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Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile design Lace and lace making Embroidery Wallpaper Leatherwork Interior decoration Tapestry
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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e usually tied with the Ghiordes knot. Rugs tied with theSehna knot are apt to have a shorter pile and a less silky surface,but design of greater intricacy and more definitely outlined. A sjilendid example of Karadagh is the one belonging to ISIr.Howard Greenley illustrated in colour on Plate V. The name comesfrom the Karadagh Mountains in the extreme northwestern part ofPersia where the rugs are woA-en, close to the Caucasian border. Soit is not strange that Karadagh rugs often show rectilinear and geo-metrical forms resembling those of Daghestan anil other Caucasianrugs. The rug before us, however, with the Shah Abbas motif in thefield and a variant form of the Mina Khani motif in the border, andwith its rich and brilliant colouration, suggests at once the Kurdistanrunners that have their long fields filled with the JSIina Khani motif. PERSIAN ANIMAL KUGS Of all the ancient rugs shown in the Metrojjolitan Museum ofArt in New York City, I personally like best the ancient sixteenth Mi
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