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 . has suppliedweavers with many designs that illustrate belief in astrology, luckysigns and geomantic influences. Those most frequently found in rugsare the emblems of the eight immortals: castanets, flower baskets,flute, lotus pod, sword, fan, bamboo musical instrument, has also influenced the decorative
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 . has suppliedweavers with many designs that illustrate belief in astrology, luckysigns and geomantic influences. Those most frequently found in rugsare the emblems of the eight immortals: castanets, flower baskets,flute, lotus pod, sword, fan, bamboo musical instrument, has also influenced the decorative arts of China materially,and we are apt to find some suggestion of its influence, even whenthe origin of the main features of a design can be traced to one ofthe two earlier religions. The eight Buddhist symbols are: wheel,knot of destiny, canopy, umbrella, lotus blossom, urn, conch shell,twin fishes. Chinese naturalists divide the animals into five classes, the firstthree of which are headed by fabulous creatures: (1) the hairyanimals headed by the unicorn (kilin); (2) the feathered animalsheaded by the phoenix (funghwang); (3) the scaly animals headed bythe dragon (lung); (4) the shelly animals headed by the tortoise. Atthe head of the naked animals (5) stands man. 175. Plate I—CHINESE RUG OF THE KIEN-LUNG DYNASTY 176 CHINESE AND BOKHARA RUGS The Chinese dragon is a unique creation. In its archaic form itappears as a huge lizard in old fret borders of rugs. The Imperialdragon has five claws on each of his four feet, and only the Emperorand princes of the first and second rank are allowed to use the five-clawed variety. The dragon is often pictured as regarding or hold-ing a round pearl (chin). This is said to symbolise the effort of thedragon to seek and guard wisdom, and protect it from the attack ofdemons and evil spirits. Here we have the origin of the claw-and-ball foot so often found on English chairs of the Georgian Imperial dragon of Japan has but three cl
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