Pugs on Rugs

Pugs on Rugs

by Jack Russell
Pugs on Rugs

Pugs on Rugs

by Jack Russell

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Overview

What is it that makes pugs so lovable? Is it their doleful eyes? Their down-turned mouths? Furrowed brows? While they may look sad, they’ve certainly found their place in our homes and our hearts. Now the adorable creatures have a new home, sitting on rugs in 43 amusing photographs! What could be cuter?

Pugs on Rugs celebrates different pugs on different rugs. The dog might be walking, sitting, or sleeping and the rug could be Persian, Aztec, or oriental, but the image is guaranteed to be cute and funny!

People have been obsessed with pugs for centuries and each of this small book’s spreads features a photograph (or montage) alongside an amusing caption and a fascinating fact about the history and characteristics of this unique breed.

Did you know that the first pugs were brought from China to Europe to serve as guard dogs?

Or that a famous pug named Pompey once saved a Dutch prince from assassination?

Have you heard about the eighteenth-century German secret society dedicated to the pug in which new members initiated themselves by wearing a collar, scratching at the door, and kissing the rear end of a giant porcelain pug?

Yes indeed, pug lovers are an interesting breed and this volume is sure to get them laughing with delight.

From bullish to pitiful, Pugs on Rugs is a fantastically fun book featuring some of the snuggliest pugs you’ve ever seen.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780594924418
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 03/28/2017
Pages: 96
Sales rank: 648,211
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

JACK RUSSELL is an Irish Setter rivaled only by Virginia Woof in for prominence in the growing movement of modernist dog photography.

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Pugs on Rugs


By Jack Russell

St. Martin's Press

Copyright © 2016 Amber Books Ltd.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-250-11188-3


CHAPTER 1

Try Aisle K-9

"Funny how different things look with your glasses on. I'd always thought shopping carts were much bigger than me."

Rug Fact: An art deco, American hooked rug from about 1920.

Pug Fact: In 17th-century England, "pug" was the nickname for both a dog and a monkey.


Puggy Pinkmentation

"I know what you're thinking: the pink clashes with the rug, doesn't it?"

Rug Fact: An American hooked rug from around 1900. Originating in the northeastern United States and Canada, hooked rugs were first made from scraps of material and even burlap sacks.

Pug Fact: A pug can run from 3 to 5 miles per hour.


Pugkin Pie

"Pugs aren't just for Christmas. They're for Halloween, too."

Rug Fact: An American ingrain rug from around 1920. Ingrains are flat, reversible rugs with no pile.

Pug Fact: Pugs sleep for about 14 hours a day.


Weight Watching

"The wheels seem to have come off your train set. Come to think of it, aren't you a bit old to have toy trains?"

Rug Fact: An early 20th-century, French, art deco rug, a style characterized by its geometric patterns.

Pug Fact: Napoleon Bonaparte's wife, Josephine, had a pug called Fortune. She used it to send secret messages to her husband. Unfortunately, fortune didn't favor Fortune, and, one day, it had a fatal encounter with the chef's bulldog.


Party Poocher

"Honestly, I'm as happy as a dog with two tails. I just don't yap on about it."

Rug Fact: A Chinese art deco rug from the early 20th century.

Pug Fact: During the Tang Dynasty in China (618–907 CE), pugs were sent as state gifts to Japan and Korea.


A Bird? A Plane? No, Superpug!

"So you think Batman, Spider-Man, and Ant-Man are perfectly reasonable, but a superhero pug is weird?"

Rug Fact: A 1920s American rag rug. Originally, many were made from scraps of fabric, but rag rugs have become admired examples of American design.

Pug Fact: Pugs were imported into the United States in the 19th century. The American Kennel Club in 1885 first recognized pugs as a distinct breed.


Mother of Pearl!

"Diamonds are a girl's best friend, but someone seems to think cheap beads are a pug's. You know, I fear for their rug."

Rug Fact: The flowing lines and organic nature of an American, hooked, art nouveau rug from the 1920s.

Pug Fact:Zhu, meaning "Pearl," is a popular name for a pug in China.


Unyappy Pug

"This looks more like stepping-stones than a nice comfy rug!"

Rug Fact: A striking, mid-20th century, Navajo Kilim rug that uses three colors and three rectangular figures to create the impression of a cube. Repeated, the design forms a stack.

