The Penn's Grove record., 1884-11-15

JeIu, with u general ground OF red,
White OF some other uniform tint, with
borders and details Of minute tracery,
! harmoniZlng with, rather than disturb
ing the general effect. These patterns
are dnquestionably OF higher artistic
Importance, exhibiting a quality desig-
mated by artists as breadth. At pres
ent, While there is apparently no differ
ence IN texture, there is al evident ten.
dency toward smaller designs which
lose much of the effect unless seen with
close inspection. Perhaps this is only
The result Of u reaction from loug.es-
tabllShed custom. and it must be cOnce-
ded that the modern designs OF Persian
rugs are more popular with the average
American and European buyer. The
eolors formerly employed IN the rugsof
Persia were impeTishable. Rugs one
hundred years old show no d%eteriora-
ton in the tint, but rather u softness
such AS old paintings assume. The in
PRODUCTION of analine dyes at one time
threatened TO ruin the manufacture of
texture fabrics Ia Persia, but the law
against the employment of analine dyes
enacted by the Persian government is
enforced with yigor. The namads or
felt carpets OF Persia, although produ-
ced by a process which, perhaps, exclu,
DIES them from the list of strictly textile
fabrics, may yet properly be considered
IN this report. The namad is made by
forming a frame of the thickness intend
ed, or excavating a place in the ground
OF the size and depth equivalent to the
naTad intended. The hair is laid in
this and beaten with maIlets until the
original disjointed mass has obtained
cohesion and is reduced to the dimen.
slons Of the frame. A design Of color
ed threads IS beaten into the upper sur
race, sometimes quite effectively. The
namad, however, is desirable less for
its beauty than the complete sense Of
comfort it affords. IL is much thicker
than other carpets, and the sensation to
The tread is luxurious. No carpet has
ever been manufactured that is more
suitable for the comfort of a sleeping
room in winter. or course there Is a
difference in the quality of these na-
mads, but the dearest are far cheaper
than the same surface of carpets or rugs
woven in the usual styles. The great
weight and clumsines5 Of the namads
must unfortunately prevent their ex-
portation to any extent until the means
of transport are improved. The best
quality of namad is made at Aspahan,
but the most massive are produced at
Yezd. One would imagine that the
size of The namad must necessarily be-
limited. But, on the contrary, the re-
gular Persian carpets rarely equal and
exceed the dimensions of some
namads. The namad is, more often
than the carpets, intended to cover Ga
entire floor, elegant rugs being laid
over it i'll places. 1 have seen a namad
seVenty-dve feet long by nearly forty
wide i'll one piece. There is one species
rug special to Persia often spoken of,
but rarely seen. l refer to the rugs
made of silk, 1t is not uncommon to
see rugs of the finer types with silken
and sometimes with a wool of
silk in the body of the rug. But all
silk rugs are rare, and rarer o than
formerly. They are generally small,
and intended for luxury rather than
use. The price is necessarily very high.
The chief of the merchants Of Teheran
yold me of u he had seen owe a tomb;
was barely two square yards in size;
but he said that 200 tomans, or $3.50,
would be a low price for 1t.