Chinese rug colorings

As far as we are able to determine by study of the rugs of China themselves, there has been no servile allegiance whatever shown by weavers to the significance of colors.

Chinese color symbolism is more accurate and direct than any of the ancient schemes for the use of colors, and in many branches of art it obtains and may be de­pended upon, though not in rug weaving.

There are five colors considered sacred in China, each one supposed to be related to various natural objects and phenomena.

One and another method is observed by authorities in the arrangement of these colors, the sequence most commonly accepted being black, green, red, white, yellow.