. 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 by hand only and in smallsheets—wall papers were either printed and sold in small sheets, orrolls were made In pasting together sheets before printing. The invention of paper is commonly attributed to the Chinese,despite the fact tliat the word jxtpcr is derived from papi/rus, one ofthe two sacred i)lants of the anci
. 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 by hand only and in smallsheets—wall papers were either printed and sold in small sheets, orrolls were made In pasting together sheets before printing. The invention of paper is commonly attributed to the Chinese,despite the fact tliat the word jxtpcr is derived from papi/rus, one ofthe two sacred i)lants of the ancient Egyptians, the other beingthe Jotits that Professor (xoodyear, of the Brooklyn Museum, hasexploited in an epocli-making book. As a matter of fact, the Egyp-tians used j^aper made from the papyrus more than 8,000 years beforethe Chinese discovered how to make ])aper from the mulberry andthe baml)()o. Also, both the Greeks and the Romans used Egyptianpaper made from tlie papyrus, and continued to use it until the fifthcentury A. D., when the arts of western ELurope were subniergedbeneath the hordes of wandering barbarians. After that most of thewriting done in Ein-opean monasteries appeared on the polished skinsof sheep and other animals (j)archment and vellum)-;ir)S. Plate I—THE ORIGIN OF WALL PAPKR A Cliinesf ])aiating in the styk- of Kien-liMif;-, |)ietui-ing the Taoist fairy,Mo-l\u-lisicn, with attiiidaiit (leer 35!)
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