Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions .. (1910)
Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 519
th its continuous coloured worsted threads, each wrappedor warped round its separate bobbin, has when called a warp thread the particularsignificance attached to the term, while the uncut loop as a cord (corresponding with theOriental knot) is, the way of the weft, a weft cord. It has been assumed… … The above Vignette in Chardins Voyages en Perse heads a letter addressed toLouis XIV., accompanying an account of the Coronation of Soliman II. In the first decade of this XXth Century, the two lions with their lesser sunsmay appropriately be regarded as representing the great Carpet Nations…
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 · `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 · Rugs, Oriental
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