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new Ningxia pillar rug. Stock № D1344
100 x 400 cm (3 ' 3 " x 13 ' 1 ").
The pillar rug is an oblong rug designed to be hung around pillars in Buddhist temples and monasteries. They usually woven in Ningxia to commission for pillars up to six metres(20 ft.) high, to with they were attached either by being sewn together or by being hing eith ropes. The most common pattern is of entwined dragons. Pillar rugs have no side borders so that the body of the dragon on one side of the rug will fit in with the body on the other when the rug is wound around pillar. In the upper part of the rug there is often a "Buddhist canopy", hanging rows of jewellery and, at the base, a mountain and wave pattern. The pillar rug is coarsely knotted and has the soft silky pile typical of Ningxia rugs.
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