Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions .. (1910)
Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 264
cessity, theyoung sons, who would be permitted to watch their father at work,and minister to his needs, would have the same intelligence, and thehuman desire for pleasing the eye, which causes the small countrystation-master to spend his time in the elaborate devices in stoneswhich convey the name… … Carpets Runners and Rugs many cases also are really tasteful ornamental devices, which, whilewithout the slightest artistic origin, display a natural human instinctfor neatness and tidiness, satisfied with the orderliness which easilyleads to the first geometrical formation in the matter of design.…
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 · `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 · Rugs, Oriental
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