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 . vy-looking. It is the sort of fringe thatwould naturally be most popular in a Baroque period. The most important single word in the world of trimmings isgimp. Gimp cord is the dominant feature of the majority of uphol-stery and drapery trimmings, which without it would lack has the same initial meaning as the
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 . vy-looking. It is the sort of fringe thatwould naturally be most popular in a Baroque period. The most important single word in the world of trimmings isgimp. Gimp cord is the dominant feature of the majority of uphol-stery and drapery trimmings, which without it would lack has the same initial meaning as the French guipure, which isa cord whipped (guipe) or twist-covered with silk. But gimp hasintroduced bewilderment into the minds of many by broadening itsmeaning from the twist-covered cords to the ribbons and galloonsmade by twisting and braiding and sewing and crocheting and weav-ing them together. Galloons are apt to be made of metal, and theword suggests military costume trimmings even when it falls fromupholstery lips. Braid suggests the process of braiding or pleating,though often used for woven ribbons and tapes whose textureresembles that of braid. Very wide gimp braids are often calledborders. The most important machines in a trimming factory are the spin- ?
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