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 . Ghiordes knot. It is interestingto note here that both the Turkish and the Caucasian group are tiedwith the Ghiordes knot, in which the two points of the knot come uptogether, instead of being separated by a warp. One of the earliest types of Turkish rugs with which we arefamiliar gets its name from the great painter H
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 . Ghiordes knot. It is interestingto note here that both the Turkish and the Caucasian group are tiedwith the Ghiordes knot, in which the two points of the knot come uptogether, instead of being separated by a warp. One of the earliest types of Turkish rugs with which we arefamiliar gets its name from the great painter Holbein, because pic-tured in his paintings, notably in the celebrated portrait of GeorgeGyze that hangs in the Berlin Museum ( Plate XV). The table uponwhich he rests his hand is covered with a rug that in type seems half-way between Caucasian and Turkish. The border is one of theso-called Cufic borders, based upon an early straight line form of theArabic alphabet. As Holbein flourished in the first half of the six-teenth century, and as other similar rugs appear in the works ofFlemish and Italian painters of the same period, we may reasonablyassume that some of these rugs were made before the end of thefifteenth century and that examples found their way to European 199. Plate XII
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