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How to know oriental rugs, a handbook (1904)

Langton, Mary Beach · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 148

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ers in amost peculiar way by showing thestrength and instincts of the race. Theyare easily distinguished from all otherrugs of the Caucasus by their heavyand firm texture, long, lustrous pile,bold figures, and brightness and rich-ness of coloring. There is a note ex-pressive of their free life in… … KASAKLoaned by Mr. John B. Baird, St. Paul, Minn. Caucasian Rugs resent a coat of arms, or octagonalshields with smaller designs of squares,circles, diamonds, stiff little animalfigures, or conventionalized flowers,scattered throughout the field, andframed in bold borders of harmoniouscolors. The…

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