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 quartered garden. The compartments are delineated by rectangular watercourses, often containing representations of fish and waterfowl.

There are rectangular pools or reservoirs at major intersections of the channels. Early garden carpet designs are highly variable, but a group of consistent designs is attributed to Kurdistan of about 1800.¹