Identifier: orientalrugsanti1922hawl (find matches)
Title: Oriental rugs, antique and modern
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Hawley, W. A. (Walter Augustus), 1863-1920
Subjects: Rugs, Oriental
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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granate rind and good iron-filings water. COLOUR PLATE II — OUSHAK CARPET The colours and pattern of this antique Oushak are similar tothose of the best examples that remain of the carpets woven in AsiaMinor during the XV and XVI Centuries. The deep blue of the cen-tral field, the rich red of the medallions, and the golden yellow of theleaves are entirely unlike the more subdued hues found in Persian rugs.Strongly contrasting with them are the more delicate tones of the ten-drils and leaves, which display in their drawing a keen sense of refine-ment. In the formal pattern of the field are stateliness and elegance;in the narrow borders are simplicity and grace. Such colours anddrawing show that the early Asia Minor weavers had an intense ap-preciation of the ennobling qualities of beauty and harmony. Loaned by Mr. James F. Ballard ■ • sw Wi • ssA3 &&$ ■■<•• &%wH riwjawM simslf. row «\* taiU -
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DYEING 41 Add mineral acid; steep wool for thirty-six hours, then boil for threehours, wash well, and dry. Pale Greyish Green. Take copper rust, asburg,* and alum.Mix well with any hot water, not boiling; soak wool for eighteenhours, then boil for three hours. Give a bath with water acidu-lated with some limes, and dry in shade. Old Gold and Rich Yellow. Take turmeric and asburg, cin-nabar and alum. Soak all night. Steep wool for twenty-four hours,boil for four and a half hours, wash with a beating, and dry in shade. Dark Grey. Take of the fruit of Cupressus sempervirens,seeds and seed pods of babul (Acacia arabica), iron-filings water,and alum. Steep over night. Now add the water and let it soakfor twenty-four hours, then boil for two or three hours, until thecolour is right, then wash and dry in the sun. Rose Colour. Take ratanjot (Onosma echioides), a thoughtof cochineal, manjit (Rubia cordifolia) or lac colour a very little,and cinnabar. Add water, soak them for twelve hours, put

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