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—SAMARCAND RUG 182 CHINESE AND BOKHARA RUGS the seventeenth century, that is to say, of rugs of the Ming period. The pile of Chinese rugs is comparatively high, so that it leansover even more than the pile of Kazak rugs, and gives the Chineserugs a peculiarly silky lustre. Whilst Samarcand is now in Russian Cen
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—SAMARCAND RUG 182 CHINESE AND BOKHARA RUGS the seventeenth century, that is to say, of rugs of the Ming period. The pile of Chinese rugs is comparatively high, so that it leansover even more than the pile of Kazak rugs, and gives the Chineserugs a peculiarly silky lustre. Whilst Samarcand is now in Russian Central Asia, it was oncea part of Chinese Turkestan, and subject for centuries to Chinesedominion. Consequently one should not be surprised at finding thatSamarcand rugs are Chinese rugs, though with a strong leaningtoward Persian. In other words, Samarcand rugs might be describedas Chinese-Persian rugs. The designs are apt to be more continuousthan those of other Chinese rugs, and the borders more important,although the weave is almost like that of other Chinese rugs, and theknot is the same; that is to say, the knot used is the Sehna. GHIORDES AND SEHNA KNOTS At this point I should perhaps explain that an Oriental rug knotis tied around a pair of warps. To make a Ghior
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