Kurdish Patchwork Kilim / Tapestry

Six colors, six bands, and no apologies.

This patchwork kilim, or tapestry, was woven by Kurdish weavers in Turkey in the 20th century. Patchwork kilims are assembled from narrower lengths of flatwoven wool, each strip stitched to the next, and the result is a cloth that reads as a deliberate composition. Vertical panels of deep red, midnight blue, dark brown, tan, saffron orange and maroon run side by side, speckled with small dark marks that give the surface a quiet, tweedy texture.

Wool, flat-woven, and light enough to hang. It brings a whole wall into order.