London; C. Purdon Clarke,
London; and Alois Riegl, Vienna, and a preface by A. von Scala,
Vienna, (n) _Ancient Oriental Carpets_, a supplement to the above,
four parts containing twenty-five plates with text (Leipzig, 1906,
large folio). (12) _Vorderasiatische Knupfteppiche aus alterer Zeit_,
by Wilhelm Bode (Leipzig, 1901). This learned treatise gives _inter
alia_ suggestive notes upon the production of the so-called Polish
carpets and of Spanish carpets. (13) _Ein orientalischer Teppich vom
Jahre 1202 und die altesten orientalischen Teppiche_, by Alois Riegl
(Berlin, 1895). A coloured illustration is given of a pile curtain
with a triple niche design and an Armenian inscription that it was
made by "Gorzi the Artist" to the glory of the church of St
Hripsime--an Armenian martyr. The date 651 appears in the inscription,
but Riegl adduces valid reasons for reading it as the equivalent of
A.D. 1202. Another pile carpet of conventional garden design, probably
not of earlier manufacture than 14th century, is also illustrated and
carefully discussed, especially in connexion with the appearance in it
of well-authenticated Sassanid devices--streams with fishes and birds,
&c. (14) _Report on Carpets at the Paris Exhibition of 1900_, by
Ferdinand Leborgne (1901, 8vo). (15) _Oriental Rugs_, by John Kimberly
Mumford (London, 1901), contains twenty-four colour-plate and autotype
reproductions of rugs and eight photo-engravings of phases of the rug
industry--amongst which latter are: "A Nomad Studio," "Kurdish Girls
at the Loom," "Boy Weavers of Tabriz," and a "Rug Market in Iran."
(16) _Rugs, Oriental and Occidental_, by Rosa Belle Holt (Chicago,
1901), well illustrated, with colour-plate reproductions of various
types of rugs, including less known Chinese and Navajo specimens. (17)
_The Art Workers' Quarterly_, vol. iii. No. II, July 1904; article on
the pile carpet belonging to the Worshipful Company of Girdlers of the
City of London, by A.F. Kendrick, with a colour-plate of this
remarkable carpet, made to the order of the master of the company in
1634 at Lahore. (18) _Journal of Indian Art and Industry: Indian
Carpets and Rugs_ (parts 87 to 94) (London, 1905 and 1906). Upwards of
ninety-nine illustrations of many varieties of Indian and Persian
carpets are given in this publication, a large number showing debased
versions of fine designs, e.g. some from the Punj