Antique Kurdish Runner Size: 3'8" × 11'8" Date: 1890s Material: Wool on Wool Kurdish weavers worked across a wide stretch of northwestern Iran and eastern Anatolia, producing rugs with a distinctly tribal character — heavy wool, saturated natural dyes, and bold geometric designs drawn from memory rather than cartoons. Kurdish runners of this length and quality are not common. The deep auburn-red field runs the full length with a column of individual octagons and medallions stacked end to end, each one different from the last. They vary in ground colour — ivory, slate blue, sage green, navy, and orange — which gives the runner a lively, almost patchwork rhythm without losing the vertical coherence of the layout. Small geometric filler motifs sit between the medallions, keeping the field active throughout. The wide ivory border is packed with a repeating series of bold geometric medallions in red, blue, and green — substantial enough to frame the runner firmly without closing it in. The palette overall is unusually varied for Kurdish work, with the range of ground colours in the medallions making this piece more colourful and decorative than typical examples. Good pile, honest age, and a format that works in a hallway or alongside a staircase.