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Framed chest motifs in cream and saffron, each holding a stepped diamond on indigo or walnut, set in a half-drop on a madder ground with small indigo diamonds between them.
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Dowry Chest

No. 2 of 20 · free · 300 dpi

What you seeFramed chest motifs in cream and saffron, each holding a stepped diamond on indigo or walnut, set in a half-drop on a madder ground with small indigo diamonds between them.

What it meansThe sandık, or chest, is an Anatolian kilim motif taken from the dowry chest in which a bride kept her woven and embroidered textiles, and it is linked with marriage and a new home.

Where it worksWarm and orderly, it suits a dining room, a bedroom or a long landing.

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3:4 · 5400 × 7200 px6×8 · 9×12 · 12×16 · 18×24 in
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A-series · 7023 × 9933 pxA5 · A4 · A3 · A2 · A1

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Paired spiralling horns in saffron and cream on deep indigo, alternating upright and inverted in staggered rows.Ram's HornNo. 3
A cream field framed by a single madder band of stepped hooks, with one small saffron diamond at its centre.Running DogNo. 4
A dense field of latch-hooked diamonds in saffron, cream and madder on indigo, with small cream diamonds set between them.Latch HookNo. 5
Thin charcoal lines step evenly across undyed cream wool to form an open lattice of tall lozenges, a few of them holding a small lozenge at the centre.Atlas LatticeNo. 6
Large charcoal lozenges, each holding a smaller one, run in a single line along a plain field of cream wool.Lozenge ColumnNo. 7
A single large stepped medallion in indigo, saffron and cream at the centre of a madder field, with quarter medallions in the corners and a chained border.MedallionNo. 8
Horizontal bands of plain colour alternate with narrow patterned rows of diamonds, zigzags and ticks, in the full kilim palette.Stripe and BandNo. 9
A close crop of the peak of a large kilim diamond, its bands of madder, cream, indigo and saffron climbing in big woven blocks on a cream ground.Woven EdgeNo. 10

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