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 . (8) A Rococo paper reproducedfrom an old English paperin the house of Stephen , East Danvers, Massa-chusetts, in 1858. (9) Louis XV Shepherdess, repro-duced from paper hung in theold Livingston Manor House atCatskill, New York, over 75years ago Plate XX—AMERICAN WALL PAPER PATTERNS 390 WALL PAPERS manufacture
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 . (8) A Rococo paper reproducedfrom an old English paperin the house of Stephen , East Danvers, Massa-chusetts, in 1858. (9) Louis XV Shepherdess, repro-duced from paper hung in theold Livingston Manor House atCatskill, New York, over 75years ago Plate XX—AMERICAN WALL PAPER PATTERNS 390 WALL PAPERS manufacture of picture friezes, many of which are in every wayadmirable and should be better known than they are. Block printing,which is done entirely by hand, is intermediate in rapidity and effectbetween brush work and roller work. The blocks are of wood andfrom 18 to 21 inches square. The design is carved in relief on thesurface, sharp lines being produced by copper ribbon and dots bycopper pins driven into the wood. There is a separate set of blocksfor each colour of the design, and each colour is separately printedand the roll allowed to dry before the next colour is applied. Whilethe rollers used in the machine printing of chintz and cretonnes areof copper with the pattern incised, the rollers used in the machineprinting of wall paper are of wood with the pattern in relief. Theoutlines are formed by
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