Tibetan Rugs
It is really nice to have an old fasioned oriental rug for decoration of your home. Such rugs allow you to bring a mysterious sense of ancient Asia right into your home. One kind of oriental rugs is tibetan rugs. They originated from Tibet which is situated on the southwest of China. Because of its mountain location Tibet has a cold climate and its native inhabitants depend on production of wool.
That gives very good conditions rugs making.
The major thing that differs tibetan rugs from other Oriental rugs is their bright and saturated color. Comonly used tibetan rugs' color include blue, black, red and orange.
There are many different kind of motifs that can be found on tibetan rug. They are usually nature or religion designs. Simple geometric form(like stripes, lines and medallions) are also found in tibetan rugs.
All the tibetan rugs designs are closely conneted with intended use of these rugs.
Small tibetan rugs are usually made to be used in monasteries for ceremonial and ritual purposes(they contain religion designs or mythological animals and birds).
The bigger tibetan rugs are intended for covering from tuff weather condition(they contain wild nature motifs).
As long as they were made for the use in heavy condition tibetan rus are very strong and durable so they can be used in high traffic areas.