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Story of Rugs Told to University Guild by S K Jorjorian
S K Jorjorian lectured the University Guild in Evanston about Oriental rugs, tracing their history from 2800 B C to modern times. He described weaving origins in Egypt Assyria or Persia, dye sources, sacred trees and symbols, and the three rug styles geometric naturalistic and conventional with examples from Persian Turkish Caucasian and Indian patterns.
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University Guild
S. K. Jorjorian
Evanston
Orrington Ballroom
Egypt
China
Assyria
Persia
America
Western Asia
Lozange
Jorjorian
Charles H. Dennis
Daniel Boone
Theodore C. Keller
G. K. Haviland
Lawrence E. Erdman
William M. Stearns
Michigan