The field guide · Motifs
Animals and figures
Village and tribal rugs often set small animals, birds and human figures among their main motifs, drawn freely rather than from a cartoon. In gabbehs a stick figure or a few stylised animals may be the only pattern on an open field of colour.
Also figures · Animal Garden · Wild Sheep · camel · horses · stag
See also Lion rug (gabbeh-ye shiri), Pictorial rug, Morghi (birds)
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