. 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. ing of the bobbin through the shed. The tliird great stej) was the substitution for treadles of a drarcbojj (hence the term dratv loom) who was mounted on a platformabove the warp, where he pulled cords or leashes that raised or loweredthe warp threads as the pattern re(iuired. vastly increasing the pos-sible complexit
. 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. ing of the bobbin through the shed. The tliird great stej) was the substitution for treadles of a drarcbojj (hence the term dratv loom) who was mounted on a platformabove the warp, where he pulled cords or leashes that raised or loweredthe warp threads as the pattern re(iuired. vastly increasing the pos-sible complexities of weave. The draw loom, invented and devel-oped by the Chinese to meet the exigencies of weaving the exquisitelyfine threads of silk, fii-st made possible and practicable the productionof damasks, brocades and velvets. The fourth great step was the invention of the .Tac(|uard attach-ment in the time of Xapoleon. This attachment was merely amechanical contrivance, but it supplanted the draw boy. just as thedraw boy had supplanted treadles, and just as treadles had sup-planted the weavers left hand. It vastly increased the speed andaeeiuacy of weaving, and so lessened the cost of producing intricatepatterns that ever since then intricate patterns have been available 2. Plate I—DAMASK MADE IX AMERICA From nil nid Italinii orioinal DECORATIVE TEXTILES for the least expensive purposes, provided the (juantity used is suf-ficiently large. Once the pattern is punched on a series of Jacquardcards, and the loom is mounted, it is just like playing a pianola orworking a hand organ. Kepetition is easy and costs little. Diligenceis more important than intelligence, and the weaver need not havethe slightest art knowledge or feeling. The /?//// great step was the application of jxirccr (water, steamor electricity) to do the work of both draw boy and weaver. Tliisgreatly increased speed, while relieving the weaver of most of hismanual laboiu, and setting him free to superintend the opera
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