Soumak

Beni Ourain

An open ivory field is left largely bare, crossed by thin brown horizontal lines and scattered short dashes of varying length. Below a band of small comb-like marks, the lower field carries a loose scatter of small glyphs - hooks, ovals, and short vertical bars - with four narrow striped columns descending toward the bottom edge. Plain warp fringe finishes both ends, with a stray red thread knotted near one corner.

Berber

A solid dark brown field is left entirely open, uninterrupted apart from a single horizontal band of pale, irregular flecked striping crossing the lower third. This field is set within a plain wide ivory border, unadorned except for the natural variegation of its surface, with loose fringe visible along the lower edge.

Berber

A field of solid abraded blue, its surface animated by rows of staggered rectangular blocks in rust, moss green, ochre, taupe and pale coral, each block filled with small linear or dotted motifs in cream and white. The blocks are arranged in offset horizontal bands rather than a strict grid, with irregular spacing between them, and a plain narrow border edged with small notched marks in gold and cream frames the composition.

Berber

An open ivory field carries a single elongated diamond outlined in a soft brown line, its apex touching the upper edge and its lower point nearly reaching the fringe. The composition is otherwise unadorned, with no border, letting the pile's natural variations in tone read as subtle striations across the ground. Loose warp ends form a modest fringe along the bottom edge.

Berber

An open ivory field, left almost entirely bare, is interrupted by a scattering of small brown vertical marks near the upper edge and three longer, thicker brown bands rising from the lower border. The composition is markedly asymmetrical, with no repeating pattern or enclosing border to frame the field. Loose, undyed fringe finishes both ends.

Berber

The field is left entirely open, an undyed cream ground with a soft, cloud-like variation of tone running from ivory to pale tan across the surface. Two small brown squares sit asymmetrically off-center, one slightly higher and to the left, the other lower and to the right, the only applied color on the piece. Both ends finish in long, loosely twisted fringe left in the natural undyed shade.

Berber

An expanse of undyed ivory pile left largely open, with scattered small brown diamond and dash motifs concentrated toward the lower third and thinning out as they rise, echoed by a few isolated diamonds set higher in the field. Both ends finish in long, loosely twisted ivory-toned fringe, with no border framing the composition.

Berber

An open, undecorated ivory field dominates the piece, its plush surface catching light unevenly across the pile. A single row of small dark brown marks interrupts the emptiness near the upper third: four thin vertical dashes flanking a solid square, spaced irregularly rather than symmetrically. Warp fringes finished in twisted, knotted cords edge the top and bottom.

Berber

An almost entirely open field in undyed ivory pile, its surface left plain apart from three thin, irregularly drawn brown lines running horizontally across the lower third. There is no border to speak of, the field running edge to edge and terminating in loose warp fringe at top and bottom. The wavering, hand-drawn quality of the lines is the only interruption to an otherwise blank expanse.

Berber

An open ivory field is dominated by a single large diamond outlined in a fine zigzag line of soft brown, its four points reaching to the centers of each border edge. The plain ground shows subtle tonal variation from cream to pale gold, with no additional motifs beyond the diamond outline, and the piece finishes in loosely knotted fringe at top and bottom.

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