Persian scholar and mythologist, Dr Mehrdad Bahar, speaks of the pattern themes on many carpets and rugs which employ gardens surrounded by few walls, centred with a pool and animals set within the gardens. He contents that the users of these carpets in West Asia substituted the bitter memory of man’s expulsion from Paradise by living on carpets which to them represented a paradise.
However, the pattern themes of these carpets are sometimes the same gardens, but have become the Royal hunting grounds, with the King and the courtiers at hunt. By living on these carpets man fancied a coexistence with Kings.
