Toulouse. Kilim rugs are exhibited in Toulouse on Sunday
Laurent Consul has been collecting kilim rugs for twenty years. On Sunday, he exhibits rue de la Concorde in Toulouse.
“My passion for the kilim rug (named after a 7,000-year-old weaving technique) started in my youth during a first trip to Turkey, explains this designer cabinetmaker. Then gradually I became interested in the subject. D “first by acquiring inexpensive pieces and then by refining my choices.” This Sunday, Laurent Consul, a passionate collector, will exhibit his rugs during Concordemania rue de la Concorde.
In his small apartment more than a hundred rugs are piled up in a corner of the room. Kilim rugs in bright vegetable colors that reflect the light, sometimes flamboyant or autumnal and with geometric patterns. Like this piece from 1870 from Azerbaijan with embroidered and graphic patterns purchased for €350 in Turkey: “The value of the kilim is linked to its age, its rarity and its originality. Unique pieces formerly woven by women whose know-how tends to disappear.”
For Laurent Consul, the Kilim rug is more than craftsmanship. It’s art. “All the pieces are purchased by a restorer in Turkey, he specifies. This collection continues to grow.” To promote his rugs, Laurent also sells in two shops in Toulouse: “La Vitrine” rue du Canard and since this summer at the Salon des Antiquaires avenue des Etats-Unis. He will not give a price for his carpets, the collection of which is divided between pieces prior to the 1930s and a second from the 1930s to the 1970s.