Kilim motifs
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title:
Kilim motifs
text:
Many motifs are used in traditional kilims, handmade flat-woven rugs, each with many variations. In Turkish Anatolia in particular, village women wove themes significant for their lives into their rugs, whether before marriage or during married life. Some motifs represent desires, such as for happiness and children; others, for protection against threats such as wolves and scorpions, or against the evil eye. These motifs were often combined when woven into patterns on kilims. With the fading of
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Symbolic elements of flat-woven rugs
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilim_motifs
date created:
2016-01-20T16:44:59Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T01:52:09Z
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