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The engagingly cartoonish creations are mostly painted ceramics, but with such touches as metal whiskers on the panther and a tuft of carpetlike hair atop the water buffalo.

From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2022

Set on a carpetlike rectangle of red-brown soil, it has a dozen or so components.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2013

He picked his way among the vines and shrubs to a carpetlike patch of green moss and sat down comfortably to wait.

From The Man Who Staked the Stars by Dye, Charles