Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — Persian Carpets. [ARTICLE]

Persian Carpets.

People in Europe who buy Persian carpets little think of the enormous labor that has been expended on the weaving. It is done exclusively by hand, and every stitch in the carpets is made separately, being afterward clipped with the scissors and beaten down. Some idea of the work may be formed when it is known that iix a carpet there are ten thousand stitches to every square foot. Cut off a rooster’s spurs and you take the italics all out of his crow.— Barn's Horn. *