Soumak

Tuareg Mat

The field is divided into a lower and upper register of small repeating diamonds worked in golden-tan against a deep chocolate-brown ground, separated by a central band of vertical panels alternating plain dark stripes with columns of nested diamonds and fine striping. The palette shifts subtly across the surface from rust-red to near-black, giving an uneven, sun-worn quality to the ground color. Loose warp fringe is visible at both the top and bottom edges.

Tuareg Mat

Diamond pattern

The open, pale straw-colored ground is crossed by dark concentric lozenges radiating outward from a central point, each nested diamond outlined in a fine dotted line. Smaller diamond and cross motifs fill the interior compartments, while the corners carry partial chevron-like fragments where the pattern is cut by the edges. Loose, unfinished fringes remain visible along the top and bottom borders.

Tuareg Mat

A tawny gold ground, finely striated with vertical striping, is worked entirely in outline rather than solid color. Stepped cross and diamond forms in a warm brown line the field in a symmetrical arrangement, with tall cross finials anchoring each upper corner and a slender cross-topped column running down each side. The composition is left otherwise open, with no enclosing border, so the linear motifs float directly against the plain ground.

Tuareg Mat

The field is organized in vertical bands of deep rust and blackened brown, each panel filled with fine zigzag and diamond lattice patterning in a slightly lighter tone. Narrow striped bands in ochre and dark red run between the wider panels, some marked with small dark dots arranged in a single file down their length. The lower edge ends in a long, loose fringe of twisted warp ends left unbound.

Tuareg Mat

An open, finely striated ground in golden tan is crossed by a repeating zigzag lattice rendered in a darker brown, forming a continuous chevron pattern from top to bottom. The border is minimal, a narrow plain band in the same brown tone framing the field on all sides. No additional motifs, inscriptions, or corner devices are visible.

Tuareg Mat

A flat, reed-like woven mat in warm ochre and rust tones, its surface built from horizontal ribs through which the pattern is worked in a darker brick-red. The central field carries a stepped, key-shaped medallion with a small diamond at its heart, framed by nested rectangular borders of interlocking meander and hook motifs. An outer band of serrated triangles and small diamonds runs along all four sides, and the piece finishes in loose, uneven fringe at top and bottom.

Tuareg Mat

The field is organized in vertical bands alternating a dense zigzag lattice in deep burgundy against a natural straw ground with narrower stripes of small diamond and chevron motifs in the same burgundy tone. A wide central column of tightly stacked chevrons in dark red anchors the composition, flanked symmetrically by the patterned stripes running the full length of the piece. The edges show plain reddish-brown selvages, with the natural material left visible at the top and bottom terminations.

Tuareg Mat

A pale straw-colored ground centers on a large stepped, diamond-shaped medallion in rust red filled with a lattice of small diamonds, flanked by four smaller stepped cornerpieces echoing the same jagged geometry and diamond-lattice fill. Narrow paired diamond motifs sit isolated at either side of the field, and the border repeats a fine zigzag line within red and ochre bands framed by plain outer stripes. Fringe remains loose and irregular at both ends, and a small pale rectangular patch interrupts the pattern near the lower edge of the central medallion.

Tuareg Mat

The field is divided into vertical bands alternating a golden striated ground with darker brown-maroon panels, several of which carry small lozenge medallions worked in cream, green, and black. Narrow zigzag and diamond-patterned borders run along the top and bottom edges, framing the composition, while the field itself remains largely open aside from the striped columns and scattered diamond motifs. The overall palette is warm ochre and gold set against deep brown and touches of green, with a dark, undyed selvage visible at the top and bottom edges.

Tuareg Mat

The field is a plain woven ground divided into six vertical panels by narrow reserve strips, its surface animated by an overall watery, moiré-like rippling of tone that shifts between straw-gold and warm rust-brown. No border framing device or figural motif interrupts the field; the effect reads as pure abstract movement across the panels, with a fringed edge visible along the top and bottom.

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