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 . (1) City Hall Park, New York. (2) The Statue of Liberty Plate XXI—MODERN PATRIOTIC WALL PAPERSDesigned in 1917 by Charles Jeltrup, a French designer working in New York 392 WALL PAPERS face are for bath rooms and kitchens, and some are adapted to serveas ground for decorative painting or stencilling. Some emphasisethe
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 . (1) City Hall Park, New York. (2) The Statue of Liberty Plate XXI—MODERN PATRIOTIC WALL PAPERSDesigned in 1917 by Charles Jeltrup, a French designer working in New York 392 WALL PAPERS face are for bath rooms and kitchens, and some are adapted to serveas ground for decorative painting or stencilling. Some emphasisethe texture of the basic muslin or canvas or burlap, whilst others addmetal effects or imitate the texture of leather or Japanese grass cloth,or are overprinted with small wall paper patterns. The surface effectof these prepared cloths is much softer and more agreeable than thatof most plasters and wall papers. Credit for illustrations: Plates I, IV to VIII, XV, Harry Wcarne; Plate II, the Metro-politan Museum of Art; Plates IV, X, A. P. Diament & Co., American representatives ofDefosse & Karth; Plates X, XII to XIV, A. E. Bulkelev, American representative of Morris &Company; Plates XVI to XX, M. H. Birge & Sons Co. CHAPTER XIX DRAPERY AND FURNITURE TRIMMINGS Gimps, Galloons, Braids, Bo
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