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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C9? S TAPESTRIES AND THEIR IMITATIONS paratively coarse, and the weft threads fine and soft, the latter whenpressed home with the point of the bobbin or with the comb, coverand completely hide the warp threads that make their presence mani-fest as ribs. In other words real tapestries are ribbed or rep fabricsAvith surface consisting entirely of weft threads. They are also cxactlt/alike oil both sides (except for the loose irregular loops of thread onthe back). In this they are unique. Between the real tapestry loom as still used at the Gobelins andEeauvais, Aubusson and Merton, New York, Rome, Madrid, Berlinand elsewhere, and the ordinary type of hand loom, the difference isfundamental. In the latter the bobbin is not passed with the hand,but thrown or knocked the full width f)f the warp in a shuttle. Realtapestry is a bobbin fal>ric; the woven imitations are shuttle fabrics. SHUTTLE AND NEEDLE TAPESTRIES Of these shuttle imitations, the cleverest and best are like theone illustrat

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