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 . goods and hisenterprise, ennobled him and raised his establishment to Manufac-ture Royale. (See the signature of the fabric illustrated on PlateXV, 580 being the number of the pattern; Les Colombes, theDoves, the name of the pattern; and P. N. G. the man who did theactual printing.) From that time on, Jouy prints were
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 . goods and hisenterprise, ennobled him and raised his establishment to Manufac-ture Royale. (See the signature of the fabric illustrated on PlateXV, 580 being the number of the pattern; Les Colombes, theDoves, the name of the pattern; and P. N. G. the man who did theactual printing.) From that time on, Jouy prints were the vogue not only at courtand in the palaces of the nobles, but also in the houses of the richmiddle class. The sales and the profits were immense. The numberof employees reached 1,500. Oberkampf gave them their own houses,hospitals and old age pensions, and looked after their interests inevery way. Constantly the quality of the product improved and soonoutclassed the German, Alsatian and English prints. Oberkampfshrank from no expense to improve his processes. He sent agentseverywhere, even to the Orient, in order to discover the secrets of thebrilliant colours of India and Persia. In 1806 he received a goldmedal at the Paris Exposition. 337 , ... 7r ^ *i* r#«*rj 4#^;. Plate XVI—JOUY COPPER PRINT IN RED Made about 1785, and signed Manufacture Royale de S. M. P. Oberkampf, picturing Oberkampfs factory, together with the processes of plate and roller printing *^m^
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