Handwoven Kilims

February 11, 2026

Tuareg Textiles and Design: History, Tribal Craft, and Contemporary Influence

  The Sahara has never been short of ideas. It has merely been selective about who hears them. The Tuareg did not set out to create […]
December 17, 2025

The Rug & Kilim Triad: Art, Fashion, Architecture — and the Anatomy of a Rug

In the most serious interiors, rugs are never decorative. They are structural, ideological, and curatorial. They anchor space, discipline movement, and quietly declare the intellectual posture […]
November 6, 2025

Autumn 2025: Rug & Kilim’s Five Picks for the Season of Warmth and Reverie

Autumn is when light softens, color deepens, and interiors begin to speak in undertones. The autumn of 2025 marks a decisive return to warmth. Across ateliers […]
October 27, 2025

Hannah Ryggen’s Memories of Three Returns to the Market: Tapestries Redefining the Art of Interior

In an era where art and design often chase the ephemeral, Hannah Ryggen (1894–1970) remains a force of permanence. Her tapestries — complex, moral, and defiantly […]
October 6, 2025

Designing Corridors and Galleries with Runners: The Power of Narratives in Spaces

Corridors, thresholds, and galleries rarely command the glamour of living rooms or dining spaces. Yet in the language of architecture, they are essential: they choreograph movement, […]
September 4, 2025

The Politics of Color in Rugs and Kilims: Empire, Trade, and Exchange

Color in rugs has never been neutral. The shades that suffuse carpets — indigo blues, cochineal reds, madder browns, saffron yellows — are more than decorative […]
August 21, 2025

Rug of The Week Series II: Jean Lurçat’s L’Homme and the Political Resurrection of Tapestry

Some works enter a room as objects; others arrive as events. Jean Lurçat’s L’Homme does not merely hang—it presides. It does not wait for you to […]
August 7, 2025

What Makes Qashqai Kilims Unique? Inside the World of Persian Tribal Rugs and Flatweaves

Over the last four decades of collecting, studying, and preserving Kilims and Flatweaves, we have come to understand them not simply as tribal textiles, especially Qashqai […]
August 1, 2025

Rug & Kilim Went to Italy: Tapestries and Art That Still Shape the Rooms We Build

There are a few moments in a designer’s life when the past speaks with such authority that it stills the noise of our modern age. On […]
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