To the Persian, Feraghan rugs are the acme of carpeting. The Herati design, which has been held as a distinctive mark of the Feraghan, is repeated upon a ground usually blue, with rich but modest variations of color. The borders, well balanced in width against the body of the rug, are wrought after the common plan of alternating rosettes and palmettes upon a waving vine. The borders have more white and pale tints as well as more pronounced blues and red than the body. The ground of the main stripe is often laid in various shades of green.