Soumak

The field, a soft sage-taupe, carries an all-over lattice of floral sprays in repeating rows, each cluster combining a ring-form yellow blossom with a paler serrated flower and small ivory buds joined by curling leaves. The wide border echoes the palette with a meandering vine of small rosettes and dotted trefoils in muted brown, gold, and cream against the same greenish ground, framed by plain guard stripes. Colors throughout stay within a subdued range of olive-gray, mustard yellow, ivory, and soft brown, with no other inscriptions or marks visible.

A quatrefoil medallion in soft rose and cream, filled with sprigs of pink and ivory blossoms, sits at the center of a pale celadon field patterned with radiating lobed compartments bordered in dark navy scrollwork. An ivory band with scattered floral sprays separates the field from an outer border of stylized navy and cream palmette-like points set against a muted olive ground, with narrow guard stripes of coral red framing the composition. The corners of the ivory band contain dense navy interlace medallions echoing the central design.

A pale lavender field is scattered with small floral sprays of ivory blossoms, pink rosettes, and mustard-yellow leaves, arranged loosely around a central medallion formed by a delicate square wreath of matching flowers. The wide sage-green border repeats the same rose, tulip, and floral vocabulary in ochre, cream, and dusty pink, with a narrow plain band separating it from the field.

An open ivory field is scattered with small floral bouquets arranged in staggered rows, with a single larger vase of roses set at the center as the focal motif. Each spray combines pink, blue, and soft brown blossoms with green stems, rendered against the plain ground. The dark brown border carries a running chain of stylized flower heads and trailing ribbon-like vines in muted gold, rose, and cream tones.

An allover lattice of scrolling pink-outlined medallions, each enclosing an urn-like floral spray in dusty rose, cream, and sage on grounds that alternate between deep brown and olive green. The interlocking cusped forms are separated by a small-scale cream and pink checkered vine, giving the field a dense, continuous rhythm with no distinct border retained in this fragment. Color throughout leans toward faded rose, warm brown, and muted green, with occasional touches of pale yellow in the flowerheads.

An ivory ground carries a repeating vertical arrangement of scrolling floral sprays, palmettes, and small vine-filled cartouches in muted gold, sage green, dusty pink, and soft gray tones. A wide mustard-gold border encloses the field, itself framed by a narrower guard stripe of scrolling foliate motifs echoing the interior palette. The overall design is symmetrical, with the botanical elements diminishing gently in scale toward the field's edges.

A large lobed medallion filled with dense floral scrollwork anchors an open ivory field, with pendants extending toward the top and bottom edges. The soft salmon-pink border is patterned with sprays of blossoms and leaf forms, echoed in the pale palette of ivory, muted green, and apricot throughout. The field's open ground contrasts with the medallion's dense ornament, emphasizing the surface's overall pale, faded coloration.

A pale blush ground is overlaid with a diagonal lattice enclosing sprigged trees, palmettes, and radiating star-form medallions in soft coral, sage, mustard, and blue-gray. The wide olive-green border carries a repeating vine of small blossoms and rosettes, framed by a narrower banded stripe of stylized flowerheads in coral and cream. The corners of the border show slight variation in the arrangement of the small motifs, suggesting a hand-drawn rather than mechanically repeated pattern.

A square field is divided into four striped quadrants radiating from a central pale-gold medallion set with a green star-form rosette, each quadrant filled with chevron and feathered striping in salmon, ivory and sage. Four small rectangular cartouches with rosette medallions occupy the mid-field corners, and the wide border carries a dense sequence of botanical and geometric sprigs in green, apricot and pink against a soft sage ground. Colors throughout are muted - salmon, sage green, straw yellow and dusty pink - giving the whole surface a faded, sun-bleached quality.

An ivory ground carries an allover lattice of interlocking diamond medallions formed by scrolling vinework, each compartment centered with a small rosette rendered in soft coral, sage, and muted gold. The main border repeats palmette and rosette forms strung along a meandering vine on a pale straw ground, flanked by narrow guard stripes in the same restrained palette. The overall tonality is uniformly light, with color reserved almost entirely for the drawing rather than large fields of saturation.