Oriental rugs, antique and modern (1922) (14593681620)

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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dbetween the front and back threads of warp; the heald rod attachedto these back threads is then pulled forward, so that they are nowin front of the others, and the shuttle is passed back. If the rugis narrow, only one shuttle is used; but if the rug is wide, or ifthe weft consists of two threads of unequal thickness, a shuttle ispassed across from each side. Every thread of warp is in this waycompletely encircled by the thread of weft as it passes and repasses.When weaving large rugs, there is an advantage in having two healdrods, as by their use the distance between the front and backthreads of warp may be increased. The object of the lease rod is toprevent any slack caused by drawing forward the threads of warp, andis accomplished in a very simple manner, as will be seen by studyingthe drawing; since when the tension of the back threads is increasedby drawing them forward, the tension of the front threads is also in-creased by displacing the lease rods which thereby stretches them.
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Plate 7. Feraghan Rug WEAVING 47 The products of the loom are divided according to their weaveinto three separate classes. The simplest of these are the kilims,which are without pile and consist only of warp and weft to whicha few embroidered stitches representing some symbol are occasion-ally added. A more elaborately made class are the Soumaks. They consistof warp covered by flat stitches of yarn and of a thread of weftwhich extends across and back between each row of stitches in theold rugs and between each second and third row of stitches in thenew rugs. In the narrow, perpendicular lines that define both bordersand designs the stitch is made by the yarn encircling two adjacentthreads of warp; but in other parts of the rug it is made by the yarnpassing across two adjacent threads of warp at the front, and afterencircling them at the back, recrossing them again at the front.It is then continued across the next pair of adjacent threads of warp.The result is that at the back of these