THE GAEKWAR'S CARPET.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1740, 3 May 1913, Page 12

THE GAEKWAR'S CARPET.

Tho Gaekwar of Baroda has lent ono< fourth part of his renowned carpet to South Kensington, whore it is to bo ■ seen, framed and glazed liko a master- ' pieco of painting, among tho jewels id tho Indian section (states a writer in ail ' English paper). It is less a carpet indeed than a luißO and extravagant pieco 1 of jowellcry. Tho women flocking thick- . ly round it in volublo admiration wero inoro taken with its richness than with its great beauty of colour and design. Thoy mado gallant efforts to count tho ■ pearls and diamonds, but gave it up for weariness after doing a few inches, Thero • ■ are six square, feet of seed pearls—a . 6oftly shimmering background starred , with bosses of soft gold 6haped liko , flowers, enclosing rough pieces of ... diamonds, and across tho milky held ol , tho oarpet run wonderful light blue , stems, oncircling mid interlacing, worked out in somo-commoner materials, appar- ... cntly glass beads, but with rubies, . emeralds, and sapphire hero and there. . Tho refinement of the design and tho delicacy of tho workmanship quite , tako tho mind away . from tho profusion of jewels. Olio feels that} it would linvo been almost a* beautiful if glass beads had been used -. throughout. The carpet w mado m tlio reign of a mid-Victorian Gaekwar, and it took tho best embroiderers and tlio master jewellers of Baroda tlireo years to, do it. It, is tlio reminder of a pieco of frustrated piety, for it was intended to 1» sent to Medina to form a splendid covering for Mahomet's tomb.. The Gael;war's wife was a Mahometan. But tho Mullahs demanded tho right to break up tho carpet if they chose, and distribute tho iowcls among tho priests and pilgrims, and tho Gaekwar very naturally pi*ferre<l to keep tho carpet himself. One feels • grateful to tho jlullahs for rying to look a gift horso so insolently In tho i when ono stands in Uio dnvk jowel-ioi and sees the carpet sending out , radiance, 'lho policeman who wops a sSI wnteh over tlio now troa.nre w. s rather Utter about it y^5J- on L ho . asked in tho best utilH»«i"i \eiii, "What's tho good of a carpet yon can t walk onP"

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