Plate Ten was once in the possession of the Swedish carpet savant and author F.R. Martin. It is more traditional in style with an allover spiral vine and elements in the field and border modeled directly after carpets seen in Timurid book illustrations.

There seems to be a 50-100 year hiatus between these Timurid illustrations, their bookbindings and the appearance of these carpets at the beginning of the 16th century. Since it is a simple step to transfer this design concept from a book binding to a carpet surface and the question is: Why did it take so long?

Most of the examples in this group are very large, sometimes up to 40 feet long.