This rug was made somewhat later than Plates I and II, and probably after the time of the Emperor Kien Lung. During that reign more or less elaborate use seems to have been made of foliate floral arrangements, drawn like those seen here in the broader border stripe. From using these patterns in small areas, such as borders or in individual bits upon a plain field, was developed the fashion of covering the entire central area with them, almost always in the same colors,--yellow and blush red. The reds were inclined to fade, and as the rugs grew older they attained wonderful delicacy of tone. Where the “grains of rice” pattern is employed there is, in most cases, a certain quantity of red or pink interpolated in some part of the rug, for the obvious purpose of showing up the somewhat cold, thin yellow, which otherwise would be too weak to be attractive. It is noticed here in the main border, the ground of the inner border with fret pattern, and in the scrolls which inclose the five floral medallions. For some reason, probably racial, there appears in these “rice pattern” rugs far more often than in any type the “barring” of color--that is to say, a change in the ground color, usually to a lighter shade--so as to form a bar or transverse stripe across the field. This is a common practice among the Kurds in western Persia, who believe that it makes for good luck. Further illustration of this irregularity occurs widely throughout Chinese weavings in the seemingly “hit-or-miss” distribution of many colors, principally the blues in the border patterns. This peculiarity is very well shown in the present example, but is confined to the border section. In the medallions of the field every element seems to have been worked out with the greatest regularity and exactitude. PREPARED BY THE EDITORIAL STAFF OF THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION ILLUSTRATION FOR THE MENTOR, VOL. 4, No. 2, SERIAL No. 102 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE MENTOR ASSOCIATION, INC. [Illustration: PLATE V OLD CHINESE TEMPLE RUG] CHINESE RUGS OLD CHINESE TEMPLE RUG Monograph Number Five in The Mentor Reading Course Length, ten feet. Width, eight feet. Forty-two hand-tied knots to the square inch.