10' x 13' Afghan Kilim Rug | Multicolor Tribal Hexagon Lattice | Flat-Woven Wool, Perfect Condition

This is a room-size Afghan kilim, woven entirely by hand in hand-spun wool, with no pile at all: the pattern is built directly into the structure of the cloth. At 10' x 13' it covers a full seating group or a dining table with chairs pulled out, yet it stays light and thin enough to move, roll and layer without a crew. The field carries a dense lattice of stepped hexagons and diamonds, every single one filled with a different small motif and a different colour, so the surface reads as organised chaos from across the room and as a catalogue of tribal drawing up close. This is the kind of flat-woven Oriental rug that works in a formal room and a cabin equally well, and if you want the background on how these pieces differ from knotted-pile weaving, our guide on the actual difference between Persian and Oriental rugs covers it. The piece is in perfect, unused condition and ships with a certificate of authenticity confirming it as a genuine handmade kilim.

Design and Motifs

The whole field is an all over hexagon lattice, drawn in slit-weave so that every outline steps cleanly from one colour block to the next. Each hexagon holds its own filler: 8 point stars, hooked S shapes, stacked chevrons, concentric lozenges, small latch-hook squares and tiny stepped crosses. Between the hexagons sit free-floating diamonds in ivory, saffron and dark forest, which keep the grid from locking up visually. Two narrow outer bands frame the field with a running row of linked crosses and arrowheads, and the main guard stripe repeats a four-petal cross motif in alternating colours. No two cells repeat in sequence, which is the honest fingerprint of village work drawn from memory rather than from a cartoon, and it puts the piece squarely among tribal rugs rather than workshop production. The ends finish in plain-woven kilim bands with the warps left as natural fringe.

A Rust Red Ground Carrying the Full Colour Range

The ground is a deep rust red, somewhere between brick and terracotta, and it shifts in tone across the width because the wool was dyed in small lots and spun by hand. Against it, the hexagons run through slate blue, soft denim, pale aqua, forest green, olive, saffron gold, wheat, apricot, burnt orange, lavender, mauve, aubergine, charcoal grey and chalky ivory. The ivory diamonds do the heavy lifting, bouncing light through the pattern and keeping the red from going heavy. The wide outer border swings cool, mostly slate blue and grey-green with lavender and gold crosses, and the fringe reads a soft lilac grey, which gives the warm field a deliberate cool frame. Being a flatweave, the colour sits flush with the surface with no pile shading, so what you see in the photographs is what lies on the floor. It belongs with the multi-colored rugs that let you pull almost any accent colour out of a room and have it land.

Afghan Weaving and Flat-Woven Quality

Kilims of this type come out of northern Afghanistan, where weavers work on upright looms using hand-spun, hand-dyed highland wool, and the trade still measures quality by how tight the weft is packed and how straight the long edges run. The close-up photograph shows the evidence: fine, even wefts beaten down hard over wool warps, crisp slit joins at every colour change, and no gaps or loose shed anywhere in the structure. Weaving a piece this wide takes two weavers side by side working in step, which is why large-format kilims in clean condition are harder to find than small ones. Because there is no pile, the rug is reversible in practice, dries fast, sheds nothing and sits very low, so doors clear it and dining chairs slide over it. If size is your constraint, see the rest of our 10x13 rugs alongside this one.