Koliai
271 × 169 cm
2.511 €
Koliai
981 €
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305 × 165(5.03 m²)
Hand-knotted
20-40 Years
Iran / Persia
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About This Koliayie
Where it comes from
This is a Koliai, also written Koliayie, a Kurdish tribal weaving from the Songhor district of western Iran, part of the wider Kurdistan and Kermanshah weaving region. It measures 305 x 165 cm (10'0" x 5'5"). The type is known for a large central medallion over a Herati diamond ground, and for dense, lustrous mountain wool. Here the medallion takes over almost the entire field.
What you see
The field is a warm cream-camel, filled edge to edge with a fine brown diamond mahi pattern, so dense it reads almost as texture before it reads as design. Out of this ground rises an oversized lozenge medallion, floating on deep brick-red, so large that only narrow red spandrels remain in the corners. Each spandrel carries its own small medallion and a stylised flowering spray. Around all of it runs a broad, multi-band border, red and navy-black alternating, scattered with salmon-pink rosettes.
How it was made
The rug is hand-knotted on a cotton warp, its pile hand-spun mountain wool shorn to twelve millimetres, at a density of 128,000 to 160,000 knots per square metre. That wool still carries its natural lanolin, which gives the surface its quiet sheen rather than a hard shine. Koliai weavers work from memory rather than a drawn plan, and this freehand approach let the weaver push the medallion far past its usual scale, answering it with four small corner medallions that echo each other without quite repeating.
At home
In a living room, under a seating group, the cream ground lifts a pale floor, while brick-red and navy hold their own against darker furniture. Underfoot it is dense and firm, a rug built to be walked on rather than kept for best. As daylight moves across it, the salmon rosettes in the border catch the light first, and the medallion seems to shift with the day.
More on Koliayie rugs: origin, making and how to recognise a genuine piece
Product Details
- Rug No.
- 202097
- Size
- 305 × 165 cm (5.03 m²)
- Thickness
- ca. 12 mm
- Knots
- 128,000 – 160,000 / m²
- Craft
- Hand-knotted
- Pile
- Hand-spun Wool
- Warp
- Cotton
- Origin
- Iran / Persia
- Age
- 20-40 Years
- Condition
- Perfect★★★★★
- Pattern
- All-Over Pattern
- Weight
- ca. 17 kg
- Stock
- Unique — Only 1
Traditional weave
Questions about this rug
Which room is this rug for?
At 305 × 165 cm (5.03 m²) this is a large rug. It sits under a seating group with the front legs of sofa and chairs on it, or under a dining table for four. A table for six wants about 80 cm of clearance all round, and needs more.
Is this rug hand-knotted?
Yes, knotted by hand — knot by knot on a loom, not machine-made. The density is 128,000 to 160,000 knots per square metre; across 5.03 m² that is roughly 640,000 to 810,000 individual knots, every one of them tied by hand.
How do I care for this rug?
Hand-spun wool still carries its own lanolin, which keeps liquid sitting on the surface for a moment: blot quickly, with clear water and a light cloth, working inwards and without rubbing. Otherwise regular vacuuming along the pile is enough. Turn the rug once or twice a year so light and footfall reach it evenly.
Still have a question?
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Ref: 202097
