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 . earlypart of the seventeenth. The unusually large medallion in the centrehas itself a wide border of birds in red and blue, perched on slenderstems connecting floral motifs on yellow ground; and a field of floraland vine tracery in red, bright yellow and blue, on dark blue corners of the main field of the ru
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 . earlypart of the seventeenth. The unusually large medallion in the centrehas itself a wide border of birds in red and blue, perched on slenderstems connecting floral motifs on yellow ground; and a field of floraland vine tracery in red, bright yellow and blue, on dark blue corners of the main field of the rug show flower and fruit trees,with birds in the branches, on dark green ground. The rest of themain field is covered with numerous animals, the Shah Abbas motif,and numerous florals in orange, dark blue and other colours, on a redground. This rug is a magnificent illustration of the extraordinarysuccess with which the Persians were able to use not only brilliantcolours, but many brilliant colours in close contrast, toning and blend-ing them into rich but gentle harmonies. In the Altman Collection at the Metropolitan Museum are threelarge rugs with silk pile woven in Central Persia, probably in theneighbourhood of Kashan, in the last quarter of the sixteenth century. 208. Plate V—AN EXTRAORDINARY LARGE KARADAGH RUG 209
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