All the Plates illustrated so far belong to the compartment/cartouche design group and one last example is included for its dazzling beauty. This carpet, which dates somewhat after the others, was probably woven some time between 1550-1600.

The connected compartment/cartouche layout they all demonstrate often appears in the carpets depicted in late Timurid miniature paintings and was later more fully developed in Safavid book ornamentation and textiles.

Plate Eight is justly famous for its refined coloring, with a unifying single ground color that shows a simplified figure-ground interface.