Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1893 — Making Rugs by Hand. [ARTICLE]

Making Rugs by Hand.

The Turkish and Persian rugs which are sold at fancy prices bv the carpet men are all made by hand, not even a loom being employed. The work requires great skill and infinite patience, so that the prices for genuine goods are by no means too large. Some of them require the labor of one man for six months or a year before they are completed and put on the market, while the highest-priced rugs, have often been toiled at, day after day, for three or four years before they are finished.