Bamboo Rugs
Bamboo Material Peter F. Stone. 2013. Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins. North Clarendon :Tuttle. Bamboo is sometimes depicted in Chinese rugs. As a Taoist symbol, [...]
Bamboo Material Peter F. Stone. 2013. Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins. North Clarendon :Tuttle. Bamboo is sometimes depicted in Chinese rugs. As a Taoist symbol, [...]
Acrylic Material Peter F. Stone. 2013. Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins. North Clarendon :Tuttle. A synthetic fiber of acrylonitrile. Acrylic may be dyed before extrusion [...]
Silk Material Peter F. Stone. 2013. Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins. North Clarendon :Tuttle. Very fine fibers drawn from the cocoon of the moth Bombyx [...]
Wool Material Wool rugs possess wonderful qualities and are the preferred choice for floor coverings. Extremely durable and resilient, and requiring very little care and maintenance, wool rugs are also breathtakingly [...]
Tree Of Life Pattern Tree Of Life Pattern is a pervasive motif in oriental rugs, occurring in many variations, naturalistic, geometricized, and abstract. Generally, any primary design motif with a long [...]
Striped Pattern The striped pattern is consistent in fabrics, parallel lines or bands of color, pattern, or texture.Peter F. Stone. 2013. Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, and Origins. [...]
Prayer Pattern A rug with a representation of a mihrab (prayer niche) or “gateway to paradise.” Columns may be shown supporting the arch and a lamp may be shown hanging from [...]
Paisley Pattern Paisley or Boteh rugs are made within or in the surrounding area of Hamedan, which sits at about 6500 feet above sea level in Northwestern Iran. They are named [...]
Medallion Pattern A large enclosed portion of a design is usually located in the center of the field. Common shapes are diamonds, octagons, ovoids, hexagons, and stars. Medallions may be lobed [...]
Kheshti Pattern A Bakhtiari rug pattern of rectangular compartments each containing botanical motifs or a mihrab. A garden carpet pattern.Peter F. Stone. 2013. Oriental Rugs: An Illustrated Lexicon of Motifs, Materials, [...]
Garden Pattern Garden Carpets with rectangular compartments containing floral motifs. The earliest of such carpets from the seventeenth century represented Safavid gardens. Their compartments are elaborations of the chahâr bâgh, the [...]
Animal Pattern A very wide range of animals has been used in oriental rug designs. Animals have been represented naturalistically, as in the Persian hunting carpets. Through progressive stylization and abstraction, [...]