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Title: The decorative periods
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Clifford & Lawton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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darneck, coarse, taking its name from Dorncck. the Dutchfor Tournay. Damask, first made in Damascus in such a way that what is not satinon one side shows satin on the other side. Perpetuana (1650), a very durable woolen. Green and red paly is the heraldic term for alternate stripes of thesecolors. Camblet was a woolen, hair or silk twill, sometimes waved or watered. Tabby, a kind of coarse watered taffeta. Seersucker, a thin ridged and puckered material. At the outbreak of the Revolution the Georgian style hadfully developed, and the Colonial had adopted much of theGeorgian character. Rich furniture was much in use, and sogreat was the display that John Adams, who was always opposedto ostentation, wrote : John Lowell at Newburyport had builthimself a house like the palace of a nobleman and lived in greatsplendor. In the South, the centres of fashion were Annapolis,Williamsburg and Charlestown. The presence of monied Eng-lishmen and officers, with their retinue of servants and their X
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ADAM AND SHERATON CHARAGTERISTICS. TABLE TOPS The Decorativ^e Periods 2/9 families, brought fashion and gaiety and rich and costly furnish-ings to America. To-day the revival of the early or late Colonial style mustbe taken with that revision which always accompanies a Renais-sance movement. The modern home is so differently constructedthat we cannot pretend to follow the old models, v.hen parlor,bedroom and dining-room were frequently one of the same apart-ment. Between 1600 and 1650 a parlor was defined as a roomto sup or dine in, and at this period The Hall was the prin-cipal room of a house, and here was the guests bed, the hugefireplace and the dining-table. Until about 1G50 the hall was theshowroom, and old inventories continually refer to this room andits furnishings to indicate its character as above defined. Beginning with 1650 the Colonists built separate rooms, andthe hall gradually became, as it is to-day, an entrance roommerely.

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