Java is a advanced aggregation of present-day and transitional designs, hand-knotted from the finest Chinese wool. Each designs boasts 100% silk interwoven into the wool, affording this collection an exceedingly soft hand.

Grey Dorado Persian Oriental Area Rug Wool/Silk

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Some History of Persian and Oriental Rugs

SILK rugs of most exquisite workmanship , by some considered the masterpieces of the loom, have been woven in Persia, Turkey, India, and China. They were made for palaces and mosques under the patronage of royalty, and no expense was spared to make them perfect specimens of the handicraft of carpet-weaving. Many of the most beautiful ones have been gifts to Mecca, or some other sacred city, for the Mohammedan rulers vied with each other in making rich gifts to their shrines. The interior of the mosque at Meshed is famed for its gorgeous carpets, which harmonize so well with the splendor of its iridescent tiled walls; and the temples of the dervishes are said to be rich in these art treasures. An antique Persian "Hunting Carpet," a Turkish prayer-rug with its mihrab and hanging-lamp looking almost like stained glass, an Indian floral carpet with its long pile, said to resemble the brilliant plumage of their native birds, or a Chinese rug of imperial yellow, are any of them rare, and are to this art what the works of the old masters are to the art of painting.

Kashan, between Teheran and Ispahan, was in Shah Abbas's time, as it is to-day, the center of the silk-rug industry in Persia. The antiques, with their gorgeous colors, fine texture, and metallic luster—real works of art—seem suited to rooms of Louis XVI style, or in keeping with brilliant decorations, as those of St. Mark's at Venice. The old "Hunting Carpets," with elaborate detail work, showing in their designs forests with hunters and dogs pursuing animals of the chase, rugs with exquisite floral designs with birds, those with a medallion on a plain center, as well as the prayer pattern, are all found among the old silk carpets. The colors—red, rose shades, turquoise and the rare old blue, deep wine, ivory, and green—in silk have less warmth and softness than .the fine wool carpets, but often possess iridescent luster not seen in any other rugs.

The modern reproductions of the Modern Persian old in design and color are of much  better quality and workmanship than the rugs of Anatolia. They are seldom made as large or as elaborate in design as many of the antiques; the usual size is four by six feet. The warp and woof are often of silk, and they are finished with narrow web and fringe.

The antique Anatolian, or Turkish Turkish silk rug, follows the designs of the Ghiordes wool rug, having the temple design with its lamp, showing that it was intended for sacred use. The intricacy of design in the borders and in the spandrels above the point is heightened by the fine material.

Modern The modern rugs are of two grades : the better one, made in the Sultan's factory at Hereke, rivals the modern Persians in quality and follows them in design, as well as reproduces the antique Turkish patterns; while those made at Kaisarieh are purely Turkish in design and less desirable in coloring, dyes, and workmanship. The India and Chinese silk rugs are Chinese extinct. The India rugs resembled the Persian in design, but with much Hindu feeling, and the Chinese differed not in design from the wool rugs of Peking.