Rug dyeing

About 1910, aniline dyes were first introduced into the Orient. 'World War I called a four years' recess for the weavers.

At its end there was such a craze for Oriental rugs that every effort was made to "speed up" production. Inferior dyes, materials and workmanship crept in, and this was the beginning of the end of e best Persian rugs.

There are about twenty well-known regional types of antique -and "semi-antique" pieces. An antique is supposed to be at least I? One hundred years old.

A semi-antique can be any rug old enough | to have mellow color and some natural luster that is not the yproduct of chemical washing.

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