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 . snails,which appear to make no headway. Anyone who would representpatience and had no other model, could use one of the chintz paintersof Palicol. In 1742, Father Coeurdoux, a Jesuit missionary resident atPondicherry, wrote home to Europe: The painter or artist, having prepared his design upon paper,next has to transfe
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 . snails,which appear to make no headway. Anyone who would representpatience and had no other model, could use one of the chintz paintersof Palicol. In 1742, Father Coeurdoux, a Jesuit missionary resident atPondicherry, wrote home to Europe: The painter or artist, having prepared his design upon paper,next has to transfer it on to the cloth. He begins by pricking the mainoutlines of the design with a fine needle, then lays his paper on thecloth and passes over it a pad containing charcoal powder which, pene-trating through the pricked holes, by this means transfers the mainfeatures of the design on to the cloth. He then continues as follows(abbreviated) : (1) Black. First, black made from iron filings is pencilled inover the charcoal tracing and made to set fast with boiling water. (2) Blue. Next a wax resist is painted over the parts where bluesor greens are not to appear and the cloth is sent to the indigo dyer. (3) Red. Next a wax resist is pencilled in where white tracery is to 330. Plate XII—HAND-PAINTED COTTON OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FROM INDIA, USED FOR COVERING WAULS AND CEILINGS From the Brooklyn Museum collection 331 DECORATIVE TEXTILES appear over reds, pinks or lilacs; and red, pink and lilac mordantsare applied by painting or pencilling in the manner described by Plinyseventeen hundred years before. The places on the cloth for the redsare painted with a stronger emulsion of alum than the places for thepinks, whilst the violets have a mixture of alum and iron liquor. Thenthe red dye pot develops the reds just as it did in the days of Pliny.(4) Yellow. Finally, the yellow is applied direct, being painted overthe places where yellow is required, and also where the blue is to bet
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