Hand-loom weaving; a manual for school and home (1902)
Todd, Mattie Phipps · Chicago [etc.] Rand, McNally & company · leaf 125
n which they aremade. Bokhara rugs are made in moun-tainous districts of Turkestan, and havenever been successfully imitated, becausethe dyes used are made from a plant grownonly in that district. The designs are geo-metrical, and the colors deep maroon or blue.The pile is woven as close as velvet.… … and heavier in pile, and they differ fromthem in having a wide selvage at each end.Some Khivas have a small pattern in redmosaic over the surface with a circle in the 126 HAND-LOOM WEA VING center. One often sees a rug made of a richgolden yellow with a background of darkred. The Kiz-Kilim rugs…
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