Centre. 

Blue, green and yellow striped roof vent, dark blue roof decorated with golden animal, birds, foliage and flowers, orange roof edge decoration with vertical golden stripes and spirals, two blue poles with gold foliage decoration hold up the roof on either side of the yurt, the green pole joins are visible on the right hand side, two multi-coloured guy ropes are visible on either side of the yurt. 

Left. 

Similar vent to central yurt but with a red apex and thinner yellow lines, white roof decorated with gold flowers and foliage, roof edge decorated with a blue horizontal line then blue, yellow, red and white vertical strips, only one brown pole is visible on the right of the yurt with it’s green join showing, no guy ropes are visible. 

Right. 

Similar vent to central yurt but without any yellow stripes, same roof decoration as yurt on left, the roof edge is decorated by a bumpy horizontal blue line then a diamond pattern in red, blue, white and yellow, only one brown pole is visible on the left of the yurt with it’s green join showing, no guy ropes are visible.

“Musèe des Arts Dècoratifs, Paris.” 

Inside cover: “Khayyam was actually the poet’s rather singular pen name - “Takhallus” in Persian, or “Tentmaker”. Thhis unwonted sobriquet was a reference to the trade the poet practiced before he became established as a man of learning.”