Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt (find matches)
Title: 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
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927
Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament
Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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Plate XXIV—THE GREAT ARDEBIL RUG IN THE SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM 17 feet 6 inches by 37 feet 10 inches. Woven at Kashan in Persia in 1540, and signed with place and date
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Plate XXV—PERSIAN EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY RUG Woollen pile broche with gold and silver on silk web. Collection of Prince Alexis Lobanof-Rostowskv 225 DECORATIVE TEXTILES the nineteenth century, however, the industrial development of Indiaunder English rule, and especially the introduction of rug weavinginto the jails, substituted modern factory for primitive methods, andtwenty-five years after the International Exhibition of 1851 inLondon, where Indian rugs of extraordinary merit had been exhibited,the rugs in India had become a factory product. Western designshad been introduced, bad dyes were common, and prison-made fabricsflooded the English market. It is only fair to add that during thelast few years the quality of India rugs has greatly improved, andreproductions not only of Persian but also of Chinese rugs, are madethat compare favourably with the originals. Credit for illustrations: Plates III, VI to XI, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Plate V,Howard Greenley; Plates XII to XXI

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