Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-07-01 | Page 9 | Rare Carpets Are Reproductions

RARE CARPETS ARE REPRODUCTIONS There are new on display in London carpets that fui prise those who are unacquainted with the strides mnde in' manufacture nv British factories dur-. ing the war. The carpets are claimed to be e.vact re productions' of rare eastern east-ern carpets aim are offered at prices not much higher than ordinary loom productions. The most remarkable feature about them is considered tu be the true rendering ren-dering of that eastern luster which; has hitherto defied successful copying, j Some of the most notable reproductions reproduc-tions are those of the seventeenth cen tury coronation carpets which were made for the sh.ih of Persia, the Knor-assan Knor-assan rug and 'ho famous carpet manufactured manu-factured for the Sheik Ismail, the original orig-inal of which angs in the Victoria and Albert museum of London, und there are cop es of others from cathedrals cathed-rals and art galleries. The carpets vary in size and have all been made in a British factory during dur-ing the last three or four years.