Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern

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A lozenge diaper pattern of floral stems provides visual structure to this millefleur carpet with hundreds of densely arranged flowers. In a break from more typical millefleur designs in which flowers fill a niche-like space or simply cover the entire field with an abundance of blossoms, the flowers of this carpet are arranged in a repeating geometric pattern. The presence of five and seven blossoms clustered on each stem was typical of millefleur carpets produced in the preceding century in Kashmir.

Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

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Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile
Millefleur Carpet with a Flower-and-Trellis Pattern, Cotton (warp and weft), wool (pile); asymmetrically knotted pile

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