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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wall paper, and are so planned that widths can l)e omitted orrepeated to accord with the wall space without si)oiling the continuityor apparent completeness of the picture. The effect of these printedtapestries on a large scale, seen at a little distance, is far more agree-able than that of the jacquard tapestry panels described above. Theyalso are very inexpensive. One set of the prints is based on theancient Gothic fifteenth century Trojan AVar series of tapestries;another shows the Foundation of Rome. THE WEAVE OF KEAL TAlESTKIES On the simplest form of primitive tapestry loom, the weaversleft hand pulls the leashes (Ihscs) that form the new shed of thewarp, while his right hand passes the bobbin that carries the weft,and passes it only as far as the colour that it carries is to show onthe face of the finished cloth. On the way out (to the left) the weftcovers the even warps; on the way back, the odd warps, thus form-ing a complete pim. The warp threads being hard-spun and com- 228
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JACQUARD TAPESTRY PANEL

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