Vintage Barak kilim rug - 150 x 100 cm

Six hexagonal medallions unfold across a deep brown ground within these 150 x 100 cm (4'11" × 3'3"), each in its own colour, blue-grey, vivid orange, olive green, mauve, like six different characters brought together by a Barak weaver who did not want to choose.

The mirrored forms that inhabit each medallion belong to the tribal vocabulary of South-Eastern Anatolia, motifs laden with meaning that sixty years have rendered mysterious without erasing them. The vivid orange borders hold everything together with an energy that has never gone out.

One of a kind.