Rugs in Their Native Land (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910. Excerpt: ... a sort of fleck pattern, are reckoned a distinctive Kulah mark. It is also copied in the Ghiordes rug, so one can not safely classify a rug by this mark alone. Blue is a favourite colour for the ground of these rugs, but a soft shade of golden brown is so much employed that it might almost be called a Kulah brown. Rug No. 1 has the centre of the peculiar Kulah brown of golden sheen. It has in addition to the three other borders the seven narrow, alternating dark and light stripes bearing the fleck design. Soft shades of green appear in the outline of some of these stripes and in the ground of two of the three wide border stripes. The two flower-like columns, so often seen in the Ghiordes rugs, must be set down as essentially of Kulah origin. Light blues, soft yellowish tans, greens, black, and faint pinks are the colours found in combination in the floral columns in this rug. The field above the niche on either end has a ground of light blue which is continued down, forming another narrow border on the sides of the field. The white serrated pattern also becomes a zigzag border on a tan ground. LADIK RUGS In olden times in the city of Laodicea (one of the seven cities of the seven churches of Asia) beautiful rugs were made. Rugs are made there to-day, but of inferior quality and design, bearing no resemblance to the artistic weavings of the past. Good specimens of the old rugs are still obtainable, but every year they command a higher price and one must search longer for them. The colouring is one of the chief charms of these rugs. They remind one of a walk in the autumn woods; soft reds, yellows, and browns are the prevailing tones, and when blue is employed it is the blue of an autumn sky at sunset with a suggestion of green in it. The pattern is so char...