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THE PERSIAN FLORAL RUG

The designs of Persia may be described as "floral," and the naturalistic and conventional treatment of the flowers of Iran require an appropriate appreciation of all who have the ability to recognize the rare qualities of the art and romanticism created and transferred to a Persian rug.The flowers that the ancient studied for curves, and grouped alternately and in set patterns over the fields of their rugs, rarely, if ever, show the hampering control of fidelity to the original, or indebtedness to it for more than suggestion. Symmetry is reached through the perfect distribution of unlike motifs, leaving each individual to supply with his imagination new features that will be unlike those chosen by others.

The gardens of Persia make glad that country where to while away the hours where it seems " always afternoon " has, above many more laudable aims, distinguished the natures of those who dwell in the languorous East, and to understand the general make up of the people is to have much light thrown on the designs in many rugs.

"Floral or Garden rugs” are sometimes designed so accurately that paths, borders, and streams are easily distinguished.

Many writers have described the famous “floral carpet “as, “paradise” or garden with the finest of silk, and-

—" with jewels of the most costly and curious species, which were arranged with such consummate skill as to represent, in beautiful mosaic, trees, fruits, and flowers ; rivulets and fountains ; roses and shrubs of every description, which combined their fragrance and their foliage to charm the senses of the beholders. This piece of exquisite luxury and illusion, to which the Persians give the name of Baharestan ' or the mansion of perpetual spring, was an invention of Persians as an artificial substitute for that loveliest of seasons, spring. During the gloom of winter they were accustomed to regale themselves on this magnificent embroidery, where art supplied the absence of nature, and where guests might trace a brilliant imitation of her faded jewels."