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Benedictus

A pale sage-green field is left largely open, carrying a symmetrical, mirrored pattern of slender branching vines drawn in thin brown outline, radiating from a central axis toward the four corners. Scattered along the branches are small pale yellow dots suggesting buds or blossoms, and the design is contained within a narrow plain border in a slightly deeper taupe tone.

VINTAGE KILIM COMPOSITION

A flat, undecorated ivory ground is divided by faint vertical seams into four long panels, each interrupted at irregular heights by narrow horizontal bands of brown and taupe striation. The bands are staggered asymmetrically across the panels rather than aligned, and the field is otherwise left entirely open, with no border framing the composition.

Beni Ourain

The field is left borderless, given over entirely to an irregular lattice of ivory lines that divide the taupe ground into a mosaic of cellular, tile-like shapes. Toward the top the grid loosens into a mottled, dappled pattern before tightening into narrower, more vertical compartments across the lower two-thirds. Loose warp fringe is visible at both the upper and lower ends.

Swedish Rya

A flatwoven field of fine horizontal striations in ivory, grey, and pale blue is overlaid with a loose grid of bold indigo bands, forming an irregular checkerboard of blocks that shift slightly out of alignment. The composition has no separate border, the striped ground running edge to edge and finishing in long warp fringe at both ends. A detail inset shows the tight, ribbed structure and the transition between the pale ground and a denser blue band.

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