Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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tendency to large octagons, lozenges, stars and diamonds. The warp is of wool and long fringes of gray wool at top and bottom are common, with wide flat borders often figured in tapestry weave or broche. An Afghan Bok- hara three feet and ten inches by two feet and nine inches may be purchased for about twenty dollars. Such rugs may be found in any of the large Oriental rug shops throughout the United States. Of the Bokharas as a class, the Afghans are the darkest and coarsest. Other types are the Khivas, Yomuds, Tekke Turkomans, Princess Bokharas, etc. The designs and colors of Yomuds approximate those of Dag-
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A very rare specimen of the Chinese rug, valued at $1,500. This rug has a salmon-pink ground, with symbolistic figures in blue and lemon color tinguish a very good rug from a bad one. It is not age, but art, that enhances the value of an object. Anyone who pays a high price for a bad rug merely because it is old throws away his money. Whether a rug is antique or antiquated is not of the slightest importance to the average purchaser, except that those claimed to be antique are likely to be imperfect in design, color, texture or material. The important thing is to select rugs that are in good condition and that in every way fit the apartment they are to adorn. Much depends upon the style of the rooms. Kermans are out of place in a Mission room, just as rugs of the Bokhara type are out of place in a Louis XVI room or in an Adam room. Bokhara rugs have strong colors, particularly reds and browns, heavy con- ventional or geometrical designs with a

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