Soumak

Moroccan Kilim

The field is a deep brown ground crossed by dozens of narrow horizontal bands worked in white, cream, green, and touches of pink and red, each employing a different pattern - solid lines, small chevrons, dashes, or rows of tiny x-motifs. There is no separate border; the striping runs uninterrupted to a plain warp fringe at both ends, and the lines drift slightly out of parallel toward the lower portion of the piece.

Berber

An open, undyed ivory field crossed by a series of narrow horizontal bands in charcoal-grey, spaced at irregular intervals from top to bottom. The bands vary slightly in width and doubling, some appearing as single lines and others as paired stripes, giving a subtle rhythm across the otherwise plain ground. A loose fringe of undyed warp ends finishes the upper edge.

Azilal

An open ivory field is left largely bare, scattered with loosely drawn figures rendered in olive-green outline: elongated stick figures, tower-like columnar forms, small house shapes, and a central band of open diamond and lozenge outlines faintly tinted with pale green. Jagged, lightning-bolt lines in the same dark outline run vertically along both sides of the field, framing the composition rather than forming a conventional border. A narrow flatwoven strip in coral red closes the top and bottom edges before the fringe.

Berber

An ivory field is overlaid with an irregular brown lattice of diamond shapes, rendered in a loose, hand-drawn line that varies slightly in width and spacing across the length. A narrow border at one end carries a row of stepped, comb-like brown motifs against the same undyed ground, while the opposite end is left plain and fringed.

Berber

The ground is built from horizontal bands alternating ivory and deep brown, crossed by five vertical columns of stacked motifs in brown, ivory, and touches of coral pink. Each column carries a sequence of small figural and geometric forms - rounded pot-like shapes, diamond lattices, and rows of chevrons - rendered slightly differently column to column, giving an irregular rather than mirrored symmetry.

Berber

The field is organized in continuous horizontal bands alternating deep brown and ivory, each stripe carrying its own small repeating motif: rows of scalloped half-moons, chevron zigzags, tiny diamond lattices, and clusters of mustard-yellow dots. There is no distinct border, the striped composition running edge to edge and terminating in a plain warp fringe at both ends. The palette stays close throughout - brown, unbleached cream, and a single warm yellow accent - giving the whole surface a steady, banded rhythm.

Berber

A dark brown ground crossed by fine horizontal striping supports two mirrored compositions, each built from a central column of stacked diamond medallions flanked by paired vertical bands of small geometric flowerheads in ivory, ochre, orange, and touches of blue-green. A narrow saw-tooth guard in mustard and rust encloses the field, with loose warp fringe left exposed at both ends.

Moroccan Kilim

An overall diamond lattice, worked alternately in mustard yellow and dusty pink, spans the deep brown ground from end to end without a distinct border. Small scattered devices in white, coral, and cream fill the interior of each lattice cell, and narrow horizontal striping in muted rose and ochre breaks the ground color at intervals near the top. Both ends finish in long, loosely twisted brown fringe.

Azilal

Shown from both faces, the piece presents an ivory ground overlaid with irregular vertical striations in burgundy, rust, sage green, and pale blue, thinning out toward an open, undecorated expanse at the right. The reverse flat-woven side reads as a clean sequence of narrow stripes in coral, green, red, and blue against the same undyed ground, the pattern more evenly spaced than on the pile face. Loose warp fringes finish both ends, left uneven in length, and a strip of denser color banding runs along the left selvage.

Berber

An ivory ground carries an all-over lattice of elongated diamonds outlined in irregular, hand-drawn brown-black lines, the shapes shifting slightly in size and alignment across the field. A single horizontal band crosses the composition roughly two-thirds down, dividing the lattice into two uneven registers, with plain selvages and loose warp fringe at both ends left unadorned.

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