cipal source of income, 54;
use of rugs in, 54;
export and import trade and value of rug industry, 55, 56;
home consumption of part of product, 54, 56;
manufacturing firms, 56, 57;
official name, Iran, 62;
silk trade with China, 123;
place-names, 167.

"Persian Art," Smith, 177.

Persian berries, 44, 45.

Persian coat of arms, 160.

Persian designs in India, 87, 88;
in Jaipur rugs, 91;
in Lahore rugs, 91;
in Warangul rugs, 93;
once used in Japan, 116.

Persian Empire, its conquest by Saracens, 19.

Persian knotting, 34-36.

"Persian Life and Customs," Wilson, 178.

Persian rugs, Tree of Life design on, 17;
value of, 28;
excellence of design and coloring, 37;
animal designs, 37, 38;
designs and borders in good antiques, 38;
characteristic designs, 40-43;
choice of colors, 47;
use of, in Persia, 54;
small ones not exported, 54;
durability of fine specimens, 54;
used as hangings, 55;
districts where woven, 55;
experts can tell where woven, 55;
value of trade in, 55, 56;
export and import duties on, 56;
manufactured for Western markets, 56, 57;
descriptions of characteristic weaves, 58-70;
preferred to Indian, 87;
silk rugs, 124
(plate), 125;
hunting rugs, 128;
antique rug, 156 (plate); symbols, 160.

Persian weavers taken to India, 87.

Persian wool, 30.

"Persische Nadelmalerei, Die," Karabacek, 176.

Peshawar sheep, 30;
meaning of _Peshawar_, 163;
spelling, 166, 173.

Petrie, William Matthews Flinders. 177.

"Pharaohs, Fellahs, and Explorers," Third Lecture, Edwards, 176.

Philadelphia, power looms in, 24;
rug-production of, 143.

Phillips, G., 177.

Phoenician art, 18.

Phoenician purple, 18.

Phoenix, symbolism of, 157, 160, 162.

Pig, symbolism of, 162.

Pine cone, symbolism of, 169.

Pine trees, symbolism of, 160.

Pirot, Servia, 136.

Place-names associated with rugs, meanings of, 162, 163;
various spellings of, 164-174.

Pliny, quoted, 45.

Plutarch, quoted, 45.

Polish rugs, 119.

Pomegranate design, 41, 159.

Poona, 166, 173.

Pooneh, 166.

Power looms, 22, 24.

Prayer rugs, Ghiordes, 75;
Ghiordes and Kulah, 78;
Ladik, 79;
modern and antique compared, 80;
Beluchistan, 97;
Karamanian and Kurdish, 117;
description, 120-