WikiRug:Featured Article/2023/29

Mongolian Carpet or Mongolian Rug is one of the eastern rugs that woven in Mongolia.
Traditional rugs of Mongolia are quilted felt rugs (shirdeg or toiruulga). There are similar felt tent flaps and mats (olbog). The attribution of old pile rugs (xives) to Mongolia is highly speculative. The earliest rugs so attributed are from the nineteenth century. These rugs show Chinese design influences. The field consists of small geometrical motifs in a dense all-over pattern.(Full article...)