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 . Plate VI—CHICHI RUG. Plate VII—BAKU RUG 194 CAUCASIAN AND TURKISH RUGS CASHMERES AND SOUMAKS The Cashmeres (Plate XI), otherwise called Soumaks, are ina class quite by themselves. They have not a pile surface like otherOriental rugs, but a flat surface. They are made not by tying shortpieces of wool around pairs of war
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 . Plate VI—CHICHI RUG. Plate VII—BAKU RUG 194 CAUCASIAN AND TURKISH RUGS CASHMERES AND SOUMAKS The Cashmeres (Plate XI), otherwise called Soumaks, are ina class quite by themselves. They have not a pile surface like otherOriental rugs, but a flat surface. They are made not by tying shortpieces of wool around pairs of warps, but by twisting woollen yarnaround the warp, over four and then back under two, then over fouragain and back under two again, which operation continued indef-initely and varied to produce certain variations of surface texture, pro-duces one of the most durable, though not the heaviest, of floor cover-ings. The process is a kind of modified tapestry weaving, half-waybetween tapestry and pile rug knotting, and like tapestry weavingleaves many loose threads on the back. Because of these loose threads,and the consequent resemblance of Cashmere rugs to the Cashmereshawls from India so famous during the nineteenth century, theserugs got the name Cashmere. It is certainly a much more poeticna
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