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Tibetan Rugs
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If you are searching for the mysterious mood of old Asia and want to add some oriental toches to the rooms of your home then you should think of getting some sort of oriental rugs.
One interesting kind of Oriental rugs is Tibetan rugs. They were and are being made in high mountain regions of Tibet(which is situated on the southwest of China).
Tibetan cold mountain climate force its native inhabitants to highly depend on production of wool. This fact led to a developed rugs making culture.
One main thing singles tibetan rugs out from other types of Oriental rugs. They all have bright and intense colors.
Color tones usually used in tibetan rugs' designs are blue, black, red and orange.
Tibetan rugs have a enormous amount of designs that can be foud in their motiffs. These themes mostly are of nature or religion. Some sort of simple geometric forms(that includes stripes, lines and medallions) can also be the design themes of the tibetan rugs.
Intended use of all the tibetan rugs is always defines the designs used in them. Small tibetan rugs were usually made for monasteries to be used ceremonial and ritual procedures. Therefor their design was religious(such as religion designs or mythological animals and birds). For the bigger tibetan rugs the use as covering from bad weather conditions was intended so they contained wild nature motifs.
Tibetan rugs are very strong and durable so they can withstand the tuff conditions of cold mountain tibetan climate. Because of that tibetan rugs can be safly used in high traffic areas.
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