White in Chinese rugs

With white also we find limitless variations, so that a blue and white wool rug of China may show blue of any of the well known shades with quite as wide a range of tones in the white wool employed in the field.

Cream and ash white, egg-shell white and clay color, grey white and putty color, silver white and blanc de chine, are a few of the numberless shades employed in making the so-called blue and white rugs of China and as in porcelains, so in textiles, never does the color known as the "blue shown in a rift in the clouds after rain" ap­pear to such advantage as when blue is com bined   with   the  cloud   white   most   closely related to it.