. 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. :ir$H;, ?^?^*^^- ^:m^M m:^r^^ ,¥:^ LLL^- <^?^\;4^^^ i^^\H^^^^. Plate IV—PKHSIAN KIG OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYIn the Imperial Austrian Commercial Museum SOT DECORATIVE TEXTILES century animal rug illustrated in Plate VI. It was formerly in thefamous Yerkes Collection, from which it was purchased at the auctionsale i
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. :ir$H;, ?^?^*^^- ^:m^M m:^r^^ ,¥:^ LLL^- <^?^\;4^^^ i^^\H^^^^. Plate IV—PKHSIAN KIG OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURYIn the Imperial Austrian Commercial Museum SOT DECORATIVE TEXTILES century animal rug illustrated in Plate VI. It was formerly in thefamous Yerkes Collection, from which it was purchased at the auctionsale in 1910 for the Metropolitan Museum at a cost of $15,200. Thepile is of wool, l)ut hoth warp and weft are of silk, thus making pos-sihle the extraordinarily fine texture of four hundred and eightyknots to the square inch. The length is 10 feet 11 inches, the width5 feet 10 inches. The ground of the field is red, the border grounddark blue. The rug is sometimes called the Ardebil rug because, like thefamous larger piece at the Victoria and Albert JNIuseum at SouthKensington, it is believed once to have adorned the floors of theArdebil Mosque. The main motif of the rug before us, ten timesrejieated in two parallel rows, shows a lion and a jackal attacking ablack Chinese deer spotted with yellow; and the intervening spacesare tilled with
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Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectlaceandlacemaking
