Stylish rugs

Whether certain types of floorcoverings are in or out of fashion, some periods have style, some have not. Great Grand­mother's Victorian carpet with its lush lilies and roses on a black ground had style.

The color was rich and harmonious and the design had good form and balance.

Mother's dreary taupe Wilton rug spattered with black and blue motifs which were not truly Chinese, not truly Oriental—in fact, not truly anything but bad—never did have style.

If instead she had chosen a careful reproduction of a Persian Serebend or a French floral, which were also available at that time, it would still be acceptable today because it was fundamentally good design and good color.