best are woven in the jail. The finest
specimen that I have seen belongs to Mrs. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, and
is a duplicate of one owned by Mrs. Frederick D. Grant. The rug is of
enormous size and weight, and the tree design is arranged in shades of
exquisite blue upon a field of delicate fawn color. The border, in the
same coloring, gives the most perfect harmony to the entire rug. Many
more Agra rugs would be imported, but there is now a United States law
prohibiting the importation of goods made in jail.

_Allahabad_ rugs are similar to those of Agra, but the latter are as a
rule preferable.

_Amritsar_ gives employment to over twenty thousand men and boys, and
supplies the market with some of the finest of modern Indian rugs.
Leading English and American firms have factories located there, and for
that reason rugs brought into the Occident from Amritsar are reliable.
They are firm in texture, and have fast colors. The manufacturers
realize the importance of these attributes in a rug, and their own
responsibility in the matter.

The _Dhurrie_ (Durrie) is a strong, well-made rug of cotton, often in
stripes of blue, brown, or gray, with narrow yellow and red lines. Some
Dhurries end in a fringe, and are square. In India they are largely used
by the foreign population, and in the United States they are especially
appropriate for summer time. They are made chiefly at Agra, Cawnpur,
Delhi, Lucknow, and in the vicinity of Bombay.

_Ellore_ rugs belong to the inexpensive class, but the designs and
colors are pleasing. As they are made chiefly of fibre mixed with wool,
they are not durable.

Formerly _Haidarabad_ sent out rugs famous for their beauty, with
designs in the forms of medallions, filled with flat floral ornaments
and woven with wool pile on a cotton foundation. But the modern
Haidarabad by no means compares with the antique.

_Jaipur_ rugs are generally made in the schools of art. They contain
many Persian designs representing animals and the cypress tree. The
borders are floral, and the field is generally ivory, red, or blue.

_Lahore_, the British capital of the Punjab, has rugs woven in both wool
and cotton, and the work is done mostly in jails. The designs are
Persian, and the texture embraces from forty to one hundred knots to the
square inch.

_Madras_ rugs are chiefly made in large quantities for commercial and
export purposes.

_Masulipatam_ rugs were once noted for their beauty, but now ma