Vintage Kurdish Herki Runner living room repeating motifs

repeating motifs

the colours have already mellowed and the pile has settled into the kind of refinement that only natural dyes and fine wool together produce over time

Size: 242 x 169 cm | 8' x 5'7"

Size: 189 x 106 cm | 6'3" x 3'6"

Stock Number: BR1091

Vintage Kurdish Herki Runner living room repeating motifsThe Herki are one of the largest Kurdish tribes, leading a nomadic and semi nomadic lifestyle across the mountainous borderlands of Turkey, Iran and Iraq. These runners come from Turkey, woven by Herki weavers carrying a tribal tradition that has never been formalised or institutionalised. There are no workshops, no pattern books. The designs are bold geometric medallions, hooked lozenges, stepped hexagons and tribal symbols, all come from memory and