Antique oriental rugs & period furniture: At the Detroit Museum of Art, March five to thirty-one nineteen hundred & fifteen

THE classic antique rugs of the fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are recognized by art critics as subjects worthy of a place in the world of art equal to that of the "masters" in the realm of oils of the same period. The antique rug was made by hand, on hand looms, often requiring years of patient weaving. The wool was carefully selected, the dyes were made from vegetables, herbs and plants by secret processes handed down from generation to generation and though the rugs were subjected to the sun, rain and wear of centuries, their colors have not faded nor have their power of expression nor strength of character changed.

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ANTIQUE ORIENTAL RUGS

PART I. ANTIQUE PERSIAN RUGS.

PART II. ANTIQUE ASIA MINOR AND TURKISH RUGS.

PART III. ANTIQUE CAUCAUSIAN RUGS.

PART IV. ANTIQUE TURKOMAN RUGS.

PART V. CHINESE RUGS.

PERIOD FURNITURE

FRENCH PERIODS

ENGLISH PERIODS