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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scheme of thebed as a whole. Perhaps the most interesting, at any rate the most generous, useof tassels in this residence is in the room where they hang from trellisedcords to form the valance of the window draperies, which down belowthey tie back in pairs, whilst from the lighting fixtures of the ceilingthey depend beneath each candle and the centre. Amongst books on the subject of trimmings the most pretentiousare two portfolios published, one in Dresden, the other in Austria,and both illustrating the taste of twenty or thirty years ago. TheGerman one is entitled Posamenten fur Mobel und Dekorationen,and was published by the Dresden Zeitschrift fur Posamenten-Industrie. The Austrian one was published by S. O. Czeiger.Volume III of Emanuel Bochers Manuel des travaux a laiguilleis devