Vintage Kurdish Herki Runner wool Stock Number: BR789

Stock Number: BR789

and well-crafted finishing details such as neatly finished edges and secure fringes

Stock Number: BR872

design and colours were and sometime still are conditions amazing little quirks that make the rug unique to its own

Stock Number: BR857

Vintage Kurdish Herki Runner wool Stock Number: BR789The Herki are one of the largest Kurdish tribes, leading a nomadic and semi nomadic lifestyle across the mountainous borderlands of Turkey, Iran and Iraq. These runners come from Turkey, woven by Herki weavers carrying a tribal tradition that has never been formalised or institutionalised. There are no workshops, no pattern books. The designs are bold geometric medallions, hooked lozenges, stepped hexagons and tribal symbols, all come from memory and