Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . obvious difference between the two is in the surface texture,that consists of ribs in woven tapestry and of points in needleworktapestry. Also, in needlework tapestry the background is often incoarse point (gros point) while the faces and hands and other partsof the figures are in fine point (petit point), an effect th
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . obvious difference between the two is in the surface texture,that consists of ribs in woven tapestry and of points in needleworktapestry. Also, in needlework tapestry the background is often incoarse point (gros point) while the faces and hands and other partsof the figures are in fine point (petit point), an effect that hasrecently been for the first time imitated in real tapestry, and by anAmerican maker who uses fine warps doubled for the background,and single where the petit points come. Furthermore, while the linesof the surface of woven tapestry run only one way (with the warp),those of the surface of needlework tapestry run both ways (with theweft, as well as with the warp), and are less pronounced. The basisor starting point of needlework tapestry is coarse canvas or etamineor bur otto or some similar hard-spun fabric in loose texture. MODERN DYES I am often asked about the dyes of modern tapestries. Are theyvegetable or aniline, and will they last as well as the old ones? 319. Plate XIII—MILLE-FLEUR TAPESTRY COVERINGSMade in America
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