Knot.—Ghiordes. Number vertically eight to twelve; number horizontally eight to fourteen; number to square inch sixty-four to one hundred sixty-eight.
LADIK PRAYER RUG
Size 5'10" × 3'11"
PROPERTY OF COLONEL GEORGE G. BRIGGS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.
Warp.—Always wool, generally of a fine texture and dyed the predominating color of the rug.
Woof.—Always wool and usually dyed the predominating color of the rug.
Nap.—In the antiques the finest, selected, lustrous wool, which is generally cut short. In the moderns a coarse wool of loose texture.
Weave.—Antiques closely and evenly woven. Moderns loosely woven.
Sides.—A fairly wide colored selvage, made by weaving the woof threads upon three or four of the outside warp threads. Sometimes the selvage is added.
Ends.—Usually a two-or three-inch red web at each end, which is frequently striped with yellow or blue. A fringe formed by the loose warp ends.