Shape of rugs and floorcoverings

Each form of floorcovering design has its place. It belongs with architecture and furniture which has a like sophistication or naivete, static strength or fluid grace, simplicity or elaborateness.

Because you have 18th Century English furniture it is not necessary to use a carpet with an 18th Century English pattern.

A design which is French, Persian, Chinese, or a fairly sophisti­cated hooked rug, is just as suitable, because they have a rela­tionship of form. A Navajo, a Swedish rya or a bold modern pattern would be wrong because the form has no kinship.