Soumak

Brown Field with white, beige, red, blue & green stripes.

The field is composed entirely of five broad vertical bands alternating between warm taupe-brown and pale oatmeal, running the full length of the piece with no border to frame them. Each stripe shows subtle tonal variation and streaking within its color, giving the flat expanse a quiet, handmade irregularity rather than a printed uniformity. There is no additional motif, medallion, or inscription visible; the composition rests entirely on the rhythm of the stripes and their color contrast.

Colorful Hezar Jerib panels (predominantly light blue and green) with linen stitching. 

Two vertical panels joined at center, each striped in flat bands of oatmeal, taupe, and soft gray running the width of the piece. On the left panel a single mustard-yellow band interrupts the muted sequence, giving the only note of color against the otherwise neutral, tonal striping. The border consists simply of the plain woven edges, with no additional framing device.

An ivory field is densely populated with a garden of flowering trees and shrubs rendered in muted greens, rust-red trunks, and small clusters of blue and rose blossoms, giving the impression of an orchard seen from above. The border is composed of concentric bands: a narrow serrated vine, a wide meandering floral scroll in tan and dark blue with birds tucked among the palmettes, and an outer guard of small rosettes on cream ground. The palette throughout stays soft and earthen—camel, ivory, indigo, and faded rose—without any inscription or signature visible.

The field is filled with an all-over lattice of interlocking diamond and lozenge forms in soft blue-green, tan, and dusty rose, each compartment enclosing small palmettes and rosettes rendered in ivory, mustard, and mauve. A wide main border of large lobed palmette medallions in rose and slate blue alternates with scrolling vinework, framed by narrower guard stripes of small blossoms on ivory and blue grounds. The overall palette is muted—faded rose, sage, ochre, and pale ivory—giving the surface a soft, worn harmony.

The field, shown here in its corner section, is filled with a dense allover pattern of small rosettes and palmettes connected by fine scrolling vines, set against a rust-brown ground shifting toward deep indigo near the border. The multiple-band border combines a wide rust-colored stripe carrying a similar floral vine motif with narrower guard stripes in ivory, slate blue-green, and cream, each carrying small repeating blossoms. Overall palette is rust, ivory, and muted blue-green with scattered touches of gold.

Provenance; the Estate of Winifred R Weber.

The gold ground carries an allover lattice of interlocking navy and coral medallions, each filled with small floral sprays and vinework, repeating in a dense diagonal grid across the field. A wide navy border of scrolling palmettes and blossoms frames the composition, set between narrower guard stripes patterned with small rosettes on cream and rust grounds. The corners resolve the lattice cleanly against the border, keeping the medallion rows aligned edge to edge.

The field is organized in an irregular garden-panel lattice, each compartment holding a rosette or floral medallion rendered in shifting tones of gold, sage, rose, and pale blue against alternating grounds. A narrow ivory band with small palmettes separates the field from the wide indigo border, which carries a repeating sequence of round floral medallions and palmette sprays, finished with a plain rose-colored outer edge.