Chapter I: Front Matter

THE
PRACTICAL BOOK
OF ORIENTAL RUGS

FOURTH EDITION

THE
PRACTICAL BOOKS
OF HOME LIFE ENRICHMENT

_EACH PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED,
HANDSOMELY BOUND.
Octavo. Cloth. In a slip case._

THE PRACTICAL BOOK
OF EARLY AMERICAN
ARTS AND CRAFTS
BY HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN
AND ABBOT MCCLURE

THE PRACTICAL BOOK
OF ARCHITECTURE
BY C. MATLACK PRICE

THE PRACTICAL BOOK
OF ORIENTAL RUGS
BY DR. G. GRIFFIN LEWIS
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF
GARDEN ARCHITECTURE
BY PHEBE WESTCOTT HUMPHREYS

THE PRACTICAL BOOK
OF PERIOD FURNITURE
BY HAROLD DONALDSON EBERLEIN
AND ABBOT MCCLURE

THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF
OUTDOOR ROSE GROWING
BY GEORGE C. THOMAS, JR.
NEW REVISED EDITION

THE PRACTICAL BOOK OF
INTERIOR DECORATION

This piece is unusual in many ways. The background of old
ivory both in the borders and in the field; the old rose color of the
octagons; the difference in the number of border stripes and in the
designs of same on the sides and ends are all non-Turkoman features.
It is the only so called "white Bokhara" of which we have
any knowledge.]

THE
PRACTICAL BOOK
OF ORIENTAL RUGS

BY
DR. G. GRIFFIN LEWIS

WITH 20 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR, 93 IN DOUBLETONE
70 DESIGNS IN LINE, CHART AND MAP

_NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED_

PHILADELPHIA & LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS
PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.

PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION

It is most gratifying to both author and publishers that the first edition of "The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs" has been so quickly exhausted. Its rather remarkable sale, in spite of the fact that within the past decade, no less than seven books on the subject have been printed in English, proves that it is the practical part of the book that appeals to the majority.

The second edition has been prepared with the same practical idea paramount and quite a few new features have been introduced.

The color plates have been increased from ten to twenty; a chapter on Chinese rugs has been inserted; descriptions of three more rugs have been added and numerous changes and additions have been made to the text in general.