. 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. Plate VII—A SIXTEEXTH CEXTlRV PERSIAN KLGIn the Metropolitan MuMiiin. Ilale \lll A .SIXTEENTH CENTLKV PERSIAN RUG111 the Metropolitan Museum 213 PERSIAN AND INDIAN RUGS octagons richly decorated witli flowers, and liirds, and vine tracery;the rectangles with Chinese cloud l)ands and floral ornaments. FA^MOUS AMMA
. 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. Plate VII—A SIXTEEXTH CEXTlRV PERSIAN KLGIn the Metropolitan MuMiiin. Ilale \lll A .SIXTEENTH CENTLKV PERSIAN RUG111 the Metropolitan Museum 213 PERSIAN AND INDIAN RUGS octagons richly decorated witli flowers, and liirds, and vine tracery;the rectangles with Chinese cloud l)ands and floral ornaments. FA^MOUS AMMAN PRAYER RUGS From a literary point of view, perhaps the most interesting rug-in the Metropolitan Museum is the famous Prayer Rug (Plate XI)in the Altman Collection which shows Arahic and Cliinese side byside. In the prayer niche of this rug hangs a mosque lamp amongstred, yellow and jjink flowers, outlined in dark brown on green are graceful flowing trees in yellow with pink blossoms, andother flowers introduced in pink, yellow and dark red. Filling theparts of the field not occupied by the niche are vine and leaf forms inbrown and in white, on claret red ground. The rug has two borders;the outer one, the wider. The inner border consists of an Arabicinscription in red on yellow, supplemented with leaf pattern inscri
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