Rug (Saddle rug)

Rectangular shape with rounded corners; hand woven pile saddle rug of hand spun wool yarns: Tibetan looping technique (rather than knots) used in creating the pile; blue on red knot-like central medallion in dark blue field; six small flower-like geometric motifs also in field above and below central medallion (light blue on white with green single knot centers); filed surrounded by narrow white and light blue borders, a pearl border of white dots on a dark blue ground, followed by a narrow light blue band, a band of dark blue swastika meander on a white ground, surrounded by a narrow light blue band and an outer wider dark blue band; filed and border shapes are echoed in the rounded corner of the overall shape of the rug; fragments of dark brown wool yarn appear to be the remnants of previous stitching lines that ran parallel to one another spaced across the short dimension of the rug.