Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile design Lace and lace making Embroidery Wallpaper Leatherwork Interior decoration Tapestry
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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edallion, as in the example on Plate XV, where only part ofthe rug is shown, because of its length. A pole medallion, it shouldbe exjjlained here, is a medallion with extensions. The pile ofHamadan rugs is comparatively thick, and the weave comparativelycoarse. MOSUL Although the city of JNIosul is not in Persia but in Iurkey—to beexact, on the Tigris two hundred and twenty miles northwest of Bag-dad, and near the ruins of the ancient Nineveh, capital of Assyria—Mosul rugs are properly classed with those of Persia. The rugsmarketed at JNIosul by nomadic weavers from the north, from theeast, from the south, are the products of many different races andnatin-ally show great diversity of character. Indeed, the only char-acteristic common to all of them is the nature of the weave, thoutihthey are prone to yellow and russet hues and the wool is soft andlustrous. Many Mosul rugs show Caucasian motifs, such as stars andlatch-hooks; others show Kurdish i)atterns, with but little change 217
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