About felt rugs

In color felts are gray, brown, or white. The last named are woven at Khotan. No dye is used ; the hue is that of the hair of the animal, or the composite hue resulting from the mixture of the hair of different animals.

The felts have no seams, and are from one to four inches thick. Although this material is of far more ancient date than the days of St. Clement, a legend connects his name with the discovery of felt. The tra­dition is that while on a pilgrimage the Saint, having put a wad of carded wool into his shoes to protect his feet from blisters, found at the end of his journey that the pressure and moisture had converted the wool into felt.