CYBERRUG IN SEARCH OF WALTER NICHOLS BY E.BOGEN
 WELCOME TO THE CYBER RUG CENTER TRY ORIENTAL RUGS ON APPROVAL TODAY 1-800-686-7030 10% DISCOUNT FOR PAYMENT BY CHECK The following article is published here thanks to the kindness of Elizabeth Bogen "In Search of Walter Nichols" By Elizabeth Bogen W hatever his rightful place in carpet history turns out to be, it is undoubtedly true that Walter Abner Burns Nichols was one of the most colorful of the American adventurer/entrepreneurs in 1920s Tientsin. With his flyaway hair and his San... - http://www.cyberrug.com/bogen-walternichols.htm 21/09/2004 - Category: Chinese - More from this publisher
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CYBERRUG NOTES ABOUT ART DECO RUGS
WELCOME TO THE CYBER RUG CENTER TRY ORIENTAL RUGS ON APPROVAL TODAY 1-800-686-7030 10% DISCOUNT FOR PAYMENT BY CHECK Notes About Art Deco Rugs by Allan Arthur Oriental rugs are a fashion statement for the home. Designs and color ways respond to pressures in different markets, depending on what the fashion demanded. What's hot on the runways of Paris and New York, often eventually progresses into fabrics for the home for use in draperies, wall paper, and furniture coverings. Once in use in fabri... - http://www.cyberrug.com/deconotes.htm 21/09/2004 - Category: Chinese - More from this publisher
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CYBERRUG DECO RUGS TAGS AND STAMPS
 WELCOME TO THE CYBER RUG CENTER TRY ORIENTAL RUGS ON APPROVAL TODAY 1-800-686-7030 10% DISCOUNT FOR PAYMENT BY CHECK This is a compellation of tags and stamps found on Art Deco rugs. Walter Nichols' Tag for Nichols Chinese Rugs. Below is an original Nichols silk tag. "Nichols Chinese Magic Carpets" A rug stamped with Nichols name. If the rug is large enough it reads "MADE IN CHINA BY NICHOLS" The stamp is made along the fringe. If you know how to determine the spin of the fi... - http://www.cyberrug.com/decotags.htm 21/09/2004 - Category: Chinese - More from this publisher
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CYBERRUG COPY OF ORIGINAL NICHOLS PAMPHLET
 WELCOME TO THE CYBER RUG CENTER TRY ORIENTAL RUGS ON APPROVAL TODAY 1-800-686-7030 10% DISCOUNT FOR PAYMENT BY CHECK Thanks to the generosity of Pande Cameron of Seattle, and my friend Elizabeth Bogen, we are able to provide a copy of an original pamphlet published by Nichols about his rugs. There are photos of the original plants and looms where the rugs were made, and some of the staff and weavers that made them. Remember that this was created as a selling tool for Nichols rugs, and not as a ... - http://www.cyberrug.com/nicholspamphletcover.htm 21/09/2004 - Category: Chinese - More from this publisher
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SYMMETRY OF RUGS - RUG KNOTS
 Rug Knots THE TWO MOST TYPICAL TYPES OF KNOTS used in Oriental carpets are called Turkish (sometimes called a Ghiordes knot), and Persian (sometimes called a Senneh knot). These terms generally have nothing to do with a carpet's ethnic or geographic origin. FIELD PATTERNS AND BORDER PATTERNS in all handmade Oriental pile carpets rely upon repeated sequences of knots. It is primarily in the choices of color, and in the repetition of selected designs (represented by specified sequences of knots t... - http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/carpets/knots.html 21/09/2004 - Category: Basics - More from this publisher
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SYMMETRY OF RUGS - MAKING PILE CARPETS
 Making Pile Carpets On the Basics of Weaving and Loom Technology Woman weaving, Ashkabad, Turkmenistan SSR. Photo by Carol Bier, 1989. THE BEAUTY OF CARPETS also depends upon the quality of yarns that go into their construction. The warp consists of a set of parallel yarns held taut on a loom. The weft is composed of cross-wise yarns that interlace with the length-wise warp yarns as weaving progresses. The pile is formed by rows of what are called knots projecting from the foundation of interla... - http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/carpets/making.html 21/09/2004 - Category: Basics - More from this publisher
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SYMMETRY OF RUGS - MAJOR RUG-PRODUCING REGIONS OF THE WORLD
 Major Rug-Producing Regions of the World ORIENTAL CARPETS come from traditional rug-weaving areas of the world: Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia, western China, and India. In the 15th and 16th centuries, they were also produced in Spain and Egypt. Over the centuries, rug-producing regions developed distinctive styles based upon local traditions of manufacture, availability of materials and dyestuffs, and preferences for particular patterns, designs, and colors. Rugs from different areas... - http://mathforum.org/geometry/rugs/carpets/map.html 21/09/2004 - Category: Basics - More from this publisher
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NAVAB BROTHERS - GAZETTE: "MORRIS AND DONEGAL CARPETS"
To receive a free quarterly edition of the Oriental Rug Gazette with no obligation , Morris and Donegal Carpets by Ian Grant D uring the late 1800's, a select group of artists, philosophers, critics and businessmen, the majority of whom were from England, found themselves growing tired of the industrial revolution. They saw it as a great behemoth which single-handedly eliminated the public's need for the individually skilled artisans and craftsmen of ages past. Instead it brought to the world h... - http://orientalrugcompany.com/gaz1.html 21/09/2004 - Category: Miscellaneous - More from this publisher
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NAVAB BROTHERS - GAZETTE: "GABBEH"
To receive a free quarterly edition of the Oriental Rug Gazette with no obligation , "Gabbeh" - Tribal Simplicity or Early Modernism? by Farzan Navab U ntil a few years ago "Gabbeh" rugs were only known to the people of south Persia. The Lurs and Qashqi tribes of south Persia have been making these heavy blanket-like woolen rugs for perhaps 400 years. There is recorded information about them in travelers' diaries and other such sources. The oldest source is a document from the sixteenth century... - http://orientalrugcompany.com/gaz2.html 21/09/2004 - Category: Persian - More from this publisher
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NAVAB BROTHERS - GAZETTE: "THE INFLUENCE OF HERAT"
To receive a free quarterly edition of the Oriental Rug Gazette with no obligation , The Influence of Herat by Ian Grant I n the late 1300's a conqueror known as Timur (or Tamerlane as he is known in the West), a distant relative of Chingiz Khan, came to the fore in Persia. In seven years he had conquered the cities of Tabriz, Shiraz, and Bagdad. Nicknamed the "Sultan of Babylon," Timur initiated what was to begin one of the greatest artistic periods in Persian history; a period whose center wa... - http://orientalrugcompany.com/gaz3.html 21/09/2004 - Category: Miscellaneous - More from this publisher
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