Pazyryk

She recounts this in her 2015 book, “Wartime Quilts: Appliqués and Geometric Masterpieces From Military Fabrics,” which traces a history of war quilts beginning with “The Great Pazyryk Felt,” found in southern Siberia, dating from around 300 B.C. and now in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.

Other mummies of the Siberian Pazyryk culture are inked with similar designs and animals such as tigers, leopards and elk.

Ringrose, who recently set up Tremayne for the Afghan contract, obtained a Defense Department contract for Iraq to help introduce the use of natural fibers and new designs, including a project to re-create the Mesopotamian design of the legendary Pazyryk rug, the oldest surviving knotted rug in the world.