European and American Carpets and RugsA fascinating account, written in the late 1920s and now with an additional 100 colour plates. Includes the history and development of carpet making skills in all the major European countries and America and contains many important contemporary Art Deco designer rugs. |
Contents
RUGS OF SPAIN | 21 |
Dining Room in Palm Beach Home of John Phipps | 75 |
RUGS OF FRANCE | 83 |
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19th century Alexander Morton alpujarra rugs artistic Aubusson aubusson rugs Bayeta beautiful became Bessarabia blanket blue border brussels carpets and rugs chenille cloth Colonial Colour Plate cotton Courtesy Sotheby's decorative design and color Deventer dyeing Early American eighteenth century embroidery England entire fabric factory feet fibres fifteenth century flat weave flatly woven floor coverings floral flowers France French Gobelins ground hand-knotted hand-tufted rugs Hispano-Moresque hooked rug important industry ingrain interesting inventions kelims king loom Louis XIV machine-made carpets manufacture modern motifs Museum Navajo Needlepoint needlework rug old rugs Oriental ornament palaces pattern period Persian Persian Rug pieces power-loom produced real axminster rug weaving rugs woven savonnerie savonnerie rug shows Sotheby's Spain Spanish rugs spinning square inch tapestry tapestry weave technique textile Tismana tufted usually warp threads weavers weaving weft weft threads Wilton wool woolen worsted yarn York