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Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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Plate VII—A SIXTEENTH CENTURY PERSIAN RUGIn the Metropolitan Museum
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Plate VIII—A SIXTEENTH CENTURY PERSIAN SILK RUGIn the Metropolitan Museum 312 PERSIAN AND INDIAN RUGS octagons richly decorated with flowers, and birds, and vine tracery;the rectangles with Chinese cloud bands and floral ornaments. FAMOUS ALTMAN PRAYER RUGS From a literary point of view, perhaps the most interesting rugin the Metropolitan Museum is the famous Prayer Rug (Plate XI)in the Altman Collection which shows Arabic and Chinese side byside. In the prayer niche of this rug hangs a mosque lamp amongstred, yellow and pink flowers, outlined in dark brown on green ground.Below are graceful flowing trees in yellow with pink blossoms, andother flowers introduced in pink, yellow and dark red. Filling theparts of the field not occupied by the niche are vine and leaf forms inbrown and in white, on claret red ground. The rug has two borders;the outer one, the wider. The inner border consists of an Arabicinscription in red on yellow, supplemented with leaf pattern below.The inscription r

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