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Photograph by D. W. Iddings 



A -MAT MARKET IN BULGARIA, NEAR TTlK RUMANIAN FRONTIER 



Most of the floor coverings used in the houses of the Balkan States arc hancLwoven from 

 grass fiber. The men who weave the fiber rugs also sell them. The middleman is the excep- 

 tion and not the rule here. 



