CHINESE RUGS
ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG
Monograph Number One in The Mentor Reading Course
Length, nine feet nine inches.
Width, five feet five inches.
Forty-two hand-tied knots to the square inch.
This attractive rug is representative of a very admirable class of Chinese floor fabrics, and illustrates in the clearest manner some interesting and important features in the rug weaving art of China. The knottage, as will be learned from the specification above, is not great. A Mohammedan sedjadeh with only 42 knots to the square inch would be held of small merit, unless it came from one of two or three districts in Asia Minor—Bergamo for example, or else had some individual element of value, such as great age, phenomenal color, or uncommon design. In China, however, as has been pointed out in the accompanying text, high textures are not accounted of large importance.