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    The field, a deep blackish-navy ground, is densely filled with a tree-and-animal design: slender flowering branches, scattered blossoms, birds in flight, and small deer or gazelle figures grazing near the lower and upper edges. A rust-brown guard band frames the field, followed by a wide indigo border carrying a repeating floral-and-vine lattice, with narrower striped and floral guard bands at the outer edges. The palette throughout combines ivory, rose, and camel tones against the dark ground and blue border.

    Faraghan Sarouk

    An ivory field is covered with a dense, small-scale scrolling floral vine and blossom pattern, centered on a large multi-pointed medallion in rust, midnight blue, and gold with a rosette core, extended by pendant finials at top and bottom. Rust-colored spandrels fill the corners with matching floral scrollwork, and the wide rust border carries a continuous meandering vine with palmettes, framed by narrower guard stripes in blue and gold on cream grounds. Colors throughout are warm rust, ivory, deep blue, and muted gold, with a small worn patch visible along the lower left edge.

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    An overall lattice of scrolling red vine and palmette forms covers a deep indigo ground, each rosette anchored by small octagonal medallions in rust, ivory, and slate blue. A narrow steel-blue guard stripe frames the field, followed by a wide tan border filled with an angular vine-and-blossom repeat. The dense, uniform repeat runs to the outer edges with no central medallion, leaving the whole field as a single continuous pattern.

  • The New York Times. April 26, 2017
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