. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. Ilali- XI CAKlKTIXC; .MADK IX MASSACHLSETTS. Plate XII—BRUSSELS CARPETIXc; MADE IX MASSACHUSETTS ITU CAKPETS AND RUGS what as they are maiiipidated on tlie nottinghani lace and hice ciu-tainmachines. The result is to all intents and purposes an Oriental rugof the ]\Iahal or Muskha])ad type, l)ut of superior qua
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. Ilali- XI CAKlKTIXC; .MADK IX MASSACHLSETTS. Plate XII—BRUSSELS CARPETIXc; MADE IX MASSACHUSETTS ITU CAKPETS AND RUGS what as they are maiiipidated on tlie nottinghani lace and hice ciu-tainmachines. The result is to all intents and purposes an Oriental rugof the ]\Iahal or Muskha])ad type, l)ut of superior quality. Thetexture and the back are the same, and the fringe is a self-fringe madeby knotting the warjjs by hand after the rug comes from the one unaware of the existence of this loom would suspect that the10 by 12 rug illustrated in Plate XIII was not made by hand-knotting. The result is identical. There is no difference. Injuredand stained spots can be rejjlaced by hand-knotting, just as in Orientalrugs, and rugs can be cut down and reshaped at will. I was over-whelmed with surprise when I looked over 50 of these sehna axmin-sters in large sizes. There can be little doubt that they will ultimatelysupplant some of the modernised and standardised Persian andother Oriental rugs formerly imported into the United Stat
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