Rug weaving in China

There are certain technical peculiari-ties in weaving that have produced styles now known as Ming, K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng, Kien-lung and Tao-kuang.

In the classification of Chinese rugs, allusion is more often made to monarchs than to centuries, for styles evolved under the patron­age of one or another sovereign, and these styles, with the influence upon them of foreign conquest and intercourse with other nations, eventually resulted in producing the various schemes adopted by weavers.