The book Peruvian Fabrics was written by author Crawford, Morris De Camp, 1882-1949 Here you can read free online of Peruvian Fabrics book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Peruvian Fabrics a good or bad book?
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The diagram will show this much more clearly than can the written text (Fig. 30). a represents the cord looped on itself to form the bJsic fabric; 6, represents the knots of wool and hair. It will show that in a technical sense no two fabrics could be more unlike. Rugs are plainly a development of woven textiles, they belong to a class closely related to tapestry. In fact, the earliest rugs were unpiled kelims or actual tapestry. The Peruvian fabrics, (Fig. 31) on the other hand, belong rather ...to the division of fabrics of which lace is the highest form, and are a development of nets. After these knots were attached they were cut so as to give an even surface. This cutting is very even, but we have no knowledge as to the implement used. Compared with tapestry, pile knot is a thing of yesterday. There is Digitized by Google 158 Anthropological Papers American Museum of Natural History. I Vol. XII, strong evidence to support the theory that the modern form of rug came into existence rather late in the textile development of Asia.
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