The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-12
RUGS AND THNIR USES.
How to Rearrange Them for Warm
Weather.

HOW TO heurrnnBe Iueh Aor warm
Weather.
With rugs so very fashionable. as well
as beautiful and hygienic, womankind's
thoughts naturally turn to them at this
season, when she is either renovating her
home or planning one for summer. says
the Philadelphia Record.
For the dining room q mating rug is
very cool and of elegant appearance.
Some of them have a very distinguished
look especially those of pale sage green
with odd Japanese patterns. Numerous
persons like the jute rugs. with limitations
OF Eastern patterns. These are very use
full for extravagant people. who do not
dare take their fine rugs away for fear
thieves may break in and steal them.
On the other hand, some people will
countenapce nothing save these beauti-
full rugs. If these lovers OF fine things
are new to rug buying. we may whisper
that those wonderful silk rugs are fit only
for wall panel drapery or a divan.
REAL THING FROM THE EAST.
AS for all these fine Eastern rugs one
might as well try to walk on air as to
remember their names. A lot of rugs is
often given the name of some village or
nomadic tribe. instead of their actual
name. These new names are coined every
day. and to little or no purpose, save the
confusing of the buyer
It's perfectly simple, too, to estimate
the value of these rugs (outSide Senti-
mental associations); it's matter Of
quality, compactneSs and firmness of
weave. material used, quality of the dyes,
the colorS and the design. Yes, they must
be considered pictorlally! They have
been since the ancient days. when Egypt
Babylon and AsSyria were world centerS
Their manufacture in Persia has not
ceased since the days of Cyrus, the foun-
der of the Empire.
Furthermore, the methods are the same
"a crude loom Of poles and the hands of
the weaver, with no sign of machinery.
The threads for the foundation are at
tached TO two cross-bars, and small reels
of dyed yarn are passed over and under
the threads twice to form knot and
bring the two ends of the pile to the front.
Then the yarn is cut. When a row is
complete it Is hammered down with q
crude comb, the foundation threads
crossed a thread passed between them
and the foundation threads again crossed.
Once finished the pile is cut and trimmed
to uniform length. A square yard of
Persian carpet contains from 100000 to
100000 knots! Wages are from six to
twelve cents day.
RUG-PRODUCING DISTRICTS.
Anof these Oriental rugs come from but
five principal districts, with innumera-
BILE subdivisions-Turkey. Persia, Caucasia
(north Of Persia and between the Black
and Caspian seas), India and district
including Baluchistan, Afghanistan and
Turkestan.
But the best are from Persia, and of
these some experts assert that the very
finest are from the Kurdistan district.
The Kurk rare prayer rug, is made
from the winter combings of live sheep,
and is soft as silk
The soft and Iustrous wool used in Per-
sian rugs is from the Herman, Khorassan
and Kurdistan sheep, and the dyes are of
vegetable derivation.
Turkeys rug manufacture has received
an impetus because Constantlnople is the
greatest rug mart in the world, handling
the products of the East India, before
the advance Of civilization, produced rugs
equal to the finest Persian. The collapse
of the shawl market caused the KaShmere
weavers to turn to rugs. Tangiers is the
center Of the North African trade, the
natives making rugs similar in weave to
the blankets Of our Navajo Indians