. 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. ous but the constituentmaterials (carl)on, hydrogen and oxygen) are always the same andin the same proportions. Linen and cotton rags consist of such fibresfrom which the inqjurities are easily eliminated, but wood, straw andesparto re(|uire elaborate chemical treatment with great heat. Untilthe middle of the nineteent
. 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. ous but the constituentmaterials (carl)on, hydrogen and oxygen) are always the same andin the same proportions. Linen and cotton rags consist of such fibresfrom which the inqjurities are easily eliminated, but wood, straw andesparto re(|uire elaborate chemical treatment with great heat. Untilthe middle of the nineteentii century most European paper was madeof rags. THE ORIGIN OF WALL PAPERS While wall papers are of Chinese origin, the Chinese themselvesnever used them as wall papers, and only recently have begun, likethe Hindoos, to imitate a fashion set by Europeans. Plate I, in colour,entitled The Origin of Wall Paper, reproduces not a Chinese wallpaper but a Chinese painting. In otiier words, the origin of JCiuropeanwall papers is to l)e sought in the Chinese paintings on paper whichwere brought to Europe in considerable quantities in the seventeenthcentury. Such paintings, instead of being framed in the Europeanfashion, are mounted by the Chinese on rollers and hung around the 361. (1) A TfMicrs tM])cstrv in [mper
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