. 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. Iliite \1II- AiiicriciiM ri-|)rci(liK-tiii]i cit Friiiili llallli^^k Ilatc IX—C?l?(>^fi;r;liIl iiKide in .\iiicric-,i 10 DAMASKS. BROCADES AND VELVETS line effects to suggest ribs running the way of the wefts. Plate XX,though sometimes called a silk tapestry, is properly classed withbrocades. It has a Pers
. 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. Iliite \1II- AiiicriciiM ri-|)rci(liK-tiii]i cit Friiiili llallli^^k Ilatc IX—C?l?(>^fi;r;liIl iiKide in .\iiicric-,i 10 DAMASKS. BROCADES AND VELVETS line effects to suggest ribs running the way of the wefts. Plate XX,though sometimes called a silk tapestry, is properly classed withbrocades. It has a Persian pattern of peacocks, butterflies andcypress trees, richly expressed in polychrome weft floats on a cottonground. Plate VI is a satin damask with grosgrain figures that swellin high relief because loom finished—that is. left as they comefrom the loom, without ha\ing their spirit crushed by rollers thatmake them level with the ground of the damask. Plate XIII is abrocade with pattern unusually large. Plate XII is a Louis XVIbrocade of a type that is both excellent and popular. Plate XIXis an Adam armitre, with typical vase and small figures, executedin warp floats on grosgrain groimd. THE GROWING OF SILK Silk, wool, linen and cotton are the princijial food for
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