Primitive people, in whatever part of the world they have dwelt, have used the same natural materials in rug-manufacture, vegetable always antedating animal products, and the list may be framed as follows: Leaves Fibre Jute Hair Wool Silk Reeds Hemp Cotton Fur Grasses Flax These materials, in the hands of the savage races, have been […]
Legends and myths in oriental rugs
By limiting the subject to the selection of those legends, and those alone, which have found illustration in symbolic design, and have passed from that to pattern with a gradual loss of meaning, we may select some about which there is sufficient authority and evidence to incite us to the study and analysis of forms […]
Caucasian rugs
Taking the country on either side of the Caucasus Mountains, for the study of textiles which are strictly speaking Caucasian, we find that the commercialism of the present day has established methods of using the entire output of the looms of the district, and of opening centres for the sale of rugs ancient and modern. […]
Turkish rugs
With chart in hand we may here review the entire subject and endeavour to use the general considerations as mapped out, in the examination of as many rugs as possible, presenting to ourselves the stereotyped questions about shape, size, possible use, materials, colours, methods of manufacture, style of ornament, and religious significance, that we may […]