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 XVIII-INTRICATELY PATTERNED ALL-SILK KASHAN RUG. Plate XIX—TYPICAL MODERN KIRMAN RUG220 PERSIAN AND INDIAN RUGS from the way in which they appear in Kurdistan rugs. Always theCaucasian motifs are rounded and softened in the Persian direction,whilst usually the Persian designs are coarsened and straightened inthe
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 XVIII-INTRICATELY PATTERNED ALL-SILK KASHAN RUG. Plate XIX—TYPICAL MODERN KIRMAN RUG220 PERSIAN AND INDIAN RUGS from the way in which they appear in Kurdistan rugs. Always theCaucasian motifs are rounded and softened in the Persian direction,whilst usually the Persian designs are coarsened and straightened inthe Caucasian direction. A large proportion of the Mosul rugs nowon the market have a cotton warp. The Mosul rug illustrated onPlate XVI shows the conflict of Caucasian and Persian influences. Saruks are often spoken of as the modern Ispahans. The reasonwhy is clear from the nature of the design shown on Plate , Saruks have an exquisite and velvety texture quiteworthy of the designs that they interpret. They are woven in thesame part of Persia as Sehnas and Fereghans and, like the Sehnas,sometimes curl on account of the tightness of the weave. Kashan is the centre of the Persian silk industry. A fine exampleof the silk rugs produced there is the one shown on Plate XVIII. KIRMAN AXD TABRIZ The wool of southern P
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