Turkish Strip Woven Ikat Kilim

Colors that can't quite keep to their own lines, on purpose.

This strip woven ikat kilim comes from Turkey and is contemporary. It is wool. Ikat means the threads are tied and dyed before weaving, which gives each color its soft, blurred edge, and weaving on narrow looms means long strips must then be sewn together. A central seam runs the full length here. Bands of yellow, sky blue, red, pink, green and orange float across a cream ground, and they do not quite line up across the join. Eighty-one inches wide and 118 long.

The mismatch was always part of the deal.