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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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December, 1911 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 43.
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The Kirman comes in various sizes. Such an example as the one illustrated above, measuring 6 ft. 1 in. by 4 ft. 3 in., could be had for $70 from room to room. Large rugs have necessarily a heav- tainly the flowers woven into Kirman rugs have never been ier structure that is more expensive to weave, and are surpassed by those conventionalized on any other looms more likely to crack and ravel at the ends and be injured or in any other form of art. In some of the more pretentious by dust and moisture. I think that the largest rug in a Kirmans birds, animals, landscapes and human figures appear. room should not cover over one fourth of the actual floor The Tabriz rug illustrated is four by five feet and sells space, although of course I recognize the fact that the for $50. These are among the best of the modern Orien- general decorative plan often renders necessary the room- tal rugs, in spite of a tendency to curl that in some of them size rug. But for the small house and the limited purse needs frequent correction. The texture is exceedingly fine, it may be set down that large Oriental rugs are unattain- as is the ground floriation that rightly suggests Kirman able. In a large rug strength is of vital importance. That is one reason for the popular- ity of Gorevan rugs. Good ex- amples, about nine by twelve feet, sell for $195. Both weave and pattern are coarse, but the structure is solid and the knotting firm. The wool- en pile is high and soft be- neath the foot. The warp and weft are of cotton and the fringes are consequently short, with hardly any of the flat web projecting. Resem- bling the Gorevans, but with designs of greater intricacy and more floral and natural-

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