. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Kennard Store and Show Rooms tion in the Imperial Royal Austrian CommercialMuseum, the South Kensington IMuseum in Lon-don, and several other Museums in France andGermany, and in the remarkable collections ofEaron de Rothschilds of France ; Prince JohannesLiechtenstein; the late Mr. Marquand of New-York; Mr. Pierpont Morgan and Senator Clark,also of New York, as well as many others. These rugs being valued at from fifty to onehundred thousand dollars each. Gradually this art, the wonderful designs, thevegetable colors used in dying their wool
. Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis. Kennard Store and Show Rooms tion in the Imperial Royal Austrian CommercialMuseum, the South Kensington IMuseum in Lon-don, and several other Museums in France andGermany, and in the remarkable collections ofEaron de Rothschilds of France ; Prince JohannesLiechtenstein; the late Mr. Marquand of New-York; Mr. Pierpont Morgan and Senator Clark,also of New York, as well as many others. These rugs being valued at from fifty to onehundred thousand dollars each. Gradually this art, the wonderful designs, thevegetable colors used in dying their wool and re-markable durability began to be known in civilized•countries, and the result was that the industry sowell known in old times started anew in the pres--ent century, especially in the past thirty or forty 62 SAIXT LOUIS years, hundreds of thousands of Persians startedto work, and are now devoting their entire timeto weaving these rugs for a HveHhood, followingthe old inexplainable designs as well as are producing today sever
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