. 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. It (8) A Rococo i)aper rei)roduceilfrom an old English paperin the house of Stephen , East Danvers, Massa-chusetts, in 1858. (!•) Louis X\ Shepherdess, repro-duced from paper hung in theold Livingston Manor House atCatskill, New York, over 75years ago Plate XX—AMERICAN WALL PAPER PATTERNS 390 WALL PAPERS manuf
. 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. It (8) A Rococo i)aper rei)roduceilfrom an old English paperin the house of Stephen , East Danvers, Massa-chusetts, in 1858. (!•) Louis X\ Shepherdess, repro-duced from paper hung in theold Livingston Manor House atCatskill, New York, over 75years ago Plate XX—AMERICAN WALL PAPER PATTERNS 390 WALL PAPERS manufacture of ])icturt friezes, many of which are in every wayachiiirahle and should he hetter known than they are. Block printing,which is done entirely hy hand, is intermediate in rapidity and effectbetween brush work and roller work. The blocks are of wood andfrom 18 to 21 inches s(|uare. The design is carved in relief on thesurface, sharp lines being 2:)r()diiced by copper ribbon and dots bycopper pins driven into the wood. There is a separate set of blocksfor each colour of the design, and each colom- is separately printedand the roll allowed to dry before the next colour is ap])lie(l. AVhilethe rollers used in the machine printing of chintz and cretonnes areof copper with the jiattern incised, the rollers used in the machineprinting of wall |)a})er are of wood with the pattern in relief. Theoutli
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