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kelim

Oriental carpet or rug that is flat, pileless, and reversible. Kelims are made by a tapestry-weave technique. Weft thread of one colour is worked to and fro in one area of the pattern; the next colour continues the pattern from the adjacent warp thread, so that no weft thread runs across the full width of the carpet.



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The volume consists of 49 selections, including an array of detailed paisleys with panel stripe coordinates, ikats, kilim rug designs, houndstooth textures, and a plush "Missoni" geometric.
Expect to come away with a bargain (a gorgeous handmade 60-year-old kilim in the Kurds' favored orange will run you about $100)--and an earful from this English-speaking capitalist entrepreneur who still extols the virtues of Syrian socialism.
More recent cultural interchange is revealed in the name kilim tarabulsiy ("Tripolitanian kilim") given to woolen cloths with distinctive geometric motifs woven in the region of Redeyef in southwestern Tunisia.
 
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