Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company · leaf 211
zi^z^:?:./ _zvv_\^: … Plate VI—SA.MAKCANl) HUG183 CHINESE AND BOKHARA RUGS the seventeenth centnry, that is to say, of rugs of the Ming period. Tlie pile of Chinese rugs is comparatively high, so that it leansover even more than the pile of Kazak rugs, and gives the Chineserugs a peculiarly silky lustre. Whilst…