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The craft of hand-made rugs (1920)

Hicks, Ami Mali · New York, McBride, Nast & company · leaf 116

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coiledbasketry of the Navajo Indians. Both thesecrafts get their names from the type of theirconstruction. The coiled pottery is onlysimilar to the crocheted rug in its purely con-structive features, for clay demands a differ-ent kind of surface decoration from cottonthread. The likeness in the… … A WELL-PLANNED CROCHETED RUG, SHOWING HOW A CONSISTENT DESIGN IS DEVELOPED THROUGH CONSTRUCTION AND TECHNICAL LIMITATIONS THE CKOCHETED RUG 89 which is used to construct them is consistentwith the material of which they are made. Inboth, the stitch, which is the unit of construc-tion, produces the…

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