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 . H, — A- 4-» < E X c Ph 4-i ™, <U S- £ o Eh a o m 4-J ?J W en en tj < . H 4J H ID •~* a C o 5 & ^ o X DRAPERY AND UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS ning alley and the hand looms, the former for making gimp cords,the latter for making gimp braids. In weaving some of the morecomplicated gimps, the jacquard attachment is used.
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 . H, — A- 4-» < E X c Ph 4-i ™, <U S- £ o Eh a o m 4-J ?J W en en tj < . H 4J H ID •~* a C o 5 & ^ o X DRAPERY AND UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS ning alley and the hand looms, the former for making gimp cords,the latter for making gimp braids. In weaving some of the morecomplicated gimps, the jacquard attachment is used. Generally, how-ever, treadles lift and depress the slender silk warps which bind andcover the cords, and which sometimes are looped over wires to formcut or uncut velvet figures. The coarse cords of the weft are usuallypassed back and forth by hand in a small shuttle. In making fringedgimps the weft cords loop over a hook while they are being bound bythe warps into the heading. About both the loom and the all-handprocesses employed in a trimming factory, there is an infinite varietywhich is fascinating and even bewildering. The possibilities seemendless. Endless also are the uses of gimps, not only of the cheap andinsignificant and often perishabl
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