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Anatolian kilims are a writing system nobody calls writing. For centuries weavers encoded meaning in pileless rugs: the nazar eye against envy, the wolf's track asking protection for the flock, earrings announcing a wedding, the tree of life holding eternity. Weftlands makes that vocabulary playable: swap the scattered pieces back into place and each restored motif joins your atlas - 24 across 50 levels, three loom sizes. A daily kilim gives everyone the same puzzle; Sept 29's ran 21 moves against a par of 19. The roadmap: community looms where owners submit designs and vote, and a real hand-woven kilim in Anatolia drawn among owners. My open problem: the meanings. The nazar is documented ethnography. Much of the rest of the kilim symbol dictionary circulated through 20th-century dealer catalogs, and scholars dispute how much was ever weaver's intent. When a game teaches this vocabulary, is it keeping a language alive, or canonizing dealer lore?

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