Soumak

Thracian Kilim

An open ivory field is scattered with small sprays of stylized flowering plants in soft peach, sage green, and pale blue, interspersed with a few slender rock or bird-topped stems near the corners. The border is built of a diamond lattice band in green and cream flanked by a wider blue trellis band, with rounded quarter-medallions in blue and cream set into each corner of the field.

Turkish Kilim

A pale ivory field is filled with a lattice of interlocking diamonds outlined in brown, each enclosing small stepped stars, and set against a fine speckled ground of coral pink and taupe. Multiple concentric borders repeat serrated diamonds and reciprocal triangle bands in coral, brown, ivory and taupe, with a thin wavy vine motif framing the inner field. The corners and edges show slight compression in the geometric repeats, giving a subtly irregular, hand-drawn quality to the symmetry.

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