Tree Of Life Rugs
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 [...]
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, [...]
All-Over Pattern The All-over pattern in the field of a rug consisting of vertically and horizontally repeated geometrical or floral elements. Usually, the pattern is interrupted or cut off by the [...]
Mahi Pattern The Mahi, from the city of Tabriz, is one of the most elegant carpets in the world. It shows very small silk-lined fish, almost a paisley pattern, scattered neatly [...]
Herati Pattern The Herati pattern is found in rugs from around the country, although almost all rug producing countries have made this design one time or the other. It is probably one [...]
Geometric Pattern All the carpets in this group are decorated with linear elements composed of vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines. These rugs are also usually formed by the repetition of the [...]