Special list of fine Persian rugs : in carpet sizes over ten feet in length.
A 1913 dealer's stock list from Costikyan & Co. of New York and Chicago, offering large Persian carpets over ten feet long to American furniture buyers and decorators. Halftone plates photograph whole rugs and corner details, giving medallion layouts, dense arabesque fields, scrolling vine borders and animal-and-tree motifs in high-contrast grey, usable as ready-made repeat patterns, frames and tonal texture fills.
