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 . uze-net ground. A very delightful fabric suggestive of the ancient gold damasksis shown on Plate II, with coarse gold wefts tied loosely down upona plain blue jaspe cotton ground. The contrast between the hori-zontal gold wefts and the fine vertical warp threads of the ground ispronounced, but the colour contrast is so
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 . uze-net ground. A very delightful fabric suggestive of the ancient gold damasksis shown on Plate II, with coarse gold wefts tied loosely down upona plain blue jaspe cotton ground. The contrast between the hori-zontal gold wefts and the fine vertical warp threads of the ground ispronounced, but the colour contrast is softened not only by the grey-ness of the jaspe surface, and the blue that shines through the goldwefts from beneath, but also by the dulness of the gold, which con-sists of coffee-coloured strips of thin, tough paper gilded on one sideand each twisted into thread after the fashion of the Japanese. Plate III is a cotton-backed damask, that is to say, a red and 73 tm*mmmmmmrmmmmm«mm m mm * «*>«§« «* «• #• ** * mmmm m m mmmm m m m m m * mm« • • • • <?•?»»• •» • • • * • m m mm m m m m m m m m ma mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm* m « tmlk m i to » « • • ••<».%• mSfa%*m^*gm* i * ». * « • • * » » » » * «* * • * m mmm mm. ? .*» *l* *i» «> i»*-t<.-S==: jrrtSMMW •»»~«»u*-,«»:«» «*»<<
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