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Muharramat (stripes) محرمات

Muharramat is a striped design: the field is divided into parallel bands, usually running the length of the rug, each filled with its own colour or small repeating motif. In Persian the word also means a multicoloured striped cloth.

Also Moharramat · Muhrammat · Muharammat · Muhramat · striped design

See also Checkered (shatranji), Alvan

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Muharramat: Sirjan Muharramat Persian Kilim Rug, the whole piece
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In the collection

Muharramat, in the collection.

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