. 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. limitation. Each point is an individualunit quite as much as in a hand-knotted rug, and the j^rocess is nota silk velvet process but an actual inserting of short pieces of spool axminster has always a cut pile, never the loojjedpile of brussels. Instead of frames, as in ])russels, there are spoolsthe
. 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. limitation. Each point is an individualunit quite as much as in a hand-knotted rug, and the j^rocess is nota silk velvet process but an actual inserting of short pieces of spool axminster has always a cut pile, never the loojjedpile of brussels. Instead of frames, as in ])russels, there are spoolsthe width of the fabric, eacli with a series of sliort projecting tubes,one for each point of the design. Wound on the spool and project-ing through the tubes, are worsted threads of the saxony type,corres2)onding in colour to the fiist row of points of the design. Forthe second row of points of the design, a second spool is prepared; athird spool for the third row; and so on imtil the rei^eat comes. Thesespools are then arranged in the loom in an endless chain, so that eachprojecting row of tufts is presented in turn just above the placewhere it is to be inserted in the body of the fabric. The tufts areseized by a row of nippers, drawn out to the proper length, and cut 167. Plate VIII—SPOOL AXMIXSTER PICTURE HUG MADE IN NEW YORK
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