. 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. e horizontal ribs entirely covered with fine warps,as in rep; or of fine and often hardly perceptible horizontal ribs onlypartly covered with fine warps, as in silk taffeta and silk grosgrainand the jaspe cloth illustrated on Plate A 2, the surface of twills showsdiagonal ribs, as in Plate C 1, and the sin-face of sati
. 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. e horizontal ribs entirely covered with fine warps,as in rep; or of fine and often hardly perceptible horizontal ribs onlypartly covered with fine warps, as in silk taffeta and silk grosgrainand the jaspe cloth illustrated on Plate A 2, the surface of twills showsdiagonal ribs, as in Plate C 1, and the sin-face of satins, fine warpthreads only that lie smooth and flat with a characteristic gloss orshininess produced by their even parallelism, as in Plate C 8. A characteristic one-two ttdll is the denim in Plate C 1. In weav-ing it, the war2)s are divided into three systems. A, B and C—theA system including warps 1, 4, 7, etc.; the B system warps 2, 5, 8,etc.; the C system Avarps 3, 6, 9, etc. For the first jjassage of theshuttle to the left, the A warps are depressed and the B and C warpselevated, so that the weft covers the A warps but is covered by theB and C warps. For the retin-n of the shuttle to the right, the Bthreads arc depressed and the C and A threads elevated. For the 57.
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Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectlaceandlacemaking
