One of the simplest forms of a vine with pendant is shown in [Plate F], Fig. 7. It appears in Asia Minor carpets woven during the XIII Century, and also in some of the earliest Iranian carpets. Now and then it is seen in modern Persian rugs.
A very common form of a vine with pendant is shown in [Plate F], Fig. 8. This pattern is seen in a large number of Persian rugs, such as Mosuls, Bijars, Kurdistans, and Hamadans. Each flexure of the vine is enlarged to almost the form of a leaf, and between them is a branching pendant.
In another stripe (Plate [F], Fig. 9), taken from a Feraghan, there is no particular enlargement to the vine, and the alternating pendants are buds and flowers of four petals.
A more geometric form that appears in such rugs as Muskabads is shown in Plate [F], Fig. 10. In this the vine represents serrated leaves, and suggests one of the Shirvan patterns.
A very similar stripe (Plate [F], Fig. 11), taken from a Sehna, should be compared with those of Figs. 8 and 10, as it serves to illustrate the evolution of vine patterns. In fact, if a very large number of stripes were arranged in proper order, they would show almost imperceptible gradations from one type to another.
One of the simplest vines with pendant, adopted by the Kurdish tribes, is shown in Plate [F], Fig. 12; and in Fig. 13 is another vine with pendent pear alternating with a rosette.
Not all the patterns, however, are vines. In Plate [F], Figs. 14 and 15, for instance, is represented the same secondary stripe as it appears at the sides and the ends of some moderately old Persian rugs. The former pattern bears a resemblance to the one in Fig. 5, and each illustrates a series of connecting links.
A graceful pattern that is seen in Bijars, Hamadans, and other rugs of Northwestern Persia is represented in Plate [F], Fig. 16. It was probably derived from an old form of leaf and tendril.
The reciprocal trefoil (Plate [F], Fig. 17) which is constantly used in a tertiary stripe, is probably a degenerate form of an ornate floral design. It is more widely used for a border stripe than any other pattern, as it is found not only in such Persian rugs as Sarabends, Bijars, Sarouks, and Kashans, but in many of the Indian and Beluchistan rugs, and in almost all of the Caucasian group. It was commonly used in Persian rugs as early as the year 1500.
In many of the rugs of Persia and Asia Minor is seen as a tertiary stripe the simple ribbon pattern (Plate [F], Fig. 18). Its origin is lost in the dim past, and it is not improbable that once it had a symbolic meaning.