Chinese rugs

Instead of adhering to original patterns several firms employing designers have added to the original motifs and sometimes in the border of a modern Chinese rug will be seen mixed motifs. Sometimes one part of a design will be taken from one border and part from another and these two will be so arranged as to form a so-called Chinese border.

These rugs are made in factories in China and also in Asia Minor, Austria, India and other countries, and I have actually seen them being woven in New York City.

The Great War bottled up the Dardanelles and prevented the exportation of Oriental rugs from Persia and Turkey but following the Armistice rugs from the Far East flooded the market.

Before the war Chinese rugs and rugs from Chinese Turkestan were just beginning to be popular, and when other rugs were no longer to be found the Chinese captured the market.

They lend themselves to many rooms where the strong colors of the modern Near-Eastern rug might not be harmonious. But as with alrtncoming carpets they also, when too strong in color, are dyed to please our taste by having a certain preparation put into the dye vats that softens the texture as well as the color.