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ORIENTAL RUGS 1903 RARE BOOK on CDROM
CDROM of an original copy of the rare book "THE ORIENTAL RUG",; "A MONOGRAPH ON EASTERN RUGS AND CARPETS, SADDLE-BAGS, MATS, PILLOWS WITH A CONSIDERATION OF KINDS AND CLASSES, TYPES, BORDERS, FIGURES, DYES, SYMBOLS, ETC. TOGETHER WITH SOME PRAGMATIC ADVICE TO COLLECTORS", with 12 gorgeous color plates, 154pp by W. D. Ellwanger 1903.
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This work is a unique resource on oriental rugs. Includes pdf of all pages with fabulous graphics. Great gift for anyone interested in oriental rugs whether amateur or the collector. Excellent design or background resource for anyone interested in graphic arts or computer art or design or interior decorating. Unique resource for your images elibrary.
****Free Bonus second Book included on this CDROM ; from an original copy of the rare book "ORIENTAL RUGS IN THE HOME", by Nahigian. Published 1913 by Childs and Company, Chicago. Includes high resolution pdf of the 6 gorgeous color plates, and all 82 pages. **** Excellent gift and design or background resource for anyone interested in graphic arts or computer art or design or interior decorating. Unique resource for your images elibrary. CD-R is both Mac and Windows compatible. Includes convenient and complete thumbnail index of all pages, and ability to magnify and examine fine details. Unique gift!! FREE SHIPPING TO USA and CANADA. We ship internationally (worldwide) at actual shipping cost. 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
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Oriental Carpets 1910 CDROM
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Of ancient origin, the art of carpet weaving reached its height in the handloomed Oriental carpets from 16th-cent. Persia, Turkey, and central Asia. Genuine antique Oriental rugs were made through the 19th century and are now comparatively rare. Modern reproductions are dyed either with traditional vegetable dyes or modern (and less desirable) aniline dyes and then woven. Many modern Orientals are washed in chlorine solutions to give an effect of age or in glycerine to simulate the luster of fine wool. Commercial methods have somewhat standardized and debased the characteristic ancient patterns, but the modern Orientals are still commercially important. Some traditional Oriental rugs are still produced, incorporating the deep, rich color and intricate patterns of Persia, the brighter hues and conventionalized figures of Asian Turkey, the simpler designs and primitive colorings of Turkistan and the Caucasus, and the symbolic ornament of China. Carpets were formerly woven to protect the body from cold, to be spread on a dais or before a seat of honor, to cover a table, couch, or wall, or to form the curtains of a tent. There is evidence of the existence of handwoven carpets in antiquity. On the rock tombs of Beni Hassan, Egypt, c.2500 B.C., men are depicted with the implements of rug weaving. Other evidence of the early use of rugs is seen in the drawings on the ancient palace walls of Nineveh. In the mountainous regions of the East stretching from Turkey through Persia and Central Asia into China, where the fleece of the sheep and the hair of the camel and goat grow long and fine, the art of carpet-weaving reached its height early in the 16th cent. The artisan worked on a handloom consisting essentially of two horizontal beams on which the warp (the vertical threads) was stretched; on the lower one the finished carpet was rolled while the warp unrolled from the upper one. The yarn for the pile, spun and dyed by hand, was cut in lengths of about 2 in. (5.1 cm) and knotted about the warp threads, one tuft at a time, after one of the two established ways of tyingÑthe Ghiordes, or Turkish, knot and the Senna, or Persian, knot. After a row of knots had been placed across the width of the loom, two or more weft, or horizontal, threads of cotton or flax were woven in and beaten into place with a heavy beater, or comb. The tufts, or pile, thus appeared only on the face of the fabric, which when completed was sheared to perfect smoothness. Although the hair of the camel and the goat was used in the weaving of Oriental rugs, the wool of the sheep was the essential component. Beautiful silk rugs interwoven with gold thread were also made in the 16th and 17th cent. To some degree, the quality of a carpet depends on the materials used and the number of knots per square inch of surface, which may vary from 40 to 1,000. Also produced in these regions are the geometrically patterned and flat woven rugs known as kilims.
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****Free Bonus second Book included on this CDROM ; from an original copy of the rare book "ORIENTAL RUGS IN THE HOME", by Nahigian. Published 1913 by Childs and Company, Chicago. Includes high resolution pdf of the 6 gorgeous color plates, and all 82 pages. **** Excellent gift and design or background resource for anyone interested in graphic arts or computer art or design or interior decorating. Unique resource for your images elibrary. CD-R is both Mac and Windows compatible. Includes convenient and complete thumbnail index of all pages, and ability to magnify and examine fine details. Unique gift!! FREE SHIPPING TO USA and CANADA. We ship internationally (worldwide) at actual shipping cost. 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED.
To order this CDROM, use PAYPAL Buttons above, or send $9.99 Check or Money order made out to "eBookCDROM" together with your shipping address to:
4521 Barrington Drive
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Of ancient origin, the art of carpet weaving reached its height in the handloomed Oriental carpets from 16th-cent. Persia, Turkey, and central Asia. Genuine antique Oriental rugs were made through the 19th century and are now comparatively rare. Modern reproductions are dyed either with traditional vegetable dyes or modern (and less desirable) aniline dyes and then woven. Many modern Orientals are washed in chlorine solutions to give an effect of age or in glycerine to simulate the luster of fine wool. Commercial methods have somewhat standardized and debased the characteristic ancient patterns, but the modern Orientals are still commercially important. Some traditional Oriental rugs are still produced, incorporating the deep, rich color and intricate patterns of Persia, the brighter hues and conventionalized figures of Asian Turkey, the simpler designs and primitive colorings of Turkistan and the Caucasus, and the symbolic ornament of China. Carpets were formerly woven to protect the body from cold, to be spread on a dais or before a seat of honor, to cover a table, couch, or wall, or to form the curtains of a tent. There is evidence of the existence of handwoven carpets in antiquity. On the rock tombs of Beni Hassan, Egypt, c.2500 B.C., men are depicted with the implements of rug weaving. Other evidence of the early use of rugs is seen in the drawings on the ancient palace walls of Nineveh. In the mountainous regions of the East stretching from Turkey through Persia and Central Asia into China, where the fleece of the sheep and the hair of the camel and goat grow long and fine, the art of carpet-weaving reached its height early in the 16th cent. The artisan worked on a handloom consisting essentially of two horizontal beams on which the warp (the vertical threads) was stretched; on the lower one the finished carpet was rolled while the warp unrolled from the upper one. The yarn for the pile, spun and dyed by hand, was cut in lengths of about 2 in. (5.1 cm) and knotted about the warp threads, one tuft at a time, after one of the two established ways of tyingÑthe Ghiordes, or Turkish, knot and the Senna, or Persian, knot. After a row of knots had been placed across the width of the loom, two or more weft, or horizontal, threads of cotton or flax were woven in and beaten into place with a heavy beater, or comb. The tufts, or pile, thus appeared only on the face of the fabric, which when completed was sheared to perfect smoothness. Although the hair of the camel and the goat was used in the weaving of Oriental rugs, the wool of the sheep was the essential component. Beautiful silk rugs interwoven with gold thread were also made in the 16th and 17th cent. To some degree, the quality of a carpet depends on the materials used and the number of knots per square inch of surface, which may vary from 40 to 1,000. Also produced in these regions are the geometrically patterned and flat woven rugs known as kilims.
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