Vintage Kurdish Herki Runner tribal-wool The wool is hand-spun

The wool is hand-spun

So this name is appropriate as the most common colours used in Chobi rugs are colours found in different types of wood

This rug is hand-knotted in Afghanistan from 100% hand-spun wool

and the wool is the reason why

The designs are ornate and considered

Vintage Kurdish Herki Runner tribal-wool The wool is hand-spunThe 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