Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions (1910) (14762404981)

Identifier: orientalcarpetsr00hump (find matches)
Title: Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions ..
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941
Subjects: Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 Rugs, Oriental
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library



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the decoration of walls. The apartments of the palaces of QueenElizabeth were hung with the costliest products of the Flemishlooms, but her Majesty had certainly no carpets on the floors of herpresence chambers or her banqueting halls. The floors were simplylaid with rushes, which from time to time were renewed, but carelessservants very often forgot to remove the undermost layer of rushes.At dinner-time the guests frequently threw bones of meat andpoultry on the floor to regale the dogs therewith, and the natural anddisgusting consequence was that these rush-laid floors became event-ually heaps of filth and breeders of disease. The English, it mustbe sorrowfully confessed, were, until the coming in of DutchWilliam III., and that notable housekeeper Queen Mary II., anextremely dirty people in their domestic arrangements ; and it is 228 Plate XVIII Plate XVIII ORIENTAL RUG Size 7-10 x 4-1Warp—11 knots to the inchWeft—10 knots to the inch I IO KNOTS TO THE SQUARE INCH (See Analysis)
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Carpets Runners and Rugs still questionable whether our household cleanliness might not belargely enhanced by desisting from the practice of nailing downcarpets on our floors, where they always harbour dust, and in thedining-rooms bread crumbs and minute particles of food which attractrats and mice. The Oriental custom has always been and still is toemploy carpets as hangings for shrines and porches, as coverlets forcouches, and as rugs lying loose on the floor ; and this sensible system,which has been largely adopted among us since the immense extensionof the trade in Oriental rugs, will, in all probability, be still furtherdeveloped by the technical as well as by the aesthetic teaching of thesplendid carpet at South Kensington. Reference has already been made to degrees of civilization,and it is well for the national conceit to remember that at theperiod when Alexander the Great was astonished at the magnificenceof the Persian monarch Darius, Britain was barely known, herinhabitants