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The kilim has a long and fascinating tradition in Poland. They were initially brought from the East to the nobles’ manors, with time becoming more domestic and produced locally. They captivated Modernist artists, such as Stanisław Wyspiański or Zofia Stryjeńska, who often worked in this medium. In the 1920s and ’30s, kilims decorated grand public buildings as well as private Modernist villas. After the war, they were made in many of Cepelia's (Central Folk Art and Crafts Union) workshops, both for the Polish market as well as for export, unfortunately, with time this noble craft was nearly forgotten.
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stashed away in houses, stored in museums and attics, kindled my imagination. My dream of making modern Polish kilims led me to the weavers working for the last operating cooperative in the town of Bobowa, outside of Cracow. I knew then that together we would create something unique.uried in houses, museums and attics, they ignited my imagination. When, with my dream of modern Polish kilims, I came to the weavers of the last operating Cooperative in Bobowa, I knew that together we would do something special.
Read onWe are proud of our craftsmanship
Weaving a kilim isn't a magical process, instead it involves experience, precision and painstaking work. It also requires unique design, a selection of befitting yarns, as well as a rather priceless component - time. An object crafted this way will accompany us for years to come, therefore a decision to buy one should be well thought out and taken without undue haste.
Learn moreSpace and Chaos at the Museum
Triangles? Evergreens? Mountains? Or perhaps spoil tips? Everyone seems to see something different in Edgar Bąk's design. The Silesian Museum in Katowice has largely recognized it as contemporary classic design, and purchased the Chaos and Kosmos kilims for its collection.
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Eros
A new kilim by Edgar Bąk available now!
Show me loveKilim Chaos
Nowy kilim projektu Edgara Bąka już w sklepie Splot
Show ChaosSplot on the cover of VOGUE LIVING
Splot on the cover of the very first issue of Vogue Living Polska and inside you will find an interview with Przemek Cepak the founder of the brand, as well as our bold designs.
Read in VOGUEKilims & Pasta
The Rapallo kilim opens a series inspired by a meeting we had with renowned Warsaw restaurateur Justyna Kosmala. Justyna and Splot share a passion for the Memphis Milano aesthetic, which defined the colorful design style of the 1980s and 90s. During this creative meeting, the Rapallo kilim was born, and it will decorate the lavishly designed interiors of an Italian restaurant in Warsaw's Wola district.
Take me to RapalloMust Have 2022 for the kilim Veranda
We dedicate the MUST HAVE award to prof. Zenovia Shulga-Galan and the Hlyniany community, who have continuously looked after the kilim traditions for many years connecting the Ukrainian and Polish nations. We stand with you.
Kilim VerandaSplot x SPLOT
What do Splot and SPLOT have in common? They both share a love for design, respect for local artistry traditions and craftsmanship as well as a name that coincidentally, or by a twist of fate, sprung up in the minds of therr founders Zofia Strumiłło-Sukiennik and Przemek Cepak.
View Kilim VerandaHlyniany are weaving!
The Splot brand, in cooperation with the Ukrainian Zena Workshops, are reviving the weaving traditions in Hlyniany, a town in Western Ukraine, some 50 km east of Lviv, where since the second half of the 19th century the largest kilim weaving center in Austro-Hungarian Galicia operated, and later, in independent Poland. "Hlyniany", just like "Meissen" with its porcelain or "Murano" and its glass, became a brand, a synonym of quality. Henceforth, Splot offers kilim designs that have not been woven in decades. Zenovia Szulcha, an artist and professor at the Lviv National Academy of Arts for nearly half a century, oversees the quality of our products. With our Hlyniany kilims we adresse today’s demands by using recycled Polish wool, we support local communities by continuing weaving traditions and creating an international, but above all an interpersonal common thread. This exemplifies the true spirit of Hlyniany, whose heritage, over the last 150 years, has been created by people identifying as Ukrainians, Poles and Jews, or somewhere in between these identities, because Splot is about bringing people together.
Buy a kilim from HlynianyExhibition of Splot kilims at the Łódź Design Festival
Kilim Zenit at the Maison&Objet fair in Paris
Our ZENIT kilim by Piotr Niklas is on display at the prestigious Maison&Objet fair in Paris - one of the most important events in the field of design in the world which takes place September 9-12. Together with befriended brands SPLOT, Biel, Bujnie and Nurt we create a unique stand filled with contemporary Polish design. The stand is curated by Zofia Strumiłło - Sukiennik - interior architect and designer, as well as the author of our upcoming kilim. Let's conquer Paris with polish kilims again!
Get ZenitZENITH premiers at the Europejski Hotel
We are proud to present the ZENIT kilim, which just premiered on the occasion of kilims making a comeback to Warsaw’s Europejski Hotel. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the opening of the ŁAD Artists' Cooperative’s store in this iconic building. Special occasions require a special setting.
Get ZenitKilim DAWN amongst the best Polish designs of the year.
The MUST HAVE 2021 award goes to ... KILIM DAWN! We are proud and honored that it has been selected amongst the best Polish designs of the year. Congratulations to designer Piotr Niklas, as well as the weaving cooperative from Bobowa, who had turned his ideas into an intricately woven reality. Those who wish to experience all the colors of DAWN with their own eyes will be able to do so at the winners exhibition in Łódź at the main square of Manufaktura between May 14 - 23, 2021.
Get the kilimPresenting Splot STUDIO
Splot STUDIO explores tapestries in a smaller format, intended for more intimate spaces. They are made of natural wools, in unnumbered series, and with a more simplified finish, making them an accessible, top-class design.
Show me SPLOT STUDIOdesigners
Piotr Niklas
Graduate of the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw, he has been designing for over a decade. He specializes in visual identity, poster design, user interface and webpage design especially for cultural institutions, video game developers and tech companies.
