. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. (1) A TfMicrs tM])cstrv in [mper. (.) Isyclif .il the dcsiiiiicd li\ l)M\i(l tin- N;ii>olci>n Plate III- I AMOLS IICTIKF, IAlERSPrinted in Paris from the ancient liand lilocks ?M;i WALL PAPERS walls of a room as temporary, but never as permanent, decorations. Chinamen are born brush in hand and wri
. Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers. (1) A TfMicrs tM])cstrv in [mper. (.) Isyclif .il the dcsiiiiicd li\ l)M\i(l tin- N;ii>olci>n Plate III- I AMOLS IICTIKF, IAlERSPrinted in Paris from the ancient liand lilocks ?M;i WALL PAPERS walls of a room as temporary, but never as permanent, decorations. Chinamen are born brush in hand and write, not with a pen, butwith a brush. The brush is the national method of expression inChina and every Celestial takes his brush in hand just as recklessly aswe take the pen. Consequently, painting is so connnon in Chinathat every family of any position has hundreds of rolls of paintings,which are opened about as often as we open the books in om- book-cases. The monotony of seeing the same pictures hanging on thesame walls week in and week out, year after year, woidd shrivel theartistic souls of those whose familiarity with the brush keeps themfrom slavish adoration of the images that it produces. AVall paper as wall paper is a European development of theeighteenth century, started by the European vogue
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