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The motifs are outlined in black squares. A red stepped lozenge is connected horizontally and vertically to a blue or brown triangle; inbetween are small yellow crosses. There is a narrow border with a red ground, and white crosses outlined in black linked by a light brown and yellow line.\r\nColour (Embroidery threads): black, red, yellow, light blue, light brown, greenish-brown.\n\r\n[2] Same pulled thread ground. There are two main motifs: a yellow diamond with four light blue S- or Z-shapes along its sides, and squared-off diamonds divided into small segments.  In between these two motifs is a diagonal dark blue rectangle with a yellow S- or Z-motif. There is a narrow border, with a yellow ground and fine black angular meander with red and light blue S- and Z-motifs.\r\nColour (Embroidery threads, 2S silk): dark blue, light blue, light pink, yellow, greenish-brown, light green, light brown, black.\r\n\nThe border is pieced blue silk brocaded with an almost boteh-like floral sprig in pink and green, with metal thread [tarnished silver strip open S-wound on a pink silk core]. 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