Kars 209 x 165

Kars carpets are wool carpets knotted by Caucasian nomads living around the city of Kars. These carpets have a clear geometric design and are dyed with natural plant dyes. Kars carpets are beautiful, simple and durable.
Hand-made carpets from this region are very rare and are hardly woven anymore, so many are already antique or semi-antique. Due to their fineness and rarity, these carpets are often traded as an investment.
For these carpets, hand-spun virgin wool is used by the nomads not only in the pile, but also for the warp (the base fabric).

About weave and colors of nomadic carpets

Some carpets, mostly nomadic, have stripes of another colour in the weaving. This happens because every wool quality absorbs different the colour, but the weaver does not see it before the final wash, where the carpet gets its final appearance.
Small subtle stripes many times "give live" to a carpet, but large contrasts in colour are considered annoying and reduce the value of a carpet.
This phenomenon is called abrash, a word derived from the word rash in Fars language (mean cloudiness).

Also the form of nomadic carpets may be a little crooked as they are made under simple conditions and on foldable-not stable looms.

Despite the naturalness of these phenomena, our company tries to eliminate them as far as possible and selects mainly high quality carpets without flaws, with very strict criteria.

Other information’s

Nomadic carpets were for many years a smart purchase with a low price. But it is unfortunately a fact that this changes every year. The offer of original nomadic carpets continuously decreases with the result that prices go up.
Many current nomads are no longer move continuously as before, this has results in the nomadic tradition and culture. The carpets and rugs of course continue to be an important element of their lives.
The materials used are homemade and the looms are usually horizontal and foldable.
They do not use a drawing of the carpet, but they weave by memory.
The Designs are influenced by their environment and they have been handed over from generation to generation.