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Title: Book of home building and decoration, prepared in cooperation with and under the direction of the leading manufacturers of the country
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, Henry Collins, 1862-1961 Lyman, Clara Brown
Subjects: Interior decoration Furniture House furnishings
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. Doubleday, Page & Co
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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lue as a document, but forthe attainment of color results in decoration some modification of the strong coloris in most cases almost necessary and the practice has beyond question come to stay. Considering the Oriental rug from the side of economy, another importantpoint is the possibility of restoration. There are few holes so big in an Orientalrug that a competent weaver, of whom there are many, cann(jt restore it to com-pleteness both in texture and design, so that the new part shall be as strong anddurable as the original. In most cases, where the work has been well done, it isdifficult to discover the substitution or distinguish the new from the old. Thewhole method of construction leiids itself to this, and in a way explains the dura-bility of the fabrics. The Oriental hand-woven carpet is virtually a mosaic in wool.All the wear comes on the upstanding ends of the piled knots. Each of these bitsof mosaic, so to say, is tied separately, by hand, upon the threads of warp, bound 58
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XVIII. Century Baku.

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