Lezgin Star Weave takes its structure from a 19th-century Caucasian village rug: a dark indigo wool field, three serrated eight-point stars stacked on the centre axis in madder red, ivory rosettes scattered as filler, and a wide ivory border of leaf-and-calyx repeats held between sawtooth guard stripes.

Nothing in it curves. A knot grid cannot draw an arc, so every diagonal climbs as a staircase and every colour stops dead at a knot line. The palette is what a village dye vat produced — madder root, indigo, saffron-rust, gold, undyed camel wool — and the horizontal drift of abrash is left visible rather than corrected away.