Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions .. (1910)
Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 328
the decoration of walls. The apartments of the palaces of QueenElizabeth were hung with the costliest products of the Flemishlooms, but her Majesty had certainly no carpets on the floors of herpresence chambers or her banqueting halls. The floors were simplylaid with rushes, which from time to time… … Carpets Runners and Rugs still questionable whether our household cleanliness might not belargely enhanced by desisting from the practice of nailing downcarpets on our floors, where they always harbour dust, and in thedining-rooms bread crumbs and minute particles of food which attractrats and…
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 · `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 · Rugs, Oriental
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