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ORNAMENT AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS. 189 the webs of Egypt and Assyria. The tapestries issued from the workshops of Babylon and Anterior Asia were figured ; the borders often taken up by flowers and leaves and long rows of animals, real or fantas- tic, of whom Orientals have always been en- amoured. Here, on the contrary, the patterns are entirely made up of geometrical combinations. Tomb Fig. 89 forms the only r<7 FIG. 129. Turkish woman at her loom. BE.NNDORK, A't/sen, torn. i. p. 18, Fig. 12. deviation to the general rule ; hence we may assume that vegetable ornament took up but a narrow space. Nowadays, whether under
