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 219
rug dealers in one (piarter, the makers of weapons inanother, and so forth. CLASSIFICATION OF OKIENTAL RUGS It is perhaps unnecessary to annoimce here that the classifica-tion of Oriental rugs is not an exact science. Every dealer has liisown system, based upon his personal experience and reading,… … Plate IV—DAGHESTAN RUG190 CAUCASIAN AND TURKISH RUGS One might as well admit at the start that it is impossible to learna great deal about Oriental rugs from books or magazine articles, nomatter how excellent they may be, unlc.s.s the book knowledge bebackgrounded by nuich actual experience with…
