Soumak

A golden-yellow ground is filled with staggered rows of small stylized floral sprays, each rendered as a serrated leaf-form blossom in navy, rust, ivory, pink, and sage rising from a diamond-shaped rootstock. The narrow border alternates between a blue-grey field of small diamond lattice and a band of pink and ivory reciprocal trefoils, framing the field on all sides. Colors vary noticeably from motif to motif rather than following a fixed repeat, giving the rows an irregular, hand-varied rhythm.

The field is laid out as a diagonal trellis in golden-tan latticework, each crossing point marked by a small rosette medallion, with clusters of stylized acanthus leaves filling the pale seafoam-green diamonds between the bands. A dark chocolate-brown border encloses the composition, decorated with scrolling pink and cream vinework, while a scalloped blue-and-cream shell motif runs along the inner edge of the border on all four sides. Small foliate cartouches occupy each corner where the border meets the scalloped band.

The field is organized as an interlocking lattice of ovals in cream and olive, each compartment enclosing small floral sprays in rose, salmon, and pale blue, with rosette medallions marking the lattice intersections. A wide, dark chocolate-ground border surrounds the field, filled with large scrolling floral sprays, palmette-like blooms, and curling acanthus leaves in cream, ochre, and pink, flanked by narrower guard stripes patterned with a repeating rose-and-vine motif on a red ground.

A large lobed medallion in warm brown and cream anchors the field, its dense scrolling foliage encircling a smaller rose-pink lozenge at the center. The surrounding ground shifts from mauve-pink to deeper plum, scattered with sprays of cream, coral, and red blossoms, while the wide border repeats the same floral bouquets against a dark brown ground. The overall palette favors soft rose, ivory, and chocolate brown, with small accents of powder blue among the flowers.

A deep black ground centers a single bouquet of large coral-pink roses and pale green foliage, gathered loosely at a slender stem base. This central panel is framed by a narrow pink and cream border line, then surrounded by a wide black field carrying a continuous garland of the same roses, tulips, and leaves rendered in coral, cream, and sage. The floral drawing is bold and cross-stitch-like in its geometry, with each bloom built from angular, faceted petals rather than curving lines.

A pale ivory ground centers a classical urn spilling an abundant bouquet of roses, tulips, and mixed blossoms rendered in dusty rose, lavender, blue, and sage green. The surrounding border repeats a garland of roses and foliage interlaced with a striped ribbon motif, framing the field on all sides in a continuous floral swag. The corners resolve the ribbon and rose pattern with slight variations in scale and placement.

A rich brown field is covered overall with a scrolling floral lattice, blossoms in ivory, powder blue, aubergine and touches of apricot arranged around a central medallion of layered leaf forms. The wide ivory border carries a running vine of stylized flowers and serrated leaf motifs in the same palette, framed by narrow plain guard stripes. The composition is dense and continuous, with the field pattern reading almost as a single unbroken tapestry from top to bottom.

The field is divided into two large medallion compartments, each centered on a stippled pale ground with a loose bouquet of pink and cream roses, flanked by pointed panels containing dense floral sprays and dark serrated leaf forms in black-brown. Elongated cartouches with meander motifs and coral pink lozenges separate the compartments, all set against an ivory field. A wide border of continuous pink and gold rose garlands on a cream ground frames the composition, echoed by a narrow rope-twist guard stripe at the outer edge.

An allover lattice pattern of large rosette bouquets rendered in ivory and cream, each cradled by dark, near-black scrolling acanthus leaves that alternate across a deep red ground. Diagonal rows of these floral medallions repeat with only slight variation, the leaves curling into tight volutes at their tips, while touches of sage green, dusty rose, and soft gold fill out the petals and foliage. A narrow plain band frames the composition, left undecorated in contrast to the dense repeat within.

A dark brown ground carries an asymmetric arrangement of large-scale roses, peonies, hibiscus and ivy leaves rendered in deep red, pink, cream and gold, interspersed with curling acanthus-like scrolls in tan and ivory. A narrow rose-pink guard band and a scalloped cream-and-brown wave border frame the field, the corners left unresolved so the floral clusters run to the edge unevenly.