. 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. s used,single knot ends alternate with single warps, when the Ghiordes knotis used, pairs of knot ends alternate with pairs of warps. BOKHARA KUGS Bokhara rugs are also woven with the Sehna knot. Bokhararugs are just as nuich distinguished for rich reds as Chinese rugs arel)y the absence of them. Bokhara i-ugs are much
. 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. s used,single knot ends alternate with single warps, when the Ghiordes knotis used, pairs of knot ends alternate with pairs of warps. BOKHARA KUGS Bokhara rugs are also woven with the Sehna knot. Bokhararugs are just as nuich distinguished for rich reds as Chinese rugs arel)y the absence of them. Bokhara i-ugs are much more closely woventhan Chinese rugs, and the pile is trimmed much shorter. Bokhararugs are woven in Russian Centi-al Asia east of the Caspian Sea,along the line of the Transcaspian Railway and also by the wandering-tribes of Afghanistan and Belouchistan. The patterns of Bokhararugs are radically different from those of Chinese rugs. They arewithout exception rectilinear, and the favourite motifs are the octagonand other polygonal shapes based on the patterns of marble-tiled andiidaid floors. Instead of cotton warps, they have woollen warps, andfrequently long end selvages, and fringes. Often these selvages areornamented with embroidery or tapestry or broche figures. 183. mr^y. chinesp: and Bokhara rugs The jn-iiK-ipal divisions of tliis oroiip are Royal. Princess, Tekke,Yomud, Afglum, Reloiielie, Eeshir. Piiule. The cliaraeter of the dif-ferent designs is made elear by the accompanying ilhistrations. Thefinest and most exquisite rugs of the Bokhara grouji are tlie so-calledRoyal Eokharas made in the Khanate of Bokhara, in the vicinity ofthe city of Bokhara, which is the capital of the Khanate and is situ-ated on the Transcaspian railway, and has always been the mostimportant shipping point for Bokhara rugs. Whilst octagon motifsare characteristic of Royal Bokharas, crosses or katclilis- are equallydistinctive of Princess Bokharas. As the illustration shows, the fieldof a Princ
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