The Oriental Rug BookF.A. Stokes Company, 1904 - 310 pages |
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ancient antique Asia Minor AUTHOR'S DESCRIPTION beads beautiful belief Benguiat blue Bokhara Bokhara rugs border stripes Buddhist caravans carpets Caucasian CAUCASIAN RUGS Caucasus centre centuries China Chinese colour conventionalized cotton Daghestan decoration district divisions dragon East emblems fabrics field floral geometric Ghiordes GHIORDEZ RUG Hadji Ephraim Benguiat Hamadan Hindu Indian influence Ispahan Kaaba Kabistan Khiva Kirman knots Kulah rugs Ladik looms lotus materials Mecca medallion Melhaz methods migration Mohammedan Mongolian mosque motifs mountain native natural nomad ORIENTAL EXPERT'S DESCRIPTION Oriental rugs origin orna ornament outline PERSIAN RUGS pilgrims prayer prayer-niche prayer-rugs primitive religion Rhodian rosary RUG Loaned RUG RUG-PLATE S. S. Costikyan sacred Samarkand shades SHIRAZ RUG Shirvan silk sometimes Soumac specimens star student style symbols textiles things thought tion to-day traced tree tribal patterns Tughra Turcoman TURCOMAN RUGS TURKISH RUGS Urumiah various warp threads weavers weaving woof threads wool woven
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Page 81 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind -- from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.
Page xviii - I see male and female everywhere, I see the serene brotherhood of philosophs, I see the constructiveness of my race, I see the results of the perseverance and industry of my race, I see ranks, colors, barbarisms, civilizations, I go among them, I mix indiscriminately, And I salute all the inhabitants of the earth.
Page xvii - Back of the canvas that throbs the painter is hinted and hidden; Into the statue that breathes the soul of the sculptor is bidden; Under the Joy that is felt lie the infinite issues of feeling; Crowning the glory revealed Is the glory that crowns the revealing. Great are the symbols of being, but that which is...
Page 276 - There is no God but God,* one holding the rosary and counting each repetition. After each thousand they sometimes rest, and take coffee ; then 100 times, ' (I extol) the perfection of God with his praise:' then the same number of times, ' I beg forgiveness of God the great...
Page 276 - This done, one of them asks his companions, " Have ye transferred [the merit of] what ye have recited to the soul of the deceased ? " They reply, " We have transferred it ; " and add, " And peace be on the Apostles,
Page 248 - The early cosmogonists enlarged upon the imaginary data of previous writers, and averred that there were four distinct kinds of dragons proper — the t'ien-lung or celestial dragon, which guards the mansions of the gods and supports them so that they do not fall; the...
Page 276 - God is one :' then recite the last chapter but one and the first, and then say three times, 'O God. favor the most excellent and most happy of thy creatures, our lord Mohammed, and his family and companions, and preserve them.' To this they add, 'All who commemorate thee are the mindful, and those who omit commemorating thee are the negligent.
Page 268 - Brahma, the first person in the Triad, or Trimurti, of the Hindus, which consists of Brahma the creator; Vishnu the preserver or redeemer; and Siva the destroyer. He is represented with four heads and as many arms, holding in his four hands a manuscript book containing a portion of the Vedas, a pot for holding water, a rosary, and a sacrificial spoon. The swan is consecrated to him and in the cave temple of Elephanta he is represented as sitting on a lotus, supported by five swans. He is the god...
Page xxiii - Tis but a Tent where takes his one day's rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest.
Page 268 - ... skulls of the gods as ornaments and garlands. Another legend describes how at the end of one of the early ages of the universe he burnt up the gods by a flash from his central eye, and afterwards rubbed their ashes upon his body ; whence the use of ashes is considered of great importance in his worship. Another legend accounts for the use of Rudraksha berries in the rosaries of Siva by describing how he once let fall some tears of rage which became converted into these seeds. Their connexion...