About Chinese rug weaving

Beside copying Ming styles, K'ang-shi rugs show Persian influence in design, and the color schemes, even where later designs are used, are similar to those of the late Ming period.

Manchurian ideas and colors are noticeable in late K'ang-hsi rugs and in the Yung-cheng period such are included.

With Kien-lung came the Turkestan, East Indian and Samarcand in­fluences, as well as the development and demonstration of designs and methods purely Chinese, so that the Kien-lung period of sixty years, covering as it did the greater part of the eighteenth century, included in its products a reproduction of almost everything that had gone before, as well as much of additional interest and beauty.