Oriental rugs, antique and modern . metimes six or seven inches wide, colouredred and crossed by broad longitudinal stripes, which are generallyblue, but may be black, white, brown, or yellow. Some deviceto avert the evil eye is frequently attached to the webs. Beyond theweb is a tasselled warp fringe. Texture, moderately firm. Weaveat back is of fine grain. Usual length, three to seven feet. Usualwidth, three quarters to nine tenths length. Ghiordes. — Whether, as has been maintained, the town ofGhiordes, that lies a days journey to the east of Pergamus, is onthe site of the ancient Gordium w
Oriental rugs, antique and modern . metimes six or seven inches wide, colouredred and crossed by broad longitudinal stripes, which are generallyblue, but may be black, white, brown, or yellow. Some deviceto avert the evil eye is frequently attached to the webs. Beyond theweb is a tasselled warp fringe. Texture, moderately firm. Weaveat back is of fine grain. Usual length, three to seven feet. Usualwidth, three quarters to nine tenths length. Ghiordes. — Whether, as has been maintained, the town ofGhiordes, that lies a days journey to the east of Pergamus, is onthe site of the ancient Gordium where tradition says the father ofMidas dedicated his chariot to Jupiter, and Alexander severed thebark which bound the pole to the yoke, it claims attention from thefact that the rugs woven there one and two centuries ago not onlyexcelled similar products in all other parts of Asia Minor, but equalledthe best fabrics woven in Persia during the same period. Indeed,a few connoisseurs would rank them still higher; yet with reference. Plate 38. Mudjar Prayer Rug ASIA MINOR RUGS 169 to technique of weave and delicacy of colour and drawing, very fewshould be classed with those woven in the previous century by theproteges of Tamasp and Shah Abbas. So essentially do the modern rugs of the Ghiordes district differfrom the old pieces in weave, colour, and pattern, and so great istheir inferiority, that they have little interest; but fortunately it isstill possible to purchase pieces from seventy-five to one hundredand fifty years of age, and others still older are in the hands of col-lectors or in museums. In determining their age the colours anddrawing, as well as weave and pattern, are important indices. Forinstance, the reddish tones of the fields of pieces less than a centuryold have a pinkish or even magenta tinge, while in the oldest the redis of rich, deep colour. Similarly, in the case of blues, greens, yellows,and even the ivories that rarely occupy the field, a riper and rich
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