US and European rugs

In the preparation of this section of this work, there has been no attempt or desire to slight in any way the weaving industry of the West. It has not seemed advisable, however, to go into many details on the subject, for it is one easily learned from many sources by any one who desires.

There is not the mystery about Occidental weaving that there is about Oriental, the latter perhaps appealing to our innate desire of acquir­ing knowledge difficult of access.

A short account of rug-weaving in Europe and the United States will, there­fore, be quite as satisfactory to the general reader as a more lengthy description.