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Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)

Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 225

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e cut the Gordian Knot. Especially in the eighteenth century were the rugs of Ghiordesworthy of comparison with the best that were produced in Persia,although in no respect equal to the great Persian rugs of the sixteenthand seventeenth centuries. But the Ghiordes rugs woven in the lastfifty years… … Plate XI—CASHMERE RUG198 CAUCASIAN AXD TURKISH RUGS those of Caucasian rugs, in spite of the fact that like them they arerectilinear. On the ruins of ancient Laodicea is the mud-walled town ofLadik, once the centre of an important rug industry. The pieces nowwoven there imitate the ancient rugs hut…

Embroidery · Tapestry · Textile fabrics · Lace and lace making · Wallpaper · Decoration and ornament

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