Ola Kotarska
Graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk. She comes from the Polish-Belarusian-Lithuanian border, she is a painter, illustrator, photographer, and an art educator. She explores the issue of distortions in visual perception, documents wastelands and ditches. Her works were shown at individual and group exhibitions in Gdańsk, Warsaw and Wrocław.
Edgar Bąk
Edgar Bąk’s style and approach to graphic design is marked by a certain simplicity, although a reflective one. He tends to base his designs on plain, geometric shapes and configurations. He is focusing on the creation of visual identities, specializing in complex identification systems as well as posters, album covers and illustrations.Edgar Bąk lectures at the School of Form in Poznań. Previously, he worked at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts and SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
Zofia Strumillo
Interior architect and designer, graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2011, she co-run the Beza Projekt studio for 10 years. Her works have not only won international several internation awards, but are also on permanent display in the gallery of Polish design at the National Museum in Warsaw. She has designed for brands such as: IKEA, ACRA/Du Pont, Bausch & Lomb, Vox, Mdd, etc.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes, you are welcome to visit our showroom in Warsaw, at 36-38 Belwederska Street (entrance from Lądowa Street). We will be at your disposal, just make an appointment with us at +48 603 994 187 or by email.
Yes, you can drive up by car. Ther’s street parking right outside our location.
Yes, we issue a 23% VAT invoice for the purchase of kilims. Our products are also perfect for furnishing front desks, representative lobbies, offices, studies, law firms--wherever you want to give a touch of quiet elegance, warm up the interior or improve its acoustics.
Yes, you can try the kilim at home and it is free. In Warsaw, we deliver kilim without a deposit and measure it at the customer's place. Outside Warsaw, we ask you to pay half the value of the kilim as a deposit and we send the kilim home free of charge. In case you do not like the kilim, we order a return courier and return the deposit to the account. To try on the kilim write us an email and we will take care of the rest. Testing is possible on the territory of Poland.
Those on the waiting list will receive a notification that the kilim is back on offer at the store. Signing up on this list does not obligate you to purchase the kilim.
Yes, you can do a fitting of the kilim at home, to see how it looks, and it is free of charge. In Warsaw we deliver the kilim without a deposit and do the measurements at the customer's location. Outside Warsaw, we ask the customer to pay half the value of the kilim as a deposit and we send the kilim to your location free of charge. In case you do not like the kilim we order a return delivery and return the deposit to your account. To try out the kilim, write us an email, and we will take care of the rest. Fittings are possible in Poland.
Sure, if you want to make someone's kilim dreams come true, you can buy a gift voucher for any amount. All you have to do is email us and we will guide you through the process.
Yes, if you are not satisfied with the kilim you purchased, for any reason, let us know within 14 days from the date of delivery, and we will take care of the exchange. The exchange is free of charge. In the case of kilims which were custom-made, no exchange is possible. The free return is available in Poland.
We ship kilims all over the world.
Yes, when finalizing the purchase on the website you can choose the "mRaty" option for installment payment or Klarna for deferred payment. You don't have to keep waiting to make your kilim dreams come true.
We are shipping worldwide for free.
Yes, many of our kilims are suited for color personalization. Email or call us and we will tell you what we can do for you. A color change in kilims, within a limited palette, is free of charge.
A kilim is a decorative fabric made by hand, using a plain weave, and is identical on both sides.
Many factors account for the final price of a kilim. The cost of the artist's design, natural wools and, most importantly, the cost and time of skilled craftswomen and artisans. One square meter of a kilim is about a week of weaving. Our largest pieces are produced from three weeks to a month.
Yes, many of our kilims - though not all - are fit for size customization. Such resizing is free of charge. Write us an email or call us and we will tell you what we can do for you and price such an alteration.
Yes, we make pieces on special order as unique fabrics. The cost of such a kilim is 6000 pln per square meter of finished, unique fabric. Write us an email or call and tell us what kind of kilim you dream of, and we will guide you through the whole process.
At Splot, we provide all the supplies needed to properly hang a kilim. As a standard, we equip our products with a hanging sleeve, but on special request we can leave the fringes on both sides or hide them altogether. The only thing the customer has to do is to hammer in two nails into the wall--we take care of the rest.
Kilims are made of wool and, like a wool sweater, are considerably less likely to catch dirt. Like any other textile surface, they require basic care. A kilim is as clean as its owners.
A kilim is a two-sided fabric, while a gobelin is a fabric that has a front side and a back side. A gobelin is generally more painterly, while a kilim is more visually graphic.
Sure, it can be laid on the floor like a rug, it can be hung on the wall, or behind a bed serving as a headboard, they can be used in many different ways. A kilim is a fabric whose use is limited only by our creativity.
Once in a while, a kilim can be gently dusted, using a rug beater, or you clean it with a vacuum cleaner on a low power setting. If it catches any stains, you should contact a professional cleaning service. However, as a general rule, kilims do not like water or humidity. It is also good to protect them from direct sunlight, as the colors can fade over time. To get rid of an unwanted odor from the kilim, air it outdoors, for just a couple hours, on a sunny, cold winter day
The Gliniany kilims are woven in Ukraine near Lviv, where weaving traditions go back over one hundred-and-fifty years. These are kilims made of a fine wool on a cotton warp, making the fabric softer, allowing us to work in greater detail. The kilims made in Bobowa, near Krakow, are made on a linen warp from thick gobelin-like wool, which we partially spin ourselves by hand. This gives the effect of a "chunkier", thicker and stiffer fabric. Such kilims are well suited for hanging but also for placing on the floor.