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 . .Bulger. If the sampler habit were revived, it would do more forthe art of embroidery than can in any other way be accomplished. India (Plates XXXII and XXXV) has long been famous forthe silk and cotton embroideries that are part of the costume of almostevery native. The most famous are those of Kashmir. Excellent inde
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 . .Bulger. If the sampler habit were revived, it would do more forthe art of embroidery than can in any other way be accomplished. India (Plates XXXII and XXXV) has long been famous forthe silk and cotton embroideries that are part of the costume of almostevery native. The most famous are those of Kashmir. Excellent indesign and workmanship are the phulkaries from the Punjab andthe Hazara frontier. The colours of the Cutch phulkaries are particu-larly attractive. The tinsel embroidered stuffs of Delhi, Agra andMadras are used for gowns, draperies, bed and table covers, cushionand pillow covers. Most Cashmere (Kashmir) shawls are embroid-eries in wool. Rugs richly embroidered with gold and silver aremade at Benares and Murshidabad. The Chinese (Plate XXXVI) are perhaps the most labouriousand elaborate hand embroiderers, principally in silk combined withgold and silver tinsel. Sometimes the figures of men, horses anddragons are outlined in gold cord and filled up with shaded silk. The 133. Plate XXXIV-SIXTEENTH CENTURY EMBROIDERED PERSIAN COVER1 la * Patterned like a rug of the period
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