. 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. pecially the exciuisite roses, are as fresh as ever. This rugis a wonderful creation, thickly patterned \\ ith floral forms that leavenot a fraction of an inch of the plain ground wliich is so much affectedhy those modern decorators who lack coloin- sense. The small rug illustrated on Plate XXI is a typical Tal)riz(nam
. 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. pecially the exciuisite roses, are as fresh as ever. This rugis a wonderful creation, thickly patterned \\ ith floral forms that leavenot a fraction of an inch of the plain ground wliich is so much affectedhy those modern decorators who lack coloin- sense. The small rug illustrated on Plate XXI is a typical Tal)riz(named from the city of Tahriz. the ancient Tauris, in extreme nf)rth-western Persia), in texture hut not in pattern. The grounds ofTabriz rugs are apt to he jjlain, between the corners and the centremedallion of the main field. Some twenty years ago the manufactureof Oriental rugs was begun at Tabriz with the idea of producing therethe equal of Kirman rugs, but the hardness of the wool, and the stiff-ness of the designs supplied to the weavers by European designers,or designers under Ein-opean contrf)l, resulted unsatisfactorily. Rugswere produced of exceedingly fine textiue that curled and even prices were necessarily high because of the fineness of the weave 221. Plate XX—ANCIENT FLOWKH GAHDKN HLG
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