The field guide · Motifs
Stars
Stars are small star-shaped motifs, often eight-pointed, worked as scattered fillers between larger motifs or set in rows and bands, in pile rugs and flatweaves alike. In Afshar kilims, small soumak-style stars in the field and along the sides are, in our experience, a mark of an original piece rather than a later copy.
Also star motif · Stars and Stripes · Sumac style stars · setareh
See also Mowj (wave), Animals and figures
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