Old rugs

area rug

Russia has carefully controlled the rug industries of the Cau­casus and Turkestan, so that only a limited number of Caucasian and Bokhara rugs are available. They are still woven in the good traditional designs and colored with vegetable dyes.

The Samarkand rugs seem to have disappeared entirely, and Turkish rugs are not in demand in the American market. Few Chinese rugs are sold nowadays, and the Chinese weavers have turned to other styles and fabrics.

Today is 1946. Next year new floorcoverings will appear; some of the older styles will vanish. The picture changes because fashions change; foreign and domestic markets and conditions change; and your own tastes change.

But American women will always have an almost confusing wealth to choose from.