Anatolian kilim with eli-belinde motif design, 155 x 371cm, circa 1800. Some damage and loses. This kilim is unusual in several ways: 1. most eli-belinde type kilims have side borders with motifs differing from the main field motifs. Borderless examples are rare ( see p. 83 in Wolff-Diepenbrock Collection). In my kilim it appears that the weaver has begun to introduce non field motifs along one side to approximate a border, but did not continue for the full lenth of the side. The other side has no border like motifs; 2. the range of colors is atypically large;3. the colors of the eli-belinde motifs are not ordered into diagonal, horozontal, or vertical rows, rather, they are randomly colored to create an overall kalaidoscopic play of colors.