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Oriental rugs, antique and modern (1922)

Hawley, W. A. (Walter Augustus), 1863-1920 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 312

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ed so as to resemble a ribbon at the bottom, to note the eight-pointed stars resting on octagons in the lower panel, so suggestive ofnomads, and also the designs which have been placed near the two cornerson the left, between the rosettes and Rhodian lilies of the main stripe,as if to divert the… … v.- * ASIA MINOR RUGS 191 prayer rugs with arches resembling the Ghiordes pattern, but theirborders are more conventional. Woollen rugs which are copies ofother well-known Asia Minor pieces are also woven there. Yuruks. — Suggestive of gipsies, yet widely unlike them, arethe tribes of Turkoman…

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