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ART OBjEcts: Textile with marigold and oe textile with morning-glory and 
pomegranate flowers, Indian pipe case of carved ivory with oriental poppy 
leaves and flowers, tile with almond one ms, etc. On the walls adjoining: 
Textile with sprays of single pink hyacinths, Asia Minor tile hes single blue 
hyacinths and poet’s narcissus, textile showing almond tree planted in front 
of the cypress, and a series of Asia Minor wall tiles of the seventeenth century 
with the cypress, rose, late tulip, and carnation used as motiv 
“After you have sufficiently admired the arrangement and 
coloring of the iris and marigold flowers in that textile, you 
should examine rather closely the wall tiles to the left of and 
above the case. In the little Persian textile just above the 
cypress photographs, you will see an almond tree represented in 
flower with a cypress tree as a background. This method of 
arrangement will be seen later in many forms, sometimes reduced 
to a mere blue wave or other conventional form with a row of 
citcular patterns along the central axis to represent the almond 
blossoms. 
“The large screen behind us contains a number of pressed 
specimens and colored figures of plants that have been used in 
decorative design in Europe and Asia; among them the bryony, 
almond, snapdragon, olive, oriental plane, aster, sunflower, 
hepatica, strawberry, foxglove, honeysuckle, oriental and field 
poppies, iris, violet, peony, and Japanese ivy. Many of them 
naturally belong in the cases with the art objects, but there is 
not room for them.” 
THe Souta Wixpow 
“The sheaf of grain represents the use of wheat and other 
cereals in laces, wood-carvings, etc. Sometimes the grains were 
arranged in symmetrical patterns, as in this piece of lace, but 
usually the entire heads were used, as in this remarkable piece of 
drawn-work. Mrs. Robinson told me the other day that she 
once saw in a house in Richmond, Virginia, some door casings 
beautifully decorated with designs obtained from stalks of ripe 
Wheat. In one of these lace patterns, you will notice designs 
resembling wheels. These refer to the custom in vogue in 
certain parts of Asia where circles of wheat are left uncut, being 
dedicated to one of the pagan gods who was supposed to bring 
happiness. 
