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 96
me without a curve andby angles only. It is unfortunate that the best rugs of theCaucasus come from the large province ofDaghestan, and that that general term isapplied to them indiscriminately. Twentyor more years ago most of the Oriental rugswhich were sold here to an uneducated andunappreciative… … CAUCASIAN RUGS, ETC. 63 Thousands of beautiful Kabistans, Shirvans,Bakus, etc., were then sold for a song un-der the one arbitrary title. They wouldbe priceless to-day, and yet the formercommercial, vulgar use of the name leavesit in undeserved disrepute. As used in thischapter, it is intended to…
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