Hawley, W. A. (Walter Augustus), 1863-1920 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 158
ing the qualityand value, which otherwise only a critical examination, that fewpeople are able to make, would show. Furthermore, the knowledge of where a rug is made, suggestingthe class of people who wove it, adds immeasurably to our interest.When, for instance, we look at an old piece of Kurdish… … Plate 23. Sehna Rug CLASSIFICATION OF MODERN RUGS 99 as were his ancestors who contested the march of Xenophon overtwo thousand years ago. We see him wandering with his flocksover the hills while he watches for a chance to fall upon an unsus-pecting stranger. We picture to ourselves the hut of…
Rugs, Oriental
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