. 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. l\- IlMto V FOlHTKKNTll CKXTIJHY I\ ITKUXS 34 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS of the animal rugs w()\ en in Persia in the sixteenth century are merelyanother version of the miUc jicur tapestries of the West, whiletapestries like the with the Unicorn, set at the Cluny Museum,are simply alive with Sara
. 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. l\- IlMto V FOlHTKKNTll CKXTIJHY I\ ITKUXS 34 DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS of the animal rugs w()\ en in Persia in the sixteenth century are merelyanother version of the miUc jicur tapestries of the West, whiletapestries like the with the Unicorn, set at the Cluny Museum,are simply alive with Saracenic suggestion. Important to note at thispoint are the many Chinese cloud hands and ribhon knots, andother Chinese motifs that appear on Persian rugs and silks from thefourteenth to the sixteenth century, easily recognisable altlioughobviously reproduced by weavers ignorant of their meaning. ANIMAL PATTERNS It has long been the fashion to attribute the lack of animal andliuman life seen in modern Oriental rugs and other fabrics to thejjrohibitions of the Mohammedan religion. Mohannned, in his eager-ness to suppress the worship of idols, rejieatedly forbade the repre-sentation of life. But the expounders of the Koran did not find itdifficult to evade the law, and while
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