Mae Festa 50 Years of Collecting Textiles - Peter Pap Oriental Rugs

TIBET
Ritual Cloth
18 th Century
Square of blue silk damask, chain stitch
embroidered double vajra design.
20 x 20 cm 8 x 8 in
The vajra, representing a thunder bolt, was an
important symbol in Tibetan Buddhism. Here two
crossed vajras are shown in a symmetrical design.
Ritual implements were placed on cloths with this
design to empower the objects, then wrapped in the
cloths for safe keeping.
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