Rugs: import

Accent Rugs

In normal times we import a good many hand-knotted rugs from Czechoslovakia. The sketches for them are usually drawn in this country—even custom-made for you if you must have a certain size, style, color or shape.

Prices vary with the quality of the fabric ordered. If ten knots are tied into every square inch, naturally the cost is less than if there are sixty-four.

But there is an enormous difference in the appearance of your carpet too-only in a fine texture can you get delicate modeling and detail and subtle blending of color.

The famous Austrian hand-knotted rugs are somewhat more expensive and a real French Savonnerie, made now in the Gobelin factory, is still the king of carpets. The yarn in most floorcovering pile is made up of two or three strands of wool or worsted.

In a Savonnerie, each tuft may have as many as a dozen separate strands of fine worsted yarn.