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The Turks have produced the largest kilims, usually in two narrow pieces joined, as well as small ones and a multitude of prayer kilims. As a prayer rug, which is carried about with the worshiper, the light and extremely flexible kilim offers obvious advantages. In Turkish kilims, cotton is often used for the white areas, and small details may be brocaded. The kilims of the southern Balkans began as close copies of Anatolian types but have gradually developed into individual styles, such as the black, red, and white kilims of Pirot. In Romania, also, there are varied local fashions, progressively less Oriental in colour and pattern as the distance from Turkey increases. The name kilim is also given to a variety of brocaded, embroidered, warp-faced, and other flat-woven rugs and bags."

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Kilims Galleries are categorized in different sections to make your visit more enjoyable in complex world of oriental antiques..

Our main categories are Anatolian, Caucasian, Persian , Bahtiaris , Cicims & Zilis , Shaddah & Vernehs , Soumaks kilims galleries but we added also some more specific galleries like Konya Cirpi Kilims which are wardrobe cover textile kilims from Central Anatolia , Shahsavan Small Kilims made mostly from Mafrash baby cradles , Sofreh Kilims that are square shape table clothes and Prayer Kilims.

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