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Oriental rugs, antique and modern (1922)

Hawley, W. A. (Walter Augustus), 1863-1920 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 412

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to quarters which usually are marked with a smallfigure like a three-leaf clover. The field contains but few adventi-tious designs and they are rarely animal, as the Afghans are SunniMohammedans. One of the most common of these designs, whichappears also in the Tekkes and Yomuds, is probably… … Plate 55. Turkoman Rug of the Salor Tribes CENTRAL ASIATIC RUGS 245 an added selvage of brown goats hair; and the ends are finishedwith reddish brown webs, from which hang loose fringes of darkwool or goats hair. As characteristic as the large bold octagons are the colours,which however subdued are…

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