Materials in Chinese rugs

The Chinese rugs which are available for examination and study to-day, about which expert students have a right to speculate, and in regard to which trained opinion is of great value, are made with a pile of either fine or coarse wool, hair, or silk, seldom if ever of either cotton or jute.

Sometimes the wool is so coarse that it has the appearance of jute, and rugs are often classified as jute that are in reality of coarse hair or wool. Japanese rugs that imitate Persian and Chinese are made of cotton or jute, and need not be mistaken for the products which they imitate, as they are distinctive   and  may   be   very   easily  placed.