In oriental rugs the first characteristic that attracts the eye is the main color, then the overall outline design, and lastly the artistic work in details including the different objects inspired from the nature and their symbolical meaning, which fascinate the eye and make the daily rug maker life with a rug a constant delight, every rug is unique and has its own beauty, sometimes the general pattern is kept and only some variations in color are done which gives totally different look to the rug. Each Oriental rug maker gives its own touch to his work, which turns this art work to a private history.
The Oriental has inspired from the nature or redrawn it into rugs, sometimes we can find a whole scene of hunting weaved with all the small details, from the hunters ridding their horses and ordering their dogs, to the particular details of the animals describing their fears and their movements. An other beautiful scene is where a quiet and a dreamy land is drawn with its trees, river, flowers, and birds.
The nature is not the only source of inspiration of the rug maker; the geometrical patterns represent a source of endless shapes, the workman tries using his imagination to find a beautiful combination using the triangle, the square and the closed and opened lines. There is a hidden meaning expressed by using the geometrical shapes. Some idea could not be expressed using human pictures, so the workman creates the actors of his scene using the geometrical shapes.