Soumak

An overall lattice of scrolling vine and palmette forms spreads across a mustard-gold ground, punctuated by small polychrome rosettes in coral, ivory, and slate blue that repeat in a mirrored, symmetrical arrangement top to bottom. The wide dark indigo border carries a continuous rhythm of stylized floral cartouches connected by curling stems, framed by narrower coral and cream guard stripes with small repeating blossoms. The overall palette stays within gold, rust, indigo, and cream, with the pattern density concentrated at the corners and midpoints of the field.

Commissioned by Shah Abus for Persian Courts

The deep teal field carries an allover repeat of cypress-like trees and vases sprouting curling ivory tendrils, interspersed with palmettes in rust, gold, and pale blue. A rust-ground border filled with rosettes and scrolling vine frames the field, flanked by narrower guard stripes in ivory and blue with small floral devices.

The deep indigo field carries an overall lattice of angular, sickle-leaved vines forming a diamond trellis, each compartment centered by a rosette in rust, ivory, and pale blue. Interspersed cloud-band and palmette forms in camel and light blue break the lattice rhythm, with a large radiating floral medallion emerging at the lower end of the field. A wide ivory border of scrolling floral vine encloses the field, framed by narrower guard stripes in rust and dark blue patterned with small rosettes.

An overall lattice of scrolling floral palmettes and rosettes fills the rust-red field, rendered in muted blue, ivory, soft green, and camel tones. A dark chocolate-brown border with a repeating floral vine encloses the field, framed by a series of narrower ivory and tan guard stripes. The pattern runs edge to edge without a central medallion, giving the field an open, continuous quality.

The dark navy field is filled with a dense allover pattern of scrolling floral vines, palmettes, and rosettes rendered in gold, rust, and sage green, with a central pole-medallion axis of blossoms running top to bottom. A wide rust-red border carries a repeating floral and leaf lattice, framed by narrower gold and secondary guard stripes with small angular motifs.

Commissioned by the Anglo-Swiss firm of Ziegler & Co.

The rust-colored field carries an overall lattice of curling ivory vine stems connecting palmettes and small lozenge medallions in blue, cream, ochre, and dark brown. Scattered among the lattice are angular cloud-band and leaf forms in slate blue and mustard, each cell centered on a diamond or rosette. The wide ivory border repeats the same scrolling vine and palmette motif in blue, rust, and brown, framed by a series of narrow guard stripes with small floral repeats.

Commissioned by Ziegler & Co.

An ivory field is overlaid with a lattice of curling stems that frame alternating rosettes in rust, soft blue, and green, each diamond compartment centered on a small palmette. The wide border repeats large serrated leaf and blossom clusters in warm rust and taupe against a grey-brown ground, with a narrow floral guard stripe separating it from the field. Colors throughout are muted, the palette built from ivory, camel, rust, sage, and pale blue.

An ivory ground carries an allover palmette lattice, with large serrated leaf blossoms in rust and cream anchored along a central vine, punctuated by small navy leaf and blossom sprays scattered across the field. The rust-colored main border repeats a run of palmettes and cloud-band leaves in ivory and navy, framed by narrow guard stripes of small rosettes on a pale ground. The design maintains near mirror symmetry top to bottom and side to side, broken slightly by minor variations in the placement of the small navy accents.