. 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. rthy of its impor-tance, having wide, paved streets, liglited by electricity; large andhandsome shops, street cars rinming in all directions, inqjosing publicbuildings, a magnificent cathedral, an elaborate opera house, aninteresting museum of natural history, and excellent hotels. Butwhilst one-half of Tiflis is Iiand
. 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. rthy of its impor-tance, having wide, paved streets, liglited by electricity; large andhandsome shops, street cars rinming in all directions, inqjosing publicbuildings, a magnificent cathedral, an elaborate opera house, aninteresting museum of natural history, and excellent hotels. Butwhilst one-half of Tiflis is Iiandsome, safe and civilised like Kurope,the other half is purely Oriental—narrow streets, mysterious houseswith shuttered windows and closed doors; merchants grouped bytrades, the rug dealers in one (piarter, the makers of weapons inanother, and so forth. CLASSIFICATION OF OKIENTAL RUGS It is perhaps unnecessary to annoimce here that the classifica-tion of Oriental rugs is not an exact science. Every dealer has liisown system, based upon his personal experience and reading, andthe more experience he has the less likely he is to attach su2)remeimportance to minor subdivisions. I shall endeavour to introduce intothese chapters only terms that are commonly accepted and Plate IV—DAGHESTAN RUG190 CAUCASIAN AND TURKISH RUGS One might as well admit at the start that it is impossible to learna great deal about Oriental rugs from books or magazine articles, nomatter how excellent they may be, the book knowledge bebackgrounded by nuich actual experience with rugs. Photographsonly remotely suggest the rugs themsehes. They entirely eliminatethe texture, which is what makes Oriental rugs really worth while. CAUCASIAN RUGS The weavers of Caucasian vugs have a passion for the straightlines and the mosaic effects that have put Caucasian rugs in a classby themselves. Caucasian rugs illustrate the highest development ofthe extreme conventionalisation of primitive design. Primiti
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