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 . HWS ?T V** i*; Vt *•** cv^&x W *•. enW o i-lW o Q HJ« en en en < P O XX Ph LACES muslin appliques filling the ground of the figures. The Irish pointshave openwork spiders in addition to the muslin appliques. Besidesthese four varieties there are numerous etamine, double net andcoloured novelties, many of them in arc
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 . HWS ?T V** i*; Vt *•** cv^&x W *•. enW o i-lW o Q HJ« en en en < P O XX Ph LACES muslin appliques filling the ground of the figures. The Irish pointshave openwork spiders in addition to the muslin appliques. Besidesthese four varieties there are numerous etamine, double net andcoloured novelties, many of them in architectural and period designs. (4) Madras and Other Gauze and Fancy Weaves.—Madeon a gauze loom with openwork effects. In gauze weave (Plate H ofChapter IV) the warps twist in pairs around the wefts, making pos-sible the production of extremely lacy effects. Madras has brochefigures with the floats trimmed off. Polychrome madras has beensucceeded in popularity by the creams and ecrus. Crete is heavierthan madras and has an etamine instead of a gauze ground. Alsothe cut side is the right side of madras but the wrong side of crete. (5) Novelty Lace Curtains.—A general name for all kindsof effects produced without the use of real lace, by the application andinsertion of nottingham and other machine lace
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