. 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. IMatf I \ Ann-rican gftld hrfu-ade based <mi an ancient Plate \ -l^rneade made in America, reprinlnition ot one Sicilian fabric in Brussels Musenni DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS warps. The former, like real tapestries, originated on the bobbinloom, while the latter, like damasks and hrocades, originated on theshuttl
. 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. IMatf I \ Ann-rican gftld hrfu-ade based <mi an ancient Plate \ -l^rneade made in America, reprinlnition ot one Sicilian fabric in Brussels Musenni DAMASKS, BROCADES AND VELVETS warps. The former, like real tapestries, originated on the bobbinloom, while the latter, like damasks and hrocades, originated on theshuttle loom. Furthermore, just as real tapestries are vastly moreancient in their origin than damasks and hrocades, so tccft vclvctnare much older than tcarp vclvii^i, and we have examples of themdating as far back as the third century A. D. I refer to the Copticfabrics with coarse uncut pile of wool and linen. The sin-face is veryopen, the rows of loojjs being far apart with plain canvas loops consist of weft threads that go over and under alternatepairs of warjjs. Many of the linen loops are particularly long andshaggy; all of the woollen loops, short and thick and soft. TheseCoptic velvets I regard as the primitive form, not only of weft velvets,but also of han
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