Millefleur

Millefleur (French, 'a thousand flowers') describes a field densely covered with small flowers and flowering sprays. Museums use the term for a group of eighteenth-century Kashmir rugs with an arched niche, which may have served as prayer rugs, and the V&A applies it to a Farahan rug with a prayer arch from about 1850.

Also Mille fleurs · thousand flowers

See also Mehrab (prayer design), All-over design (repeat), Farahan

Last reviewed November 2026