Soumak

Needlepoint

A deep crimson ground is scattered with a regular grid of gold fleur-de-lis, each rendered in a soft ochre tone that contrasts crisply against the saturated red. A narrow meander, or running key, border in matching gold outlines all four edges, echoing the geometry of the interior pattern. The field appears to be pieced from several vertical panels, faintly visible where the ground color shifts slightly in tone.

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    Needlepoint

    A dense bouquet of full-blown roses, peonies, and small blue and lavender blossoms fills the deep green field, rendered with soft pink, cream, gold, and sage-green shading. The wide outer border repeats the same floral garland on a matching green ground, separated from the field by a narrow ivory band patterned with a compact geometric key motif. The overall composition reads almost like an embroidered garden panel rather than a conventional medallion carpet.

    Needlepoint

    A sage-green ground encloses three pink-toned compartments, each framed and filled with a scrolling acanthus motif in ochre, ivory, and green, the central panel distinguished by a rosette medallion in pale blue and gold. The border is a continuous ribbon-twist of pink, blue, and cream interspersed with yellow four-petaled flowers at the corners and midpoints. The three-panel format reads almost like a triptych, each compartment a variation on the same foliate theme rather than an exact repeat.

    Needlepoint

    The deep black ground is divided by a sage-green grid into fifteen compartments, each holding a distinct floral bouquet worked in reds, yellows, pinks, lavenders and greens, with tulips, roses, daffodils and mixed sprays varying from cell to cell. A wide green border encloses the field, filled with a continuous garland of similar flowers and trailing foliage that echoes the palette of the interior bouquets. No two of the fifteen floral groupings repeat exactly, giving the overall grid a handmade, sampler-like irregularity.

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    Needlepoint

    A deep black ground carries scattered rose bouquets arranged in loose rows, each cluster combining full-blown pink and pale mauve blooms with sage-green and mustard foliage and slender curling stems. The border repeats the same rose motif at regular intervals against the same black ground, separated from the field by a thin golden-tan line. The composition is symmetrical top to bottom and side to side, with buds and single leaves filling the spaces between the larger bouquets.

    Needlepoint

    The pale grey-blue field is scattered with a regular grid of small rose sprigs in coral pink and soft yellow, each accented with green leaves. A wide border of larger rose bouquets, arranged in loose diagonal clusters, runs along all four sides, framed by a slender twisted rope-like guard stripe in cream and tan.

    Needlepoint

    The field is divided by ivory grid lines into fifteen dark navy compartments, each set with a floral bouquet or a single small blossom in alternating arrangement, the flowers rendered in pink, lavender, yellow, cream and white with green stems. A pale beige border encloses the field, patterned with a checked ground and a repeating sequence of small rosettes in matching pink, lavender, yellow and rust tones, framed by a slender dark outer line.

    Needlepoint

    The field is organized into a grid of twenty-five octagonal medallions on a deep navy ground, each enclosing a distinct floral bouquet or, in four corners of the grid, a small perched bird among foliage. Ochre-gold lattice work separates the octagons, with small quatrefoil devices filling the interstices, while a wide border of dense, overlapping garden flowers - roses, tulips, daisies, and morning glories in pink, yellow, blue, and cream - frames the entire composition. No two central medallions repeat the same flower grouping, giving the overall grid a sampler-like variety.

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