With flowers of thought we have twined the second column of the chart, and now must practically apply our deductions…

In approaching the study of Indian fabrics we find that all preconceived notions of Hindu ornament must become subservient to…

Of the religious beliefs which have most effectually influenced pattern, those that led to nature-worship were necessarily the earliest, the…

Until within a century the casual student of things Oriental has been apt to look upon Asia chiefly as "Bible…

Since the Saracenic conquest Arabic characters have been used by the scholars and scribes of Persia, and such have figured…

Although robbed of many of its chief dependencies by the inroads of rival governments and the march of empire, we…

Before the migration of patterns one might trace the origin of fabrics by reading their ornamentation and noting the designs…

The district between the Black and Caspian Seas on the north and the desert of Arabia on the south has…

Consideration of materials used in the making of rugs and their colouring is naturally followed by close study of methods…

In presenting the chart method of studying Oriental rugs it is with the firm belief that by thus systematizing and…