. 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. decreases, instead of increasing, in beauty. The jacquard imita-tions look best when mounted on highly varnished or polished woodenframes; they do not look well against weathered oak, or natural oak,or any Ijackground that has character in its texture. Their chiefmission, it seems to me, is by contrast to emphasise the
. 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. decreases, instead of increasing, in beauty. The jacquard imita-tions look best when mounted on highly varnished or polished woodenframes; they do not look well against weathered oak, or natural oak,or any Ijackground that has character in its texture. Their chiefmission, it seems to me, is by contrast to emphasise the virtues ofreal tapestry, and make the name familiar. Real tapestry is not cheap. The cheapest that I know of in theAmerican market retailed at six dollars a s(juare foot before the was designed by an American maker to meet the eomjjetition of theclieaper grades imported from Aubusson, and as the situation necessi-tates, has been simplified to the utmost, witli only ten ribs to the inch,and verdm-e pattern composed for ease of weaving. A delightfid tex-ture is attained, and as tlie tapestry costs less even than the importeddouble icarj) shuttle tajiestries, one of which is illustrated on Plate Vof Chai^ter XII, it should supplant them for use on furniture, because. Plate I—TAPESTRY CHAIK BACK, RICH WITH GOLD Made under my own direction tci illustrate tlie practicability of weaving today witli RcMiiissancc technique 307
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