Fine Rugs
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A 1900 magazine article from Overland Monthly offering an amateur's guide to Oriental rugs at the height of the American rug-collecting craze. It surveys the main Persian, Turkish, Central Asian and Indian rug types, explains how rugs are knotted on a frame, and discusses knot counts, materials, prices, antique versus modern rugs, bleached imitations, and the meanings of designs such as the palm-leaf, prayer-rug and hunting-carpet patterns. It closes with advice on buying and a comparison with American-made Smyrna and Wilton rugs. Illustrated with halftone photographs of Kirman Shah, Serabend, Bokhara, Kasak, Shirvan, Cashmere, Kirman, Khorasan and Sinneh rugs.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1900
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 9
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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