title: Arts and Crafts Rugs for Craftsman Interiors: The Crab Tree Farm Collection
author: David Cathers
description: [O]ffbeat and generously informative book.few are likely to have embraced both the range of design influences and the depths of technical detail that are on display here, in the books descriptions and illustrations of the collection of rugs it documents.<br /> - <strong><em>American Bungalow Magazine</em></strong><br /><br />[T]he carpets used in the period settings have finally been given their due respect.Well written chapters are highlighted by exquisite examples illustrating a wide variety of textiles with not only the designers and weavers of the carpets identified, but paragraphs exploring the origins of the designs are included as well.[A]n asset for Arts and Crafts collectors as it provides important scholarship relating to the period.<br /> - <strong><em>Antiques and The Arts Weekly</em></strong><br /><br />[O]utstandingly attractive.... [A]lso contains much illuminating scholarship.<br /> - <strong><em>The Journal of William Morries Studies</em></strong>
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  ## Lee Child
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my readers,  
  
  
  with my grateful thanks.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  EVENTUALLY THEY PUT Reacher in a car and drove him to a motel a mile away,
  where the night clerk gave him a room, which had all the features Reacher
  expected, because he had seen such rooms a thousand times before. There was a
  raucous through-the-wall heater, which would be too noisy to sleep with, which
  would save the owner money on electricity. There were low-watt bulbs in all
  the fixtures, likewise. There was a low-pile carpet that after cleaning would
  dry in hours, so the room could rent again the same day. Not that the carpet
  would be cleaned often. It was dark and patterned and ideal for concealing
  stains. As was the bedspread. No doubt the shower would be weak and strangled,
  and the towels thin, and the soap small, and the shampoo cheap. The furniture
  was made of wood, all dark and bru