. 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. abricappears with chenille strijjs locked into ])lace; but with severalremoved in order to reveal the linen war])s that do the locking. Inthe finer chenille axminsters, the body as well as the chenille is almostentirely of wool. In a, the cloth is shown at right angles to the wayit is wo\en. The loom on which it is wov
. 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. abricappears with chenille strijjs locked into ])lace; but with severalremoved in order to reveal the linen war])s that do the locking. Inthe finer chenille axminsters, the body as well as the chenille is almostentirely of wool. In a, the cloth is shown at right angles to the wayit is wo\en. The loom on which it is woven is warped with grou])sof from four to six cotton or linen stiings (one group for each stripthere is to be of this chenille) and the coarse worsted weft that is laterto form the pile is inserted by the weaver from shuttles, one for eachcolour that is to a2)pear in the design. Of course, all the strips in asingle weaving are necessarily exactly alike, antl the process becomeseconomical in proportion as many strips of the same kind are course, the length of each of the strijjs is etjual to the width of therug, and each strip represents the exact succession of colours thatoccurs in the width. A few- years ago one of the most pojjular rugs on the market was 158. Plate I—SECTION OF AMERICAN-MADE CHENILLE AXMINSTER RUG In four tones lo9 DECORATIVE TEXTILES the s-mi/rtni. named after the city in Asia Minor from which manyOriental nigs are shipped. However, f}use Smyrna rugs are notOriental at all, but made like chenille axminsters except that thechenille is very coarse and heavy and is inserted in the body while stillflat, so that the fur points down as well as up, and the back of the rugis just like the face. Retail salesmen used to say to visitors to whomthey were trying to sell smyrna rugs: When it is worn out on theface, turn it over and wear tlie back out. Of course, this remark wasmisleading, for the back of a smyrna rug wears out nearly as fast asthe face, and l
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