Classification of rugs: weavers

There are two classes of weavers, the sedentary and the nomadic. The former weave in their houses during the Winter, and in their courtyards during the Summer. The nomads spend the Winter in mud villages, and in the Summer go to the mountains with their flocks and

live in tents made of goat's hair. The manner of life of the sedentary weaver works havoc with her constitution even in her youth; and consequently one is not surprised at her frail appearance. In Summer she is oppressed with heat as she sits before the frame, and in Winter she is almost frozen, for she has. to work in the open air in order to have sufficient light. Hers is,not an easy life. It would be pleasant to believe that in her toil, which she carries on with wondrous patience and in the hum­blest surroundings, the conscientious weaver finds the same inward satisfaction that comes to the true artist elsewhere.