The oriental rug; a monograph on eastern rugs and carpets, saddle-bags, mats & pillows, with a consideration of kinds and classes, types borders, figures, dyes, symbols, etc., together with some practical advice to collectors (1909)
Ellwanger, William De Lancey, 1854-1913 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 114
gularpetals, like an oxalis or shamrock leaf. Itis quite unlike the blossoms which be-sprinkle other rugs. With this, often comecrude figures of lamps like miniature tea-pots. The Ladiks display all the coloursof an October wood, and complete thegroup of Turkish old masters. Not a fewof them have… … OF TURKISH VARIETIES 73 border, but its origin is altogether ob-scure. These words in testimony to the beautiesof Turkish rugs may be offered simply byway of guide-posts to lead to some mu-seum. A few battered and torn war-flagsof Gheordez or Ladiks are occasionallyoffered on the market, but the…
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