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19th century Tibetan tiger rugs

Of the old Tibetan tiger rugs there are three basic groups. First are
‘flayed’ tiger rugs, pelts with arms, claws and head depicted. Second
were more abstract representations of the tiger stripe design. Third are
tigers walking in pairs, representing Yin and Yang, a Chinese
influence. Among these categories some rug scholarly-types identify
various sub-groups, such as realistic pelts with stylized stripes and
skeleton stripes, pelts with heads at both ends, pelts without heads,
stripes with rainbow ends, abstracted wavy line stripes, lip-shaped
stripes, paired stripes and so on. [Bruce McClaren, The Persian Carpet]

Images from Flickr Album by Giovanni Garcia-Fenech