The oriental rug; a monograph on eastern rugs and carpets, saddle-bags, mats & pillows, with a consideration of kinds and classes, types borders, figures, dyes, symbols, etc., together with some practical advice to collectors
A collector's handbook on Oriental rugs by William De Lancey Ellwanger, published in New York by Dodd, Mead in 1909 for American buyers and connoisseurs learning to identify weaving regions, types, borders and dyes. The plates are colour photographs of whole rugs from Caucasian, Anatolian and Persian workshops, giving repeating lattice fields, stepped medallions, prayer-niche arches and multi-band borders that can be lifted as pattern tiles, palettes of madder red, indigo and ivory, or edge treatments.
