Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern - A Handbook for Ready Reference

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Title: Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern
A Handbook for Ready Reference
Author: Rosa Belle Holt
Release Date: September 19, 2009 [EBook #30025]
Language: English
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ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL ANTIQUE & MODERN
A Handbook for Ready Reference
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CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1908
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A. C. McClurg & Co.
1901-1908
This Enlarged Edition published October 10, 1908
The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.
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ANTIQUE TABRIZ SILK RUG
Size 8 × 6.3
This interesting and valuable rug is of antique Tabriz weave,
of finely blended colors, and rare design. It represents the
individual squares on the floor of a mosque, each one of
which may be occupied by a worshipper kneeling in prayer.
Rugs with a single design of this kind are usual, but a
grouping of many such spaces in one rug is ...