Oriental rugs, antique and modern . manship is almost as mechanical as the man-ufacture of machine-made carpets in Europe or America. Yet to the cloud hanging over the weaving of India is a brighterlining. European companies have established factories wherenatives are employed making rugs that in quality equal the productsof Smyrna and Sultanabad. Some of them, indeed, are even morefirmly woven than the Persian products from which they are many of the towns, also, are looms where the weavers, who aremostly boys, enjoy more independence. Moreover, the companies,realising that the futu
Oriental rugs, antique and modern . manship is almost as mechanical as the man-ufacture of machine-made carpets in Europe or America. Yet to the cloud hanging over the weaving of India is a brighterlining. European companies have established factories wherenatives are employed making rugs that in quality equal the productsof Smyrna and Sultanabad. Some of them, indeed, are even morefirmly woven than the Persian products from which they are many of the towns, also, are looms where the weavers, who aremostly boys, enjoy more independence. Moreover, the companies,realising that the future of their business depends on the qualityof the fabrics, are largely discarding aniline dyes. It is now possible,therefore, to obtain Indian rugs of excellent workmanship and coloursat very moderate prices; but individuality, representative of nativecharacter and temperament, is entirely lacking; and in its placeis simply a reproduction of Persian or European patterns. Any arrangement of these rugs in subgroups must be arbitrary,. f¥WH^ Plate 57. Beshire Prayer Rug INDIAN RUGS 255 as similar conditions of early foreign influence, royal patronage,and the jail and factory systems, have prevailed throughout since the northern part has been more directly under the influ-ence of the courts and more intimately connected with Herat, whichseems to have left a strong impress on the weavings of all the sur-rounding country, it is convenient to make a distinction between therugs of Northern and Southern India. The principal rug-producing centres of Northern India at presentare Srinagar, Amritsar, Lahore, Multan, Allahabad, Agra, Mirz-apur, Sindh, Jubbulpur, and Jaipur. Srinagar. — From the extreme northern part of India comethe rugs of Kashmir, which are often named after the capital of theprovince, Srinagar, the City of the Sun. To a large extent, theyresemble the far more famous shawls that were woven in the centralvalley, where winds the Jhelum, that some believe first s
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