Gubba motif

The top gubba contains floral rosettes while the bottom gubba has a horizontally placed hyacinth motif.

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Kufic main border

The word ‘Kufic’ or ‘Kufi’ refers to an earliest form of Arabic calligraphy and it consists of a modified form of the old Nabataean script. The script was called ‘Kufi’ because it was developed in the end of the 7th century in Kufah, Iraq. It was the main script used to copy Qur'ans until the 11th century. Originally, the script was angular and staccato, but later a floral Kufi was developed, and then several other varieties, including foliated Kufi, knotted Kufi, and square Kufi. Eventually, it seems, the word ‘Kufic’ came to denote any form of ornamentation based on calligraphy—a word art—including both highly decorative scripts and purely geometric, abstract ones.

A carpet with a pseudo-kufic border depicted in a Jalayirid manuscript, XIV century, Tabriz school, From "Kalila wa Dimna"

Kufic type of borders depicted in medieval European paintings:

A rug with a stylized kufic border depicted in this painting of Carlo Crivelli (Annunciation with St Emidius), 1486. Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 207 x 146,5 cm. National Gallery, London

King Henry on a rug with a kufesque border. Hampton Court Palace 1667 by Remigius van Leemput

St Jerome in his Study, 1480, Ognissanti, Florence. by Domenico Ghirlandaio