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 80
mbol and reminder. The Sera-bends are firm in texture, lie well, and aremost satisfactory. Sometimes, however,the green in them shows the faults of ananiline dye. Their designs are peculiar tothemselves, but never become monoto-nous. The palm-leaf pattern is of coursecommon to many kinds of rugs.… … OF PERSIAN RUGS 51 The Shiraz rugs are warm in colour, lus-trous, but rather loosely woven. Many ofthem show the shawl pattern, small hori-zontal or diagonal stripes. These stripedrugs, however, are always wavering andirregular in design and soon tire the eye.They are well passed by.…
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