File:Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and (14783465335).jpg

Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt (find matches)
Title: Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
Plate III—CHENILLE AXMINSTER MADE IN AMERICATo match a large Kermanshah rug
Text Appearing After Image:
Plate IV—AMERICAN CHENILLE AXMINSTERPlain centre with Elizabethan border 164 CARPETS AND RUGS foreign powers, to have been sold to Judge Jasper Yates of Lan-caster, Pa., whose great-granddaughter presented it to the associa-tion in 1897. It is typically Empire and ugly in style, and consistsof 27-inch widths of moquette veloute (wilton) sewed together toform a rug that on a dark green ground sprinkled with stars carriesa huge centre medallion bearing the American eagle. The texture isvery velvety and agreeable, and age has worn the pile down mostpleasingly. Across each end is an eight-inch strip to match, evidentlymade at a later date, and of inferior material and dye. In weaving brussels the worsted warp has as many splits asthere are points across the fabric, and is divided into as many hori-zontal layers (from 2 to 6 but commonly 5) as there are frames atthe end of the loom, each frame carrying bobbins of a single colour.In each split, one thread, and only one, is raised by the j

Note About Images