Soumak

PURE FELTED WOOL

Design: 4400 Boyd's Flede

The field is left entirely open, an undyed ivory ground flecked irregularly with dark brown and grey fibers, with no border, motif, or pattern to interrupt the surface. A circular inset at the lower right offers a close-up of the looped, textured surface, showing the same speckled mix of ivory, taupe, and charcoal at closer range. The edges are finished with a simple looped selvage along all sides.

Pure Wool Weave

Design: 4406 9 Salt & Pepper

The field is divided into a regular grid of small squares on a golden ground, each compartment holding a single sprig of stylized flowers or a leaf rendered in muted red, green, and cream. A wide blue-violet border frames this grid with scrolling acanthus vines in gold and cream, punctuated at the corners and mid-sides by oval cartouches containing floral bouquets or urn-like vase forms. The overall palette contrasts the warm amber interior against the cooler blue border, with repeated small round medallions echoing the field's floral theme.

Composed of 49 panels, each with a dark brown ground & varied floral motifs, enclosed by a liliac border of fruiting vines.  Provenance; The Christopher Hodsoll Collection.

The field is organized in a repeating lattice of interlocking octagons and pinwheel-form stars, alternating ivory, deep red, and mustard-gold blossoms set within a fine dark grid. A wide border of trailing grapevine, curling leaves, and clustered fruit in olive, gold, and rust runs continuously around the perimeter, with cross-shaped corner motifs echoing the field's star forms.

An overall lattice of interlocking medallions fills the ivory field, each roundel enclosing a cluster of rust-red flowers set against pale blue and green sprigs, connected by scrolling golden foliate bands that form a diaper pattern across the whole ground. The border is a dark olive-brown ground carrying a continuous scrolling acanthus vine in tan and gold, framed by narrow plain guard stripes in mustard and cream. The repeat is precise and unbroken corner to corner, with no field left open.

The field is arranged as a regular grid of pale mint medallions, each enclosing a dark brown roundel with a stylized green and chartreuse leaf sprig, set against a warm tan ground. The border carries a sinuous meandering vine in the same mint tone scattered with individual green leaves on a beige ground, framed by narrow dark brown and green guard stripes.

The field is organized as a diamond lattice in rust and slate blue, each compartment enclosing a small floral rosette on an ivory ground, with larger ivory diamonds at regular intervals holding fuller bouquets of pink, cream, and rust blossoms. A narrow gold and cream banded border frames the composition without additional figuration. The palette throughout stays within rust, gold, slate blue, and ivory.

A deep green field is scattered with a repeating diaper of small gold four-petaled florets and stylized palmette forms, densely arranged over the entire ground. At center, a laurel-wreathed rosette in cream and gold anchors a symmetrical composition of four oval medallions containing pale grisaille urn-and-scroll motifs flanked by delicate swags of laurel leaves. A narrow guard border of alternating gold and mauve leaf forms frames the whole on a matching green ground.