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 . Plate XVI—On the left, reticella needle lace; on the right, schiffleimitation reticella lace. Plate XVII—On the left, Cluny venise lace; on the right,Russian drawnwork EXAMPLES OF REAL LACE MOTIFS98 LACES was able to make figured net, and by 1777 net witb square meshesthat were fast. The second lace machine is the warp
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 . Plate XVI—On the left, reticella needle lace; on the right, schiffleimitation reticella lace. Plate XVII—On the left, Cluny venise lace; on the right,Russian drawnwork EXAMPLES OF REAL LACE MOTIFS98 LACES was able to make figured net, and by 1777 net witb square meshesthat were fast. The second lace machine is the warp frame, so calledbecause for each warp thread there was an individual needle whichlooped the thread first to the right and then to the left. By 1795 thismachine produced plain net and soon afterwards figured net in analmost endless variety of meshes and patterns. The third lace machine,brought to perfection by continued improvements during the pastcentury, is the so-called Leavers machine, originated by John Heath-coat (1809) and John Leavers (1813). The application to theLeavers machine of the jacquard attachment (see Development ofthe Loom in Chapter I) vastly increased the range and intricacy ofpatterns possible, and the operation by water and later by steam andelectric power vastly increased the speed and quantity produced. Inthe Leavers machine warp thread
Size: 1924px × 1299px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, booksubjectdecorationandornament, booksubjectla
