Soumak

Bessarabian

A dark olive-brown ground carries a vertical repeat of stylized floral bouquets and paired diagonal sprays springing from central rosettes, rendered in cream, mustard yellow, and brick red. Slender urn-form blossoms and serrated leaves alternate down the narrow guard borders, which frame the field in cream and soft gray with small stepped diamond fillers. The composition reads as a continuous column of matched pairs, each grouping nearly mirroring the one above and below it.

Seychour

Soumak technique

A narrow ivory panel bearing a running vine-and-leaf lattice divides the deep teal field into two mirrored halves, each densely packed with rows of hooked diamond medallions in brick red, rust, and touches of pale blue. The border is a wide coral-pink band filled with small angular star and diamond forms outlined in dark ground tones, framed by slender guard stripes. Colors throughout are muted and earthy, with the ivory column standing out sharply against the surrounding dark palette.

Seychour

A dark ground, nearly black, carries a dense all-over floral lattice in rust red, sky blue, mustard yellow, and soft pink, with two large palmette medallions set along the central axis. Smaller rosettes, serrated leaves, and vinework fill the remaining ground in a mirrored, repeating rhythm from end to end. A narrow reciprocal border in blue, red, and cream frames the field on all sides.

Needlepoint

An open golden-yellow field is scattered with a repeating diagonal grid of small rose bouquets rendered in pink and coral with green leaves and buds. A narrow burgundy border with a fine white lattice pattern frames the field on all sides, with a slightly wider border along the sides than at the top and bottom.

Turkish Kilim

A long narrow runner with an ivory ground crossed edge to edge by thin horizontal bands in dark brown and warm khaki, spaced unevenly so that clusters of lines alternate with broader stretches of open ground. No border frames the field, leaving the striping to run directly to the selvages, with a fringed finish visible at the top edge.

Needlepoint

A long narrow runner with an ivory ground scattered with an all-over pattern of large stylized blossoms, feathery acanthus leaves, and curling stems rendered in gold, rose, sage green, and slate blue. A slender guard stripe of small floral rosettes frames the field, followed by a broad olive-green border woven with a continuous chain of tulip-like buds and leaves in the same palette. The corners of the border resolve without a cartouche or medallion, leaving the field open and continuous along its length.

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