Afghan Maimana Kilim luxury runner shaggy and dense in a

shaggy and dense in a way that most hand-knotted rugs are not

the colours have already mellowed and the pile has settled into a character that only time and natural dyes together produce

producing a surface that is embossed and dimensional

Material: Wool and Silk

Afghan Maimana Kilim luxury runner shaggy and dense in aMaimana is a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan, and it produces some of the most distinctive flatweave rugs in the country. The weavers here are predominantly Uzbek, and their kilim tradition stretches back centuries, shaped by the nomadic cultures of the region and the Turkmen, Uzbek and Pashtun influences that have long intersected in this part of Afghanistan. What makes Maimana kilims particularly rare is who makes them. This is one of the