. 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. Heading iriMii tnp: Xos. 1, 3, J, 7 Reading from top: Nos. 2, i, 6, 8 Plate XI—FRINGES FROM THE MORAXT COLLECTION 412 DRAPERY AND UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS selves, who like them long and slender and cut; but they do mostadmirably fit into Eurojieanised Chinoiserie of the type that dom-inated France and England in the eighte
. 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. Heading iriMii tnp: Xos. 1, 3, J, 7 Reading from top: Nos. 2, i, 6, 8 Plate XI—FRINGES FROM THE MORAXT COLLECTION 412 DRAPERY AND UPHOLSTERY TRIMMINGS selves, who like them long and slender and cut; but they do mostadmirably fit into Eurojieanised Chinoiserie of the type that dom-inated France and England in the eighteenth century. The shape ofthis tassel is based on the keynote of Chinese architecture, the roof,derived from the ancient square tents with centre and corner posts,which in China jireceded more nearly permanent buildings of woodand tiles. The oval pendants complete this idea admirably. The other interior on Plate XII, built around an ancient ironbed, and rhyming with Louis XV rather than Louis XVI, is freefrom Chinese suggestion but trimmed with equal completeness. Theembroidered bell pull and its tassel are ancient, though they agitatethe lover of modern electric candles; and the painted satin that formsthe ground of the bed draperies is also ancient; but the other fab
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