Where did the idea of MouseRugs® come from?
MouseRugs® were inspired by original rugs such as traditional Persian hand-knotted wool carpets and designs originally made for the Persian Royal Court as well as rugs originating from coutries such as Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, America, West Africa and South America. MouseRugs® combine stunning woven art image designs from all over the world with the luxurious feel of Lextra® fibres, making unique quality gifts.

Most of the MouseRug® designs have matching CoasterRugs® enabling you to create the perfect gift.

Prices
Mousemats - £14.99 each (plus postage and packing)
Set of 4 coasters - £14.99 (plus postage and packing)

Place an order
Please call us on 01707 259009 with your chosen design and we can arrange immediate shipment.

MouseRug® Dimensions
18.1cm x 26cm (7.125" x 10.25") including fringe and 4mm thick
CoasterRug® Dimensions
8.9cm x 14cm (3.5" x 5.5") including fringe and 4mm thick

Asian Collection

	Ardabil This geometrically patterned rug is a replication of a design that originated in the Northwest corner of Iran and was popular in Europe and America during the 19th century.
	Ivory-Gold Feraghan Feraghan Sarouks were among the crème of late 19th century Persian carpet masterworks. Designed by artists who were schooled in classical forms, wide varieties of Feraghan Sarouks were created first in complex drafts, and then woen into rugs in small ateliers.
	Deep Blue Bergamo This design is inspired by the Bergamo rugs, woven in western Turkey, north of Izmir. This stunning design is reproduced by licence from Arthur T.Gregorian Oriental Rugs.
	Kuba Oriental Bright colours and bold geometric patterning characterise the 18th-century carpets woven in the Kuba district of Caucasus. This design has been adapted from an original antique rug from the Colonial Williamsburg's collections.
	Silk Medallion The silk medallion rug from which this MouseRug® is adapted belongs to a group of small Safavid silk rugs. Scholars have generally agreed that the silk carpets and rugs in this group were made in Kashan, an important Persian mercantile centre for silk products, during the second half of the sixteenth century.
	Red/Geometric Shekarlu This MouseRug® is inspired by a rug from James Opie's collection that is an especially archaic example of one of southern Iran's most traditional tribal sources, the Shekarlu tribe.
	Tabriz Heriz The Persian MouseRug® Collection was created from digital scans of fine Persian carpet images provided courtesy of the Persian Carpets Exhibition in Kuwait. This is a very old carpet design, and in the past forty years the Heriz design has been produced in the city of Tabriz which is the capital city of the province of Eastern Azerbaijan.
	Antique Red Afghan Afghanistan has been the source of wide varieties of tribal and village rugs for many hundreds of years. This image is based upon a modern piece, from the town of Kunduz, in northeastern Afghanistan.
	Five Medallions Five circular medallions are depicted in the centre and the four corners of the classically-proportioned 19th century Chinese carpet that inspired this MouseRug®.
	Ruby Turkish Star Ushak According to documentary sources, large medallion carpets (of which the Turkish Star Ushak is a variant type) were woven in the western Anatolian town of Ushak, known for carpet weaving since the fifteenth century.
	Indienne Symmetrical patterns distinguish rugs from the Oushak region of northwest Turkey. Popular in Europe from the 1500s onward. This design is inspired by an 18th century carpet in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation collections.
	Turkoman Bokhara Among the most popular oriental rug designs in the world. Fanciful myths have evolved to describe the origin of this pattern, but most experts agree that the original Turkoman weavers drew inspiration from the flowerbeds of a formal garden.
	The de Young Early Turkmen The original rug originates from Northeast Iran and was made by an unidentified Turkmen tribe in around 1750. This design, along with other Turkmen carpets, is held in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
	Freud The original rug was made by one of the nomadic tribes of the Qashqa'i confederacy in Persia in the 19th century. The original Qashqa'i shekarlu rug covers the most famous piece of furniture in the world - Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic couch.
	Jade Fars Pictorial The original rugs were made of high quality wool pile as they were made for the court and great nobles only being presented on special occasions and were inspired by a centuries-old Persian pictorial rug design tradition, from the Fars province in the south of Iran.
	Emperor's Garden This style reached the height of its popularity in the 1940s and used pictorial elements such as pagodas, vases and realistically drawn flowers, birds and butterflies. It is an exquisite example of a type of design known as the "Peking" style which originated from the weaving factories of China in the 19th century.
	Contemporary Jaipur Inspired by the hand-knotted designs of Northern India, this contemporary Jaipur shows how design themes introduced to the sub-continent by 16th century Mughal Lords from Persia have survived for centuries.
	Midnight Persian Inspired by the Persian Mahi Tabriz rug design, this engaging classic Persian carpet pattern is the most detailed carpet design reproduced as a MouseRug®. It uses a very fine example of the curvilinear Herati pattern in its execution and is sometimes called the Fish and Turtle design.
	Tree of Life Inspired by the traditional Persian hand-knotted wool carpets containing silk highlights. The tree of life grows from the pot at the bottom of the design.
	Aqua-Camel Oriental This original MouseRug® design features seashore colourations and playfully interpreted design elements inspired by fine oriental carpets.
	Somerset This design is replicated from an 18th century crewelwork coverlet or "bed rug" in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation collections. Emboidered by a New England woman around 1785-1810, no two flowers or leaves were stitched alike.
	Dusty-Gold Ancient Oriental The few remaining ancient Persian carpets are found in museums and private collections around the world, and date back to the oldest discovered Pazyryk Rug from 500 A.D. The Ancient Oriental MouseRug® combines meticulously detailed design with subtle colour.
American Collection
	Deep Red Zapotec Traditional Southwestern design based on a Zapotec hand woven rug purchased at a Jackson, Wyoming flea market in the summer of 2008.
	Earthtone Southwest This MouseRug® design coordinates especially well with other natural colours such as wood, wicker, stone and brick and is inspired by handwoven Indian flatweave rug designs from the American Southwest.
World Travel Collection
	Country Heritage Stars A beautiful celestial design with deep black background adorned by playful star images. For centuries, stars maintained a large role in the lives of ancient rug-making cultures and the use of this celestial element in rug-making continues to this day.
	West African Bogolanfini This MouseRug® design is based on a mud-dyed cloth called bogolanfini which was dyed by Nakunte Diarra, a contemporary bogolanfini master who used a complicated process in which the mud dye is applied in the spaces around and between the pattern lines. Bogolanfini is a traditional textile of the Bamana people of Mali in West Africa.