A History of Tufted Rugs

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《天津地毯工業》 Republican-era Chinese primary source (scan)

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Collection
Tuft the World research brief: The Non-English Record
Publisher
Author: 方显廷 (H. D. Fong), Nankai 工业丛刊 no. 1; Wikimedia Commons copy not located
Themes
Global diffusion of tufting, Woven carpet

Cite this source

“《天津地毯工業》 Republican-era Chinese primary source (scan),” n.d. Tuft the World research brief: The Non-English Record. nkie.nankai.edu.cn/2017/0502/c11716a121465/page.htm.

Research notes

Free on Wikimedia Commons, from the National Library of China. Blocked to automated fetching; one click in a browser. Citation check (Oct 2026, from search results; pages not opened): partly confirmed. The work exists: 《天津地毯工业》 (Tientsin Carpet Industry) by 方显廷 / H. D. Fong, Nankai University Committee on Social and Economic Research. It was the first of his six-volume industry series, dated 1929 (Nankai) or 1930 (Sohu). It is reprinted in 《方显廷文存》 (Nankai UP, 2019), so it is also obtainable in print. I could NOT find a Wikimedia Commons file with this title. Searches restricted to commons.wikimedia.org returned only unrelated NLC scans, and direct fetch of Commons failed in this environment. The record should name the author and date, and the Commons URL still needs to be supplied by a human. Source: 方显廷回忆在南开大学经济研究所的事业与生活 (Fang Xianting's recollections of the Nankai Institute of Economics), Nankai University, 1929 or 1930 (sources differ). Found at: https://nkie.nankai.edu.cn/2017/0502/c11716a121465/page.htm Also: https://m.sohu.com/a/875737930_121123801/ · https://weread.qq.com/web/bookDetail/160323f0811e344a9g0170ab · https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Library_back_up_project/file_list/NLC/%E6%B0%91%E5%9C%8B%E6%96%87%E7%8D%BB/01