. 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. Ilatr \ii .\i(ii)\ \i \( r\!s i\ nil, ;{i>s WALL PAPERS small figures representing arts and erafts, thirteen slieets with heightof eight feet ten inches and combined width of thirty-seven feet. In1781 a China wall ])aper, glazed, blue ground, made for a roomeighteen feet
. 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. Ilatr \ii .\i(ii)\ \i \( r\!s i\ nil, ;{i>s WALL PAPERS small figures representing arts and erafts, thirteen slieets with heightof eight feet ten inches and combined width of thirty-seven feet. In1781 a China wall ])aper, glazed, blue ground, made for a roomeighteen feet stinare, with gilt moulding. THP: The most interesting exhibition e\er made of ancient wall paperswas by the late Felix FoUot at the Paris Exposition of 1900. Thewriter was fortunate enough to have lent him a cojn* of the ])rivatelyjn-inted little book jn-epared by M. Follot with the title Papierspeints, a Iexjjosition universelle internationale de 1900. At thisjjoint it is important to note that the French name for wall 2)apers isstill papiers (painted 2)apers), inherited from the })eriod whenthey actually were painted. M. Follot had spent forty years in getting together his collec-tion, and the honour of organising the exhibition was only
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