Identifier: orientalcarpetsr00hump (find matches)
Title: Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions ..
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941
Subjects: Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 Rugs, Oriental
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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y 30. Mr. Vincent J. Robinson, in hiscontribution to the same grand Carpet Book, under the title IndianCarpets, writes : In 1882 Mr. Purdon Clarke visited the factoryof Masulipatam, and at the Palace of the Nawab saw a remarkablesuite of large carpets, each fitting one of the reception-rooms. Onexpressing admiration for their size and beauty, and inquiring as totheir place of manufacture, he was informed by the Nawab thatthey were all made in the Palace, in his fathers time, about sixtyyears before, adding the explanation that no weavers houses werelarge enough for the looms, nor were any weavers rich enough tomake such carpets for chance sale. Here are two sufficient reasons for the smallness of the averageOriental carpet—the size of the houses in which they were woven,and the fact that the smaller size meant a quicker turning over of 252 Plate XXI Plate XXIORIENTAL RUG Size 9-3 x 4-11Warp—12 knots to the inchWeft—9 knots to the inch lo8 KNOTS TO THE SOJJARE INCH (See Analysis)
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Carpets Runners and Rugs the weavers small capital, for it may be assumed that privatelywoven, as most of them doubtless were before the trade was organizedupon the European system, a very small carpet would naturally taxthe resources of the weaver. Apart from the limitations of design and colouring caused by thesize, there are no distinguishing features in the average carpet, runner,and rug; but in the last-named class there is the well-known PrayerRug, which is quite distinctive in style and has inner meaningswhich are worthy of notice. There are the inscription prayer rug,the prayer rug with the open arch, and the variety of the same rugwhich has the representation of a lamp hanging from the crown ofthe arch. The arch is sometimes partly filled with a hanging bandof small figures joined together ; indeed, the variety is infinite.Some of the larger prayer rugs, of more advanced design, have arepresentation of the supporting pillars of the arch, the older oneshaving a single detached

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