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Auspicious Carpets: A Tibetan View of Aesthetics

Fig. 12: Lotus Mystery
May be a seat carpet
61 x 79 cm.
All wool

This carpet is a total mystery - no one has seen anything like it. Look carefully for the ghostly figures woven in by lama designers or playful weavers.


photographs by George Mann
carpets from the Archives of Bob van Grevenbroek

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