SIXTEEN new MouseRug® designs are hereby launching simultaneously, the greatest number of images ever added to the collection!
These designs, developed with four new licensors and two current licensors, have required almost a year of design development and color work. We hope you enjoy them and that the images will move you to try a MouseRug®, add to your collection, or delight someone with a terrific and original gift idea.
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No two Navajo rugs are exactly alike; however, with practice one can trace many rugs to their place of origin. This is possible because certain trading posts produce rugs of distinctive style, pattern and color. Perfect examples of such distinct styled rugs are those made at Teec Nos Pas.
Located near the common boundary point of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah, is Teec Nos Pas. Pronounced “Tees – Nahs- Pas” and meaning: Trees in a Circle” in Navajo, takes its name from the cottonwood trees that grow around the water at the trading post’s remote location. These rugs are the most distinctive of all the Navajo's specialized textile types because of their design complexity and abundance and variety of color. The Teec Nos Pas reserves its greatest appeal for the serious collector.
Kuba cloths are woven from thin strands cut from raffia palm leaves – a skill still widely practiced in Africa today. The men weave the simple cloths and the women embellish the cloths with embroidered raffia borders and graphic geometric patterns. This MouseRug resembles one such beautiful pattern.
18,90 EUR
incl. 19 % Tax excl.
Scrolling Lotuses is a late 18th or early 19th century design typical of the “Ningxia” style, with its sparse color palette consisting of shades of blue on an ivory ground, with an outer band that serves to “frame” the composition. This MouseRug® interpretation features color-coordinated natural (oyster) color fringe accents.
From the 16th century until the middle of the 19th century trade between New Mexico and Mexico flourished. Although there were a variety of woven goods produced as part of this trade, the single item in greatest demand was the Rio Grande blanket, a general term encompassing the entire weaving tradition of Hispanic New Mexico. Rio Grande blankets demonstrate great variety in design, but many, such as the one that inspired this MouseRug/CoasterRug, feature elements borrowed from the weavings of “Saltillo-style” serapes, made in many places in Mexico. Some of those ”borrowed” elements are evident in this rug: the serrated central diamond, bold geometric patterns and striped borders.
The original piece that inspired this MouseRug/CoasterRug was made in Mexico in the late 1880s and is a very unusual example of a Saltillo-style serape. Other than the fact that it is longer than it is wide – a traditional serape quality – the overall design is quite a departure from the bright colors, central diamond motifs, and border stripes one associates with Saltillos. The weaver of this textile created something quite original by using natural wools, indigo dye and a checkerboard pattern. The result is as equally bold and optically dynamic as a traditional Saltillo-style serape but overall distinctively different and fresh.
One of the most detailed, engaging classic Persian Carpet patterns we have reproduced as a MouseRug--in deep, rich colors. This pattern is inspired by a Persian Mahi Tabriz rug design. It uses a very fine example of the curvilinear Herati pattern in its execution. The pattern is sometimes also called the Fish and Turtle design.
The Turkoman tribes of northern Afghanistan and Central Asia form a large family of related peoples: shepherds, horsemen and tent dwellers. Following traditions that changed little over the centuries, Turkoman women created trappings, bags and carpets, using wool from the Karakul sheep. The natural black, grey, brown and less common ivory setting off the richly dyed rusts and reds.
Each tribe has its own designs and motifs, but all are recognizably part of the larger "Boukara" family. The original piece inspiring this (MouseRug/CoasterRug) was once the front of a bag, but along with so many similar pieces, the back was removed in order to turn this into a conventional rug. Its rich deep burnt orange field contrasts well with the rich red highlights and the undyed blacks and grays used throughout.
18,90 EUR
incl. 19 % Tax excl.
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