In early weavings the borders are few in number and not very wide — in fact in very early borders there appear only a few stripes, varying in color, around the entire fabric.
In addition to these stripes, which were retained as outer or limiting band, an inner border was eventually added carrying a Swastika fret or some typically Chinese geometric form.
Signs of "shou" and bats were used as over-laid ornaments upon these frets. A favorite method of decoration with early weavers consisted in placing archaic dragon forms in conventional corner designs, and using the same motif in the central medallion, the borders in such rugs carrying elongated forms of the same dragon scroll.
