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== Techniques and structures ==
== Techniques and structures ==
=== Color and dyeing ===
=== Color and dyeing ===
+The coloration of nineteenth- and twentieth century Heriz carpets generally features brick-red, coral-red, dark blues, or ivory in the field and border. In addition, different shades of red, blue, beige, gold, green, rust, cinnamon, brown, camel, and black are used for the design elements and outlines.<ref>Moheban, 2015, p.231</ref><br>
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=== Motifs and Designs ===
=== Motifs and Designs ===
Heriz carpet designs are geometric, in either a medallion or an allover layout. Some of the designs can be traced back to Anatolian (Turkish) village rug motifs of the seventeenth century. Heriz carpets are best known for having a large center medallion with quartered medallions in the corners of the field. The designs include large stylized palmettes, leaves, and vines, with nomadic motifs and ornaments. Some nineteenth-century Heriz carpets were woven with poetry inscriptions throughout the guard borders. Weaving poems into carpets was popular at the time, but the Heriz inscriptions often cannot be read clearly because village weavers were unable to transfer the words properly.<br>
Heriz carpet designs are geometric, in either a medallion or an allover layout. Some of the designs can be traced back to Anatolian (Turkish) village rug motifs of the seventeenth century. Heriz carpets are best known for having a large center medallion with quartered medallions in the corners of the field. The designs include large stylized palmettes, leaves, and vines, with nomadic motifs and ornaments. Some nineteenth-century Heriz carpets were woven with poetry inscriptions throughout the guard borders. Weaving poems into carpets was popular at the time, but the Heriz inscriptions often cannot be read clearly because village weavers were unable to transfer the words properly.<br>