Rectangular multicoloured tapestry woven rug, kilim. The decoration on the textile consists of a centre panel surrounded by 3 borders containing small geometric motifs. The centre panel contains a central diamond motif with small geometric patterns on a red ground. The outlines are in green, turquoise and brown. This is surrounded by a wided cream diamond-shaped frame containing larger semi-abstract floral motifs. The thinner borders surrounding this are brown, turquoise and red. The dark and light mid brown ground surrounding this is also patterned with semi-abstract floral motifs. At one shorter end the cream-coloured warp has been left unfinished to create fringing.
rug; textile
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