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1 Onteora Rug
A modern American rug, woven on hand looms. The weft consists of piece ends of coloured fabrics forming blocks, stripes and arrows as designs. -
2 Soumak Rug
All-wool tapestry rugs woven in Transcaucasia. They are made in loose weave and from coarse dyed yarns in geometrical designs. They are also called Kashmir, but the rugs are not of the Cashmere quality of wool. They are made in small and large sizes. The knots are tied in a slanting direction with alternate rows in a reverse direction causing the underside of the rug to have a herring-bone effect. Two rows of tufts are knotted for the insertion of two ground picks. The term is a corrupted form of Shemaka, which town is a weaving centre. -
3 Savonnerie Rug
Rugs made in France in imitation of Oriental knotted rugs in rococo designs. They are made at the factory of La Savonnerie established at Paris in the reign of Henry IV. Later on the factory was united with the Gobelins. -
4 Herat Stripe
A term used to denote the trailing vine. Used by Herat rug weavers as a border. The effect is a series of rosettes surrounded on each side by a serrated leaf in trailing style (see Rug designs) -
5 Kulah Rugs
Rugs of large size with long loose pile containing mohair, made in Asia Minor. The colours and designs are inferior to antique rugs. The olden rugs were all-wool in prayer rug designs with a short and close pile, tied in Ghiordes knot - red and gold-brown colours were often used. They are produced by men weavers with 16 to 48 knots per square inch. -
6 Pear
PEAR, or CONE DESIGNThe commonest of all field designs used in Persian rugs and carpets. It is found in the weavings of Sarabend, Shiraz, Herat, Khorassan and Senna. It is used in borders as well as in the field portion (see Rug Designs) -
7 Cone Design
PEAR, or CONE DESIGNThe commonest of all field designs used in Persian rugs and carpets. It is found in the weavings of Sarabend, Shiraz, Herat, Khorassan and Senna. It is used in borders as well as in the field portion (see Rug Designs) -
8 Persian Rugs
These are the finest among Oriental rugs and are made of silk, cotton or wool. The warp is mostly cotton, with a short, close, velvet-like pile of silk or wool. Colours are very soft and lustrous, in designs of floral and animal patterns. Usually oblong shape. There are no undecorated spaces of plain colour. The borders are characteristic Persian ornament and the Herati design is a favourite centre motif as well as the " Pear." The use of a cotton warp is distinctive, since nearly all other Eastern rugs have wool (see Rug Designs) -
9 Cloud Band Design
A design motif used in the rugs of Persia. It is a very ancient motif of Mongolian origin, and used to encircle the Palmette (see Rug Designs) -
10 Herati Pattern
A characteristic design used as an all-over effect in Persian and other Eastern rugs. The features are four crumpled leaves around a central diamond, and these motifs are at all times easily seen. The figures are not as a rule accurately outlined (see Rug designs) -
11 Karmanian Philims
Rugs made in Turkestan; often with prayer rug designs (see Khilim rugs) -
12 Milassa Rugs
Hand knotted all-wool rugs of Turkey, the pile is tied in Ghiordes knot. Made in stripes and in prayer rug designs with old gold as the prominent colour. -
13 Mina Khani Design
A Persian design used in the manufacture of Persian rugs and carpets. It is seen only in all-over styles and is a favourite of the Kurdish tribes (see Rug designs) -
14 Rosette Design
An oriental motif used in the rugs and carpets of Persia, Turkey, and sometimes Caucasia and Central Asia. (See Rug Designs.) -
15 Bus
A cotton fabric, hand woven, and printed with hand blocks in Turkestan. Made narrow widths and several widths are sewn together for use as bedcovers. The cloth is used in the grey state. The designs are large, and imitate the Oriental rug patterns. -
16 Daghestan Carpets
Woollen carpets and rugs, made from the wool of sheep, native to the Caucasian mountains. Such wool is of a regular structure and gives a good pile. The designs are geometrical and mosaic in style and moderately close in the knotting which is the Ghiordes knot. Many angular hooks appear in the design in blue, red, yellow and ivory. Both ends of each rug has a knotted fringe and the sides have a narrow stripe. -
17 Josaghan Rugs
Fine examples of Persian rug craft, being well woven, of rich deep mellow colourings and a pile of unusual lustre. Designs are floral types with trellis or diaper pattern borders in three stripes. There are two picks between each row of tufts which are tied in the Ghiordes knot. -
18 Khiva Rugs
Fine, all-wool rugs of small size, made in Turkestan, the short close pile being tied in Senna knot. Designs are octagonal figures or the prayer-rug pattern, in rich reds, blue, ivory, etc., and a little green. They are made by the Nomad women about Khiva. The head worker traces the design in the sand and hands the different colours to her assistants as desired to produce the pattern. -
19 Multan Rugs
A very stout cotton rug, made with hand-knotted cotton pile in Multan, Punjab. The shape is always oblong and designs are geometrical, usually blue and white or blue and red.
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