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 . Plate XXIV Plate XXV MODERN AMERICAN JACQUARD WEAVES 81 DECORATIVE TEXTILES (but in the finest materials and the most intricate and exquisite hand-loom work) that is illustrated in many of the cheaper and simplerfabrics treated of in this chapter (notably that of Plate II), and is anobject lesson in the adaptation of a
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 . Plate XXIV Plate XXV MODERN AMERICAN JACQUARD WEAVES 81 DECORATIVE TEXTILES (but in the finest materials and the most intricate and exquisite hand-loom work) that is illustrated in many of the cheaper and simplerfabrics treated of in this chapter (notably that of Plate II), and is anobject lesson in the adaptation of ancient ideas effectively to modernconditions. Upon such adaptations, and upon the original ideasdeveloped with them as a background, depends the textile future ofthis country. Credit for illustrations: Plates I, X, XI, the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Plates VI,VII, VIII, IX, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVIII, XXI, XXII, XXIV, Plates D 3,E 1 and H, the Orinoka Mills; Plate XX, Collins & Aikman; Plates XIX, XXIII, XXV,Stead & Miller. CHAPTER V LACES USE, ORIGIN, NAME AND DEVELOPMENT; MACHINE LACESAND LACE CURTAINS One of the modern distinguishing marks of civilisation is theuse of laces for residential and personal adornment. Fifty years agolace curtains were a luxury
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