Rug making in China

The refinement of implements and processes a loss as well as a gain has been accomplished, virility and simplicity of conception giving place at times to less vigor with advance in skill.

Some­times several woof threads are twisted loosely together before they are wound on the shuttle, and after taking their places in the web they separate and appear like four threads, even when the shuttle is only thrown back and forth once between each two rows of knots.

This description has to do with the rugs of Eastern China.

The rugs of Western China and of Chinese Turkestan, and many of the rugs of Manchuria, of Northern China and the "cold countries" carry woof threads of wool and in some instances the entire web is woven of wool strands for both warp and woof.