Identifier: decorativetextil00hunt (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Textile fabrics Textile design Lace and lace making Embroidery Wallpaper Leatherwork Interior decoration Tapestry
Publisher: Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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aperhanger to use. Picture and large-pattern papers are difficult to space and arrange in rooms much cutup by windows and dooi-s and often come out badly at the corners.But even with machine-printed pa;)ers it is possible to secure panelledand frieze and crown effects by the use of a))pH(iues, borders andfriezes and detached motifs being printed on a separate roll, cut apartwith a very ingenious aijplique cutting machine and pasted around,above or over the regular side w^all paper. The development of theseapplique papers is of recent date and due principally to an Americanfirm who have made a noteworthy success of carrying coals to New-castle; in other words, of exporting wall papers to London. Thesame firms leather papers also deserve especial mention because oftheir unusual merit (Plate XIX). With wall papers are very properly grouped those cloths thatare specially sized or prepared by different manufacturers for appli-cation wath paste by paperhangers. Some of them with glazed sur-
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