The Craft Behind Our Products

Every Kardashii piece starts as a textile, not a template. Long before it becomes a bag, a pair of shoes, or a piece for the wall, it exists as a flat-woven or hand-knotted textile — a craft that can take months to complete by hand. Here's a closer look at the techniques and materials behind our collections.

Kilim

Kilim is a flat, tapestry-woven technique — as opposed to a knotted pile — made almost entirely from wool, used for both structure and pattern. Because it's woven rather than knotted, a kilim textile looks much the same on both sides, and its geometric patterns are built directly into the weave rather than added afterward.

Jajim

Jajim is a thinner, two-sided handwoven cloth, made from wool or a blend of wool and silk. Traditionally used as a coverlet, its fine, colorful threads and reversible construction make it a natural fit for the structured bags and accessories we build from it.

Suzani

Suzani is an embroidered textile — its name comes from the word for needle — traditionally hand-stitched onto a cotton or silk base. Each Suzani panel tells its own story through color and pattern, which is why we treat every piece we use as a one-off rather than a repeatable print.

Pictorial Weaving

Unlike a floor rug, a pictorial weave is made to be seen, not walked on. Instead of a repeating pattern, it holds a single image or scene, woven in silk and wool with the same knotting techniques used for centuries — then framed and hung like a painting. It's the textile equivalent of a portrait: made once, for one wall.

The Symbols in Our Products

The shapes and motifs woven into our textiles sit somewhere between decoration and language. They're not arbitrary — many follow patterns passed down through generations of weavers, even where their exact meaning isn't always traceable today. We see them as a quiet thread of history running through every piece, whether or not it's ever fully translated.