Mongolian Pictorial Pile Rug with Landscape Motif

A whole valley, with a bridge, three houses and one distant peak, all in the pile.

This pictorial pile rug with landscape motif is from Mongolia, made of wool. Pictorial rugs from this part of Asia borrow from the conventions of ink landscape painting, turning hills and pines into a scene that could cover a floor or hang on a wall. Against a midnight blue sky, a pale peak rises behind blue-edged ridges. Below, houses, bridges and dark-leafed trees sit on a sand-colored ground, among small mounds. Five feet long and about two and a half wide.

You could walk this path, if you did not mind taking your shoes off.