Turkish Malatya Kilim (Chuval) Fragment. Technique: weft-less soumak technique, a rarer type of soumak weave in which ’instead of weaving the design wefts in both directions, the weaver carries them straight back across the reverse side of the textile after completing each row, so that the face of the weave shows wefts worked in one direction only. This results in a weaving with a double thickness of wefts, creating an embossed effect.’. See example: Malatya-Gaziantep Cuval. In: Arend Bandsma & Robin Brandt: Flatweaves of Turkey. 2003. Plate 81. p: 118. About 100 years old. The fragment was cleaned and mounted, conserved using linen as support. Size of linen support (Full size): 50x114cm (Fragment size: 40x104cm).