Tibetan Wool Floral Rug

Orange blossoms on dark blue. Tibet has rarely needed much persuading on color.

This floral rug comes from Tibet and dates to the 20th century. It is wool. Tibetan households and monks laid pile rugs of this modest size on low benches and beds, as mats for sitting by day and sleeping by night. Three large flowers stack down a deep blue field, coral above and below with a golden one between them. Thin stems sprout leaves in rust, cream, slate and pale pink, and striped rock forms fill all four corners. Just over five feet long.

Sit on it or hang it. The flowers will keep either way.