Persian weaving and iIllumination, (1898). 'Fig 1: Persian carpet, 16th century. Fig 2: Motives [motifs] for weaving from an old Persian book of ornaments in the Museum of Ornamental Art at London. Fig 3: Illumination from a carpets covered with flowers and in many cases enlivened with animals and birds, and the delicately painted Koran-manuscripts are widely dispersed and much in favour throughout the East'. Plate 20 from "The Historic Styles of Ornament" translated from the German of H. Dolmetsch. [ Batford, London, 1898]

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