Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1919 — Rare Carpets Reproduced. [ARTICLE]

Rare Carpets Reproduced.

There is now on display in London carpets that surprise those who are unacquainted with the strides-made in manufacture by British factories<durijpg the war. The carpets claimed to be exact reproductions of rard Eastern carpets and are offered at prices not much higher than ordinary loom productions.. The most remarkable feature about them is considered to be the true rendering of that eastern luster which has hitherto defied successful copying. Some of the most notable reproductions are those of the seventeenth century corqnation carpets which were made for the shah of Persia, the Khorassan rug and the famous carpet manufactured for the Sheik Ismail, the original of which hangs in the Victoria and Albert museum of London, and there are copies of others from cathedrals and art galleries. The carpets vary in size and have all been n*de in a British factory during the last three or four years.