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The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...

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The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...

Curiosities and wonders; Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Questions and answers; Science -- Miscellanea; Technology -- Miscellanea

It is only a step from the ancient weaving of rugs, with all the color,
glamor and romance that attached to rug-weaving in the ancient days, to
the manufacture of rugs in America to-day. There is no romance attached
to the making of rugs and carpets in America, except the romance of
industrial achievement; but the American rug-maker is as careful of the
quality and beauty of his product as was the ancient weaver, and the
best standards of ancient weaving have been realized in the manufacture
of rugs and carpets in America to-day.


Why Did the Ancients Make Rugs?

It is only a rug, several yards of woven threads, a design that few
can understand--a simple thing, to be sure; yet what a lot of history
and memories and traditions it carries! Merely a strip of carpet, with
strange figures, beautiful though meaningless, a product of modern
invention like many another, some may think. But the story of a rug may
go back through many centuries to ancient times of opulent splendor,
when wars were waged and kingdoms created and shattered for the beauty
of a woman; when gorgeous palaces were raised and great spectacles of
art were shown to inspire the world for thousands of years.

Only a rug, but a relic of a rich and glowing past! For in those
distant days of war and pageantry, an era more classic than our own,
history and romance were woven into the rug. The patterns and designs
told great stories of wars and loves that swept nations away and
created great new empires and related vivid accounts of intrigue and
tragedy that determined history and inspired the immortal works of
poets and dramatists. The rug in the ancient times was also used for
religious symbolism, and sacred doctrines were inscribed in the woven
figures.

Of all the arts none has been as close to the lives and history of the
peoples of the earth as the art of weaving. Songs and stories of these
peoples and their national achievements have been immortalized through
their woven fabrics. Generations have learned of the great deeds of
their forefathers through the historical accounts woven into rugs. And
in the days of the early Greeks, Hebrews and Egyptians and on through
the succeeding centuries until the middle ages the rug was used as a
symbolical part of state, religious and romantic ceremonies.


What Makes Some Rugs so Valuable?

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The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...

Curiosities and wonders; Encyclopedias and dictionaries; Questions and answers; Science -- Miscellanea; Technology -- Miscellanea

It is only a step from the ancient weaving of rugs, with all the color,
glamor and romance that attached to rug-weaving in the ancient days, to
the manufacture of rugs in America to-day. There is no romance attached
to the making of rugs and carpets in America, except the romance of
industrial achievement; but the American rug-maker is as careful of the
quality and beauty of his product as was the ancient weaver, and the
best standards of ancient weaving have been realized in the manufacture
of rugs and carpets in America to-day.


Why Did the Ancients Make Rugs?

It is only a rug, several yards of woven threads, a design that few
can understand--a simple thing, to be sure; yet what a lot of history
and memories and traditions it carries! Merely a strip of carpet, with
strange figures, beautiful though meaningless, a product of modern
invention like many another, some may think. But the story of a rug may
go back through many centuries to ancient times of opulent splendor,
when wars were waged and kingdoms created and shattered for the beauty
of a woman; when gorgeous palaces were raised and great spectacles of
art were shown to inspire the world for thousands of years.

Only a rug, but a relic of a rich and glowing past! For in those
distant days of war and pageantry, an era more classic than our own,
history and romance were woven into the rug. The patterns and designs
told great stories of wars and loves that swept nations away and
created great new empires and related vivid accounts of intrigue and
tragedy that determined history and inspired the immortal works of
poets and dramatists. The rug in the ancient times was also used for
religious symbolism, and sacred doctrines were inscribed in the woven
figures.

Of all the arts none has been as close to the lives and history of the
peoples of the earth as the art of weaving. Songs and stories of these
peoples and their national achievements have been immortalized through
their woven fabrics. Generations have learned of the great deeds of
their forefathers through the historical accounts woven into rugs. And
in the days of the early Greeks, Hebrews and Egyptians and on through
the succeeding centuries until the middle ages the rug was used as a
symbolical part of state, religious and romantic ceremonies.


What Makes Some Rugs so Valuable?

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...

The book of wonders : $b gives plain and simple answers to the thousands of everyday questions that are asked and which all should be able to, but cannot answer...

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