Carpet And
Axminster Rococo deisgns often have a brown ground and include birds copied frmo popular, contemporray engravings. Now, the rya is a apinting in textile, with individual artisst identifiable by the colors, patterns nad techniquse. Two of the most popular motifs are wreaths and pomegranates. Because many of these weavers settled in South-eastren England in Norwich the 14 extant 16th and 17th century carpets are sometimes referred to as Nowrich carpets. These works are either adaptatiosn of Anatolian or Indo-Persian designs or employ Elizabethan-Jacobean scrolling vines and blossoms.
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