An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . 1«1 T, ou is XIV. ARMCHAIR AND CARVINGS. Last Half 17th Century Those to take tapestries arefrom 12 feet to 21 feet ormore in length (see No. i,page189). They are composed ofa pair of strong cylindersof oak or deal, called lisses,placed horizontally in thesame vertical plane, andat some distance from oneanother (from 7 feet to about8 feet apart), supported bydouble uprights in oak,
An historical guide to French interiors, furniture, decoration, woodwork, & allied arts during the last half of the seventeenth century, the whole of the eighteenth century, and the earlier part of the nineteenth . 1«1 T, ou is XIV. ARMCHAIR AND CARVINGS. Last Half 17th Century Those to take tapestries arefrom 12 feet to 21 feet ormore in length (see No. i,page189). They are composed ofa pair of strong cylindersof oak or deal, called lisses,placed horizontally in thesame vertical plane, andat some distance from oneanother (from 7 feet to about8 feet apart), supported bydouble uprights in oak, andestablished in such a manneras to allow them to divertmore or less, and so stretchthe threads of the warp. Thelatter are rolled and fixedon the rollers by a curtainrod placed in a longitudinalgroove cut out in the lengthof the roller. It takes greatknowledge how to fix thewarps, and it is of muchtoo technical a nature tobe explained here. Thewarp is sometimes verticaland sometimes horizontal. Itis wound round the topcylinder of the loom, theweb as it is finished beingwound round the lower is impossible in awork like this to give any-thing like a detailed descrip-tion of the manufacture oftapestry
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