Feast your eyes on colours at the Nomads Tent . Once again this unique gallery offers us a great festival exhibition: 'The Quality of Colour - an exuberance of Tribal Art' gives your senses a delightful shake up with this exciting display of Gabbeh rugs and pure, raw colours in all kinds of decorative and useful artefacts.

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Early this year, Dominic Hawthorne, the rug buyer at the Nomads Tent and regular visitor to Iran, received a call from his friend, Abbas, to say he had some interesting rugs. Not unusual as a sales pitch, but what eventually turned up inspired the team at the Nomads Tent to place them as the centre piece of their 27th Festival Fringe Exhibition.

The Quality of Colour - an exuberance of tribal art' - a selling exhibition at The Nomads Tent, 21 St Leonards Lane, Edinburgh, EH8 9SH, Friday 6th August to Sunday 5th September.

Don't miss this amazing show of Gabbeh rugs from the Zagros Mountains, southern Iran, shown alongside other goods typical of the Nomads Tent's eclectic, even eccentric, style that has been a landmark destination in Edinburgh for nearly 30 years.

Gabbeh rugs, woven in stunningly rich colours, from hand spun wool, come from an old tribal tradition which takes the simplest of components - colour, texture and pattern - and creates functional, sturdy and richly coloured floor coverings. Perhaps unlike some traditional rug designs, these Gabbeh rugs, in their stark purity, seem to embrace the desire for simplicity in our contemporary life.

But there is something more here; there is a hint of the wilderness in these floor coverings. In some examples we see no more than 2 colours with delicious shadings and variations presenting a visual landscape which your imagination can wander through. In other rugs you will see naively drawn human, animal and plant forms set on a desert like ground of colour, a poetic metaphor for their tribal origin. Accompanying the exhibition are traditional painted furniture and artefacts from Jodhpur, 'The Blue City', and textiles and pottery from Jaipur, 'The Pink City', Rajasthan, India and a fabulous range of silver and colourful funky jewellery.