Remembering Kilims

If you have been following me you know that I LOVE Kilims....
This is a Kilim that I designed in a class with Anne Boissinot...awhile ago...the hooking has been finished for awhile and I have been struggling with how to finish it. I have whipped both sides (long) ( only one is whipped in this photo). I want to fringe the rug warp that remains on each end. BUT before I do that I needed (wanted) to put some kind of finishing stitch to hold the loops in place and prevent fraying....with the help of THE big giant head....I put two rows of single crochet in corresponding colored wool (to the whipping) and I am happy with that. I will now remove the weft threads and knot the warp threads to make a fringe....stay tuned for more progress...

And The Show Goes On...St.Henri Exhibit 2010

Primitive Flowers 2

Designed by Tara Darr

Hooked by Mary Guay

Ma Famille en Kilim

Designed and Hooked by Yanick Duchesne

Fleurs, style Naif

Designed by Tara Darr

Hooked by Lucie Geneviève Lambert

Kilim: Histoire de Sophie et Yogi

Designed and Hooked by Jocelyn Guindon

La Ferme Morgan

Designed and Hooked by Yanick Duchesne

Kilims: Back to the Blues

 

Here is another wonderful blue. This one is called Williamsburg Blue Dark. It is an Oriental Background color formula from Prisms # 1 (66 Spots and 35 Oriental Backgrounds), a dye book from the Dye Divas Claire deRoos and Nancy MacLennan. Click on the photo to see the great depth of color.

It is rich and luxurious. Another exquisite color for use in Kilims. 

My Kilim So Far...

 

My progress on my Kilim has been slow, but steady. I am a very slow hooker, especially when I am using a # 5 cut. The traditional symbols found in Kilim rugs and carpets have meanings which have been passed down from one generation to the next.

"The patterns and motifs on kilim rugs have a symbolic language. Thus, many symbolic, iconic or indexical motifs (signs) on kilim rugs can help transfer the cultural data of that time to the present day, therefore kilims are media of transferring cultural heredity as well." (Assist. Prof. PhD. Nurdan Taflk›ran - Kocaeli University, Faculty of Communication, Radio, Cinema & TV Dept., Turkey.) 

This "Red" panel represents me.

Here is an iconic figure of a man that represents me. Above me is an icon which symbolizes my hands, used to create the rugs that I make.

 

Above the hand is an icon of a cross which symbolizes my connection to my spirituality, and my yoga practice (mind/body/soul). 

Here are two more two crosses, one stylized as a flower which relates to my spiritual connection to the earth and my garden and flowers and the other a more traditional representation of a cross which represents for me my profession in the health care field.

Another Kilim Color

This one is called Camel Dung. Yeah, you read correctly. It is a float method of dying. One color is floated onto the wool at a time while the wool sits in a large pot of salted water. Mordant is added only once. The second and third colors are floated on when the previous color is all absorbed. This fabulous formula comes from Anne Boissinot. It is delicious when it is hooked up.

More Great kilim Colors

Bea Brock, www.hillcountry-rugworks.com recently wrote an article in the February/March ATHA newsletter www.atharugs.com "Dying Primer". Bea gave a formula for this wonderful blue-green. Bea suggested taking a 1/4 cup of the dye solution and pre-dying or tinting the wool piece ( in this case a 1/2 yard) and then take the remaining 3/4 cup and dying the half yard piece without any stirring in a pot with only enough water to barely cover the wool that is crowded in a pot. The above photo shows the result of this method. This piece would work wonderfully in a kilim. It has really interesting mottled variations in the values going from light to medium to dark all in the same piece.

More Hooked Kilim Rugs

Tribal kilim

Hooked By Anne Boissinot

Design by J McGown Flynn for Charco, The House of Price

Grand Sivas

Hooked by Martha Beals

Designed by J McGown Flynn, for Charco, The House of Price

 

Kilim Sivas Pillow

Hooked by Norma Batastini

Designed by J McGown Flynn, for Charco, The House of Price

Kilim Sivas 

Hooked by Norma Batastini

Designed by J McGown Flynn, for Charco, The House of Price

 

Sivas Pillow

Hooked by ??????

Designed by J McGown Flynn, for Charco, The House of Price