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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ge proportion of the early Frenchand English papers bore designs that were either Chinese (more orless Europeanised) or Chinese and Rococo mixed. Probably Warewas less hostile to the crimson flock papers, some plain and some withGenoese velvet patterns, because they could be used in Classicinteriors. These flock papers, made by Covering paper with a stickysubstance and then dusting the surface with powdered wool, had beenused to line boxes and furniture and as screen fillers as early as thefifteenth century, and in small panels on walls perhaps as early asthe first half of the seventeenth century. We also have many interesting items about the use of Chinesepapers in France in the eighteenth century. In 1770 there wereadvertised for sale in Paris twenty-four sheets of Chinese paper, withfigures and gilt ornaments, each ten feet high by three and a halfwide, at twenty-four livres a sheet. In 1779 an apartment in Pariswas advertised to let, having a pretty boudoir with China paper in 364
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Plate IV—THE CHINESE GARDEN A hand-blocked landscape paper, made in Alsace about 1840, after designs by French artistsThe illustration shows two widths out of the ten forming the complete picture 3G5

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