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hi horst

that you find the first of these 2 kilims more authentic in terms of dye is really interesting and surprising to me.

i would have thought in terms of dyes, the second looked better but not necessarily more authentic. the patchy (i use this word to describe abrash that does not appeal to me) dyes in the first kilim look to my eye a crude attempt at creating natural abrash.

the teal green in the mirhab of the 2nd kilim also looks far more 'natural'. and it is that very patchiness, couple with the flatness of colour that leads me to believe these are fairly recent.

while the 2nd piece doesn't have patchiness, it still has a rather flat palette.

then again, the images pierre posted also appear 'patchy' so perhaps it is for that reason too that i do not particularly like those examples either (though i love the main 'tree' border of the 2nd piece FIG 2. Turkish. Eastern Anatolia

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