagers and nomads across the region made them as floor coverings and household goods, passing designs down from one generation to the next. Yuncu weavers favored stark hexagons, with little else to get in the way. Here red and blue hexagons outlined in ivory stack along both sides of a long red center, on a deep blue ground. Seven feet long and a little over three wide.

No secondary motifs. None needed.