Collection

Khurjin

A pattern built to be carried.
Khurjin begins as a saddlebag — woven in one piece, folded over an animal, carried between camps. The Loomish collection presents that inheritance through Rhythm and Caravan: banded fields, bordered compartments, and motifs gathered along a route rather than drawn in one place. Pieces that feel collected rather than made, for rooms that prefer several quiet gestures to one loud one.

9 pieces online now
Khurjin - Caravan - 5.6 X 8 ft
Nº 01KhurjinCaravan5.6 × 8 ftRs 320,000 Single piece
Khurjin hand-knotted rug, 5.3 × 7.5 ft
Nº 02KhurjinRhythm5.3 × 7.5 ftRs 278,000 Single piece
Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 5.7 × 7.7 ft
Nº 03KhurjinRhythm5.7 × 7.7 ftRs 309,500 Single piece
Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 5.7 × 7.3 ft
Nº 04KhurjinRhythm5.7 × 7.3 ftRs 294,000 Single piece
Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 5.6 × 7.9 ft
Nº 05KhurjinRhythm5.6 × 7.9 ftRs 307,500 Single piece
Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 5.4 × 8.9 ft
Nº 06KhurjinRhythm5.4 × 8.9 ftRs 337,500 Single piece
Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 4.7 × 6.8 ft
Nº 07KhurjinRhythm4.7 × 6.8 ftRs 221,500 Single piece
Khurjin Caravan hand-knotted rug, 4.9 × 6.7 ft
Nº 08KhurjinCaravan4.9 × 6.7 ftRs 228,000 Single piece
Khurjin Caravan hand-knotted rug, 5.8 × 7.7 ft
Nº 09KhurjinCaravan5.8 × 7.7 ftRs 301,000 Single piece
End of the room

That is the selection online.

The house holds a great deal more than is shown here. What you do not see, ask for.

Khurjin - Caravan - 5.6 X 8 ft01Caravan5.6 × 8 ftRs 320,000 Khurjin hand-knotted rug, 5.3 × 7.5 ft02Rhythm5.3 × 7.5 ftRs 278,000 Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 5.7 × 7.7 ft03Rhythm5.7 × 7.7 ftRs 309,500 Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 5.7 × 7.3 ft04Rhythm5.7 × 7.3 ftRs 294,000 Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 5.6 × 7.9 ft05Rhythm5.6 × 7.9 ftRs 307,500 Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 5.4 × 8.9 ft06Rhythm5.4 × 8.9 ftRs 337,500 Khurjin Rhythm hand-knotted rug, 4.7 × 6.8 ft07Rhythm4.7 × 6.8 ftRs 221,500 Khurjin Caravan hand-knotted rug, 4.9 × 6.7 ft08Caravan4.9 × 6.7 ftRs 228,000 Khurjin Caravan hand-knotted rug, 5.8 × 7.7 ft09Caravan5.8 × 7.7 ftRs 301,000
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The tradition

Khurjin rugs

What Khurjin means

Khurjin is the word for a saddlebag. The original was not a rug at all — it was a twin-pouched bag, woven as a single piece and folded over the back of a horse or a donkey to carry grain, tools and belongings between camps. The decorated face of the pouch was the part the world saw, and it was woven with the care that implies.

How a bag became a design

Those bag-faces became a pattern language in their own right. A Khurjin rug carries their structure: banded and compartmented panels, a strong border around each, and a composition that reads as several small complete fields rather than one large one. Every band works like a chapter. The eye moves along it the way a traveller moves through landscape, finding a different motif in each.

Rhythm and Caravan

The two drawings held here take the tradition in different directions. Rhythm keeps the banding regular, so the repetition sets a pace across the field. Caravan lets the bands vary in width and motif, closer to how an actual bag-face was assembled from whatever the weaver had. Both are hand-knotted in wool.

Where a Khurjin sits

The compartmented structure suits a room that does not want a single dominating gesture. An entrance hall, a study, the floor beside a bed. Because the composition is made of parts, it survives being partly covered by furniture in a way a central-medallion carpet does not. Pieces here run from about 4.7 × 6.8 ft to 5.4 × 8.9 ft.

A pattern that was built to be carried, now built to stay.

Questions

What is a Khurjin rug?

A Khurjin is a hand-knotted rug patterned after the decorated face of a khurjin, the twin-pouched saddlebag once woven by nomadic tribes across Central Asia and the Caucasus. Its design is banded and compartmented, reading as several small complete fields rather than one large one.

What does khurjin mean?

Khurjin is the Persian and Turkic word for a saddlebag. It described a bag woven as one piece with a pouch at each end, folded over an animal to carry belongings between camps.

How do you recognise a Khurjin design?

By its structure rather than its motifs. A Khurjin is built from horizontal bands and bordered compartments, each carrying its own pattern, instead of a single field organised around a central medallion.

Where does a Khurjin rug work best?

In rooms that should not be dominated by one gesture — entrance halls, studies, the floor beside a bed. Because the composition is made of separate parts, it still reads correctly when furniture covers some of it.