Vintage Kilim Composition
Inspired by a floor in a room setting by G. Rosso exhibited in Turin, Italy in 1928
Inspired by a floor in a room setting by G. Rosso exhibited in Turin, Italy in 1928
An overall lattice of soft beige and taupe panels forms the ground, each segment striated with fine directional lines suggesting movement across the surface. Across this grid burst clusters of fanned, wedge-shaped rays in ivory, warm brown, and charcoal, radiating outward like scattered bursts or feathers of varying sizes. The motifs are placed asymmetrically, denser toward the lower corners and thinning near the center, with no border framing the composition.
The field is organized as a grid of individual squares in varying tones of brown and taupe, each square set slightly askew within its cell against an ivory ground, so the seams read as a loose lattice rather than a straight line. There is no border in the traditional sense; the checkerboard arrangement runs to the edges on all sides. The palette stays within a narrow range of warm neutrals, with only subtle shifts in saturation distinguishing one square from its neighbors.
A patchwork field of rectangular panels in varying shades of chocolate, charcoal, and warm grey-brown, each panel showing its own directional striping from ivory-flecked strands to near-solid dark brown. The panels are arranged in a staggered brick-like grid, joined by visible pale stitched seams that outline every block. The composition has no border, the seams themselves forming the only structural lines across the surface.
The field is composed of a modular grid of rectangular blocks in varying tones of ivory, tan, and camel, each panel showing subtle striations from its original piece. At each intersection of the blocks sits a small square in a darker taupe-brown, forming a regular grid of accent squares across the entire surface, with no distinct border framing the composition.
The field is built from a geometric lattice of octagons and interlocking squares, each cell pieced from a distinct rectangular patch of tonal fabric, giving the surface a patchwork, quilt-like quality. Colours run through a narrow, restrained range of taupe, beige, warm sand, and soft grey, with visible seam lines stitched in a contrasting pale thread outlining every shape. There is no separate border; the geometric pattern runs edge to edge, cropped by the piece's rectangular format.
Design inspired by "The Hall of Echo"--Palazzo Orsetti, Italy
The field is filled edge to edge with an interlocking Y-shaped tumbling-block pattern that reads as a repeating three-dimensional lattice, each block rendered in three tonal panels of taupe, camel, and ivory to suggest illuminated facets. There is no separate border; the geometric grid simply runs to the outer edge on all sides, its uniform scale and stitched outlines giving the surface a crisp, graphic regularity.
The field is composed of small rectangular blocks arranged in a basketweave pattern, each block oriented alternately horizontal and vertical to create a herringbone-like diagonal movement across the surface. Tonal variation within each block ranges from pale ivory through soft tan to warm honey brown, with faint striations running along the length of each segment. There is no distinct border; the patchwork pattern extends edge to edge without a framing device.
The entire field is set on the diagonal with a checkerboard of small squares alternating between ivory and shifting tones of taupe, tan, and dark brown, each square showing a subtle directional striation from the surface. There is no distinct border; the diagonal grid runs uninterrupted to the edges of the field. The composition reads as an even, allover lattice with no central medallion or corner motifs.