The Garden Carpet

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The garden carpet.

Explore carpet colors patterns textures. The oldest surviving and most beautiful carpet of this type is a very large example almost 29 feet long that belongs to the. So the grandeur of the avenues in the wagner carpet is missing in the more compact scale of drawing in the jaipur carpet. Except for pulling an occasional weed from the squares a carpet based garden mulch requires little care.

Garden carpet most of the literal representations of gardens that appear in persian carpets combine an aerial or bird s eye view of the classic four part garden chahar bagh with bands and squares of pavilions trees flowers and birds shown in vertical projection. The design consists of a central watercourse with tributary canals of various sizes interrupted by islands or by ponds containing waterfowl and fishes lined by avenues of stylized small trees and shrubs that. The wagner garden carpet however has its own special design. I have considered laying old carpet or carpet underlay with the hope that this will remain damp then top dressing then a new lawn.

And your plants will thrive. I put some down 10 12 years ago at the side of the house and covered with small river pebbles and a few weeds have only just started to appear this past few years. The synthetic carpet would be good for paths and between rows in your vege garden. Photo by john krill.

For comparison in the wagner garden carpet which is quite a bit smaller the avenues of trees are close to a metre high compared with perhaps forty centimetres in the jaipur carpet. What s more the creatures and foliage in those sections are oriented so that a person sitting at the centre of the. Garden carpet floor covering designed as a persian garden seen from directly above.