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 44
ied in a secure knot,and the ends left as they are. This knotof yarn is then secured in place by one ormore twists of the end of the warp, andthen another knot of yarn is tied andthe process repeated ad infinitum until thebottom row is finished and another rowbegun. Not till the rug is all made… … 26 THE ORIENTAL RUG classified as two only. When one squareinch of rug is completed, according to thequality of the rug and the coarseness orfineness of the yarn, there have been thuslaboriously tied from one hundred to fivehundred knots, not uncommonly a thou-sand and more in some museum…
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