KASHAN SILK RUG
From the collection of Mr. A. U. Dilley
Sizes.—Only carpet sizes.
Prices.—From $2.00 to $10.00 a square foot.
Remarks.—Among the antique Kashans are a number of old "Hunting Carpets" with elaborate detail work showing in their design forests with hunters and dogs pursuing animals of the chase.
THE EXAMPLE ILLUSTRATED
The Kashan silk rugs are as a class the best silk rugs made and this particular one illustrates the best Persian spirit in design and workmanship. Although not as finely woven as some, it has four hundred and eighty-four knots to the square inch and it is made exclusively of the best Persian silk.
SOUJ BULAK
Why So Named.-After Souj Bulak, the old Kurdish capital some distance south of Tabriz, where they are made by the Kurds.
Knot.—Ghiordes. Number vertically six to eight; number horizontally eight to eleven; number to square inch forty-eight to eighty-eight.