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 227
relation to them as Shirvansto Daghestans. Like the Ghiordes, a large proportion of the KulahsJiave architectural or prayer niche patterns, but the field is usuallyfilled with pattern instead of plain as in the Ghiordes rugs, and theborders consist of many stripes alternating in colour, instead of… … riate XI CASll.MKKK RUG 198 CAUCASIAN AND TURKISH RUGS those of Caucasian rugs, in s])ite of the fact that hke tlieni tliey arerectihnear. On tlie ruins of ancient I^aodicea is the nuid-walled town ofLadik, once the centre of an important rug industry. The pieces nowwoven there imitate the ancient…
