Antique kilim fragment Konya or Karapinar? Cm 46x86 ca Mid 19th c or third q It’s the end or the beginning of a kilim strip usually 300 to 400 cm long. The medallions of different colors, madder red, indigo blue and chestnut brown. They probably represent the "elibelinde" or hands on hips motif, symbol of the “great mother”, but could have been meant to represent eagles, symbol of power. The aubergine color helps us to date it to 1860 or 1880. Spacing is also a sign of age somehow. Notwithstanding all it’s a beautiful, antique, decorative, collectable work of tribal art of the Anatolian Nomads. If intereste dm or email carlokocman@gmail.com