The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-09-07
THE ANTIQUE RUG.
1T is RARE AND COSTLY AND IS FIRE.
QuENTLY couNTERFEITED.

\ Those of Highest Value Come From
Persia and India--The COlors Never
Fade = The Bank Presidents Per.
sian Rug.
To be the possessor of an antique rug
Is the ambition of many and the achieve
ment of few. OF those who congratulate
themselves upon their ownership of such
valued article many would have the
bubble pricked in an instant if they were
I to submit their rug to an expert.
There are not 200 genuine antique
rugs for sale in this country" is the
| statement of one of the most experienced
men in the business. 'Those who own
| them hold on to them, for their value in
| creases every day. To be an antique
1 a rug must be at least 100 years old. so
| what do people mean by coming to me
and saying that they have an antique rug
| which they bought when it was new 20
years beforep
Zone man thinks because rug looks
| little dingy and because he pays good
| price for it that it Is genuine antique,
but new rugs are doetored to give them
the appearance of age. See this one. Ii
| has been sent here to be repaired, and
| the owner believes that it is real an
tique, but it has the dry rot. l can tear
| it, and could not do that il it were real.
Doctored rugs are put in boiling solu-
| ton with an infusion that gives the yell
iowish cast, such as this one has. AL
ways beware of a rug with that tone.
| 1t is likely to have been treated and that
| will ruin it for wear.
| "a bank president bought handsome
| rug for his Office, paying $3.50 for it. l
IL. a H. -.
| ute l laid my eyes on it, but he thought
/ was mistaken. One night there was a
| fire in the rooms above the bank, and
| three inches of water stood on the rug
| for several hours If it had been what 1t
| was said to be 1t would have come out
of its bath as good as ever, but, being
| counterfeit, the water ruined it. The
| insurance company found it out and re-
| fused to pay the $3.50 The firm that sold
| the rug was threatened with exposure
and suit for selling the rug as an antique
and decided to take it back and refund
| the money.
"The best rugs come from Persia and
are named after the provinces in which
| they are made. Once in awhile rug
| that is made in certain province has
| the appearance of one made in another,
| and the only way one can tell to which
| class II really belongs is tn dissect II and
| find how the knots are tied. The man
| ner of making these rugs has como down
| from generation TO generation and from
| century TO century. The same patterns
persist and are done in the same colors
| The people are not inventive: neither are
| they initiative. They know how TO do
one thing well. and they keen on doing IT
as long as tbev live. and their children
| take If mn when thew Law If down.
| few wears ago aniline dves were introduc.
| ed into Persia. and a wall of desnair
| went nm from artistic people everywhere
| The exports from Persia fell off and
| the shah an learning The canse forbade
| the ;mnortat;on of thase dves and On tbe
native RUG and Garnet makers have gone
| hack to their beautiful vegetable dvos
| that will endure forever
s4Tba coIors of tho host oriental ruos
never fade. The dust and other foreign
| narticles that thav sccumulate in tho
course of fine soften the original col.
ors hut nothing Of their nrimeI cuaIitv
| Is really lost Moreover thav can be
| cleaned thoroughlv ovar end ovar and
neither the texture nor the coloring will
he tba worse for II
"The Pers;ans will ID nothing as;de
| from their own methods. hat the neonle
of India are excellent at copyine and
will ronrod,,ca . r,,o er.,r, roIo.@,, A.
sign. IL they do NOT have the original 60
perfectly that one cannot he told from
the other They are ahle even n 0et the
time softened effects In convjnU from The
old rug. Two rues are being made in In
dia to match a large sixteenth century
rug for one NJ the Vanderhilts tba a..