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 . hipand travel, would employ gimps and braids and fringes effectively toaccentuate the outlines of damask wall panels, silk covers and spreads,valances and side curtains. But he has done more than this; withoutlosing any of the desired line and pattern effects, he has so composedthe colours of his trimmings, and so cont
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 . hipand travel, would employ gimps and braids and fringes effectively toaccentuate the outlines of damask wall panels, silk covers and spreads,valances and side curtains. But he has done more than this; withoutlosing any of the desired line and pattern effects, he has so composedthe colours of his trimmings, and so contrasted and blended them withthe colours of the surfaces they adorn, that the result is colour harmonyas vivacious as it is complete. Let those who will lean on the chartsfathered or grandfathered by Chevreul; Mr. Chalfin has proved inthe actual materials that for matching colours most of the so-calledchromatic laws end where good taste begins. Amongst the numerous trimmings in the Louis XVI Chineseroom illustrated on Plate XII, the two varieties of Chinese tassels areprominent. These two tassels, one shaped over a plaster, the otherover a wooden model, and illustrated in detail on Plate II, are, ofcourse, totally unlike any tassels ever conceived by the Chinese them- 411.
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