Persian Silk "Tree of Life" Rug, signed. Beautiful silk rug with ivory interior with red boarder. Intricately woven with birds and deer surrounded by flowered trees. Signed in bottom margin. The tree of knowledge, connecting heaven and the underworld, and the tree of life, connecting all forms of creation, are both forms of the world tree or cosmic tree. According to some scholars, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, portrayed in various religions and philosophies, are the same tree. Size: 62 x 42 in. (5'2" x 3'6") Size does not include fringe.