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Kilim designs: hands-on-hips figure, ram's horn, protective eye in three styles

Kilim — A stylised standing figure with a triangular skirt and arms bent to the waist, repeated in a column, each figure hooked at the shoulders and topped by a small diamond head, the slit weave leaving a fine gap along every vertical edge., slit-tapestry flatweave in hand-spun wool, dyed with madder, walnut and indigo

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Reading 1Hands on hips
Reading 2Ram's horn
Reading 3Running water

Kilim is Anatolian flatweave: no pile, slit tapestry, and a vocabulary of signs the weaver could read — hands on hips for fertility, ram's horn for strength, the eye against harm. These nine carry a hands-on-hips figure, a ram's horn and a protective eye through slit tapestry weave, flatweave colour and Anatolian sign vocabulary. Ask for a different traditional sign and the same three flatweave styles carry it.

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Frequently asked questions

What size do these print at?
Each design is drawn as a seamless repeat at A3 proportions with an even margin, so it prints clean at A3 or scales to A4 or a fabric swatch.
Can I ask for a different traditional sign?
Yes — the direction field takes any Anatolian sign you name, such as running water for the road, and the same three flatweave styles render it.
What's the difference between the three styles?
The hands-on-hips style keeps the classic fertility figure centred; the ram's-horn style repeats the strength motif across the field; the protective-eye style leans into the guarding sign at the border.
Is this respectful of real kilim craft?
The set draws on the Anatolian slit-tapestry flatweave tradition as a style reference for a generated print, not a reproduction of any specific weaver's or village's rug, and not a claim to be hand-woven wool.

About toile

This page is a showcase and a starting point: nine samples already rendered, three readings of the pack crossed with three styles, each shown at the size and ratio it was made for. Take any of them further on the wall with a few words, or ask for all nine again under your own direction; a sign-in keeps what you make, and it is free while Toile is new. The recipe behind each sample — the subject, the style, the palette, the framing — travels with the image rather than staying private to the render: it is in the alt text of every sample and in the page's own structured data, so a search engine reads the same handles a person would.