Tibetan carpet with lotus and border is by hand weaved by Tibetan Refugee living in Darjeeling, India. Lotus is the symbol of purity.
The rug is perfect due to the beautiful border design.
The lotus symbolizes purity of the body, speech, and mind and the blossoming of wholesome deeds in blissful liberation. The fully-opened lotus represents the fully-awakened mind and the flower bud represents Buddha-potential.
The size of this carpet on foot is 6*3 and the weight is 5 kg.
All the carpets are made of organic materials and all the carpets are hand-made. The vegetable dyes used to make carpest are tea leaves, Barberry plant, rumex leaf, myrobalan nut, madder root, indigo rock, etc.
There are several steps involved in the Tibetan carpet-making process. Carpet weaving is a traditional occupation of Himalayan people who started many years ago.
Learn more about Traditional Tibetan carpet making process in our blog post.