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With a bold and sophisticated spirit, the Kalash collection takes inspiration from Verneh rugs, woven between the 19th and 20th centuries in the Soumak style, an ancient technique used to create a thick and durable textile surface. With this collection, Battilossi highlights the value of complexity, embellishing the base of each carpet with intricate embroideries that give three-dimensionality and dynamism to the dense decorative motifs derived from classical sources. Densely baroque motifs are made more spacious and the curvilinear patterns, which in Caucasian carpets from the 16th to the early 18th century represented dragons, are simplified and become geometric, showing repeated S-shaped and helical abstractions. Hand-knotted in pure Ghazni wool, the Kalash collection rugs have a wonderful palette of dark reds, ocher, light blue which, combined with the abrage effect, give a suggestive refined and vintage look. Some rugs in the collection feature intense shades of purple and teal in perfect balance with the bright accents in the borders and fields. There are three designs (Joya, Kara and Venta), all passed through a dense repetition of patterns.