Pug Fact: Pugs are not very good swimmers because of their short and stout body.


The Queen's Pug

"If I keep this scarf on, Her Royal Highness won't know I'm not a corgi."

Rug Fact: An English needlepoint rug from the late 19th century. With its medallions and fleur-de-lis in each petal, the neo-medieval design shows the influence of the English Arts and Craft Movement.

Pug Fact: Queen Victoria bred pugs, encouraging their popularity in 19th-century Britain.


Pug Daddy

"What do you think I'm listening to: Snoop Dog or Kate Bush's Hounds of Love?"

Rug Fact: A Swedish rya from the middle of the 20th century. Rya, which simply means "rug" in Swedish, has a long, dense pile. They were inspired by Turkish bedding rugs.

Pug Fact: Pugs catch colds easily. They are quickly stressed by hot or cold weather because they cannot regulate their body temperature very well.


Dicing with Dogs

"Great, now even the rug's got worms. Just look at that border."

Rug Fact: An English William Morris rug from the turn of the 20th century. The design consists of a tangle of Celtic knots featuring serpents' heads.

Pug Fact: Pugs are not good gamblers.


On the Catwalk

"Well, Huckleberry Finn once dressed as a girl, and he's a national hero."

Rug Fact: It may look Persian in style, but this is an American chenille rug. Chenille is the French word for "caterpillar," as the yarn resembles caterpillar fur.

Pug Fact: Pugs were dressed in colorful pantaloons when traveling in the carriages of Italian aristocrats.


Shaggy Dog Story

"I get the itchy feeling that this coat wasn't the only thing I picked up at the flea market."

Rug Fact: A hand-knotted Karabagh rug from the southern Caucasus. Karabagh carpets often have geometrical patterns, but they can also be inspired by organic and floral motifs from Iran. This one shows strawberries on a tree of life.

Pug Fact: It is believed that the pug was introduced to Europe from Asia by the Dutch East India Company.


Pugnacious

"Well, you'd look grumpy, too, if someone had put your sports bra on backward."

Rug Fact: A hand-hooked, American rug with a country-cottage ceiling design. Originating in the 1840s, these functional, coarse rugs were first made out of necessity. As interest in American folk art has grown, they have become sought after.

Pug Fact: The aristocrat Lady Anna Brassey is credited with making black pugs fashionable in Britain after she brought some back from China in 1886.


Lapdogs of Luxury

The lavish wedding of Prince Pug and Princess Puggette. They're cousins.

Rug Fact: Made in Pakistan, this rug features the detailed floral motifs and precise Herati pattern characteristic of the Sultanabad, now Arak, region.

Pug Fact: It has been claimed that the pug became the official dog of the House of Orange in the Netherlands in the 16th century after William the Silent's pug Pompey saved his life by alerting him that assassins were approaching.


In Stitches

"You want me to turn the yarn into a rug like this? OK, can someone get me Rumpelstiltskin's number?"

Rug Fact: A Perpedil rug from Perpedil in the Dagestan region of the Caucasus. Perpedil rugs are characterized by their use of ram's horn motifs.

Pug Fact: Pugs come in four colors: apricot, fawn, black, and, more uncommonly, silver.


Smug Pugs

"Stare at this rug long enough, and you'd see double."

Rug Fact: With fine local wool, master weavers, and excellent designs, the Persian city of Kerman built a reputation for its carpets by the 18th century. Some people consider Kerman carpets to be the best.

Pug Fact: Pug puppies are called "puglets."


Pug de Deux

"I'm not a diva, I'm a prima ballerina."

Rug Fact: A Spanish Alcaraz rug from the latter part of the 16th century. After Christians retook the area now known as Spain and Portugal from the Moors at the end of the 15th century, Spanish rugmakers developed a more European style. In this rug, you can see acanthus leaves in the center and dragon motifs around the border.

Pug Fact: Although there have been all-male performances of the ballet Swan Lake, there has yet to be an all-pug version.


Won't Travel by Greyhound

"This is a flying carpet, right? Because I'm trying to get to Chihuahua."

Rug Fact: A Portuguese Alpujarra rug from the beginning of the 20th century. It features a popular, Portuguese pomegranate symbol.

Pug Fact: Are you single and love pugs? There are now dating events where you can meet other pug lovers. Even if the date doesn't work out, at least you get to meet some lovely pugs.


(Continues...)

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