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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, 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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er worthy of its impor-tance, having wide, paved streets, lighted by electricity; large andhandsome shops, street cars running in all directions, imposing publicbuildings, a magnificent cathedral, an elaborate oj^era house, aninteresting museum of natural history, and excellent hotels. Butwhilst one-half of Tifiis is handsome, safe and civilised like Europe,the other half is purely Oriental—narrow streets, mysterious houseswith shuttered windows and closed doors; merchants grouped bytrades, the rug dealers in one quarter, the makers of weapons inanother, and so forth. CLASSIFICATION OF ORIENTAL RUGS It is perhaps unnecessary to announce here that the classifica-tion of Oriental rugs is not an exact science. Every dealer has hisown system, based upon his personal experience and reading, andthe more experience he has the less likely he is to attach supremeimportance to minor subdivisions. I shall endeavour to introduce intothese chapters only terms that are commonly accepted and used.
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Plate IV—DAGHESTAN RUG190 CAUCASIAN AND TURKISH HUGS One might as well admit at the start that it is impossible to learna great deal about Oriental rugs from books or magazine articles, nomatter how excellent they may be, unless the book knowledge bebackgrounded by much actual experience with rugs. Photographsonly remotely suggest the rugs themselves. They entirely eliminatethe texture, which is what makes Oriental rugs really worth while. CAUCASIAN HUGS The weavers of Caucasian rugs have a passion for the straightlines and the mosaic effects that have put Caucasian rugs in a classby themselves. Caucasian rugs illustrate the highest development ofthe extreme conventionalisation of primitive design. Primitive peo-ple easily and naturally interpret nature forms in simple but charac-teristic straight line figures, and it is always reserved for the art ofcivilisation to express itself in the curves and flowing lines of nature.Caucasian designs have remained true to the first inspiration

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