Indian Pile Rug with Barkcloth Motif

Wavy lines and a scatter of dark flecks, like footprints that could not settle on a direction.

This pile rug with barkcloth motif comes from India and is contemporary, knotted in Himalayan wool. Its design draws on the painted barkcloths of the Mbuti people of the Ituri forest, where men prepare the pounded bark and women paint it with abstract patterns. Dark lines ripple across a sand-colored field, and short irregular dashes fill the spaces between them in loose rows. The brown on beige keeps to the earth tones of the original cloths, and the pile is thick and even. It is 4.1 feet wide and 6 long.

A forest sketch, made thick enough to walk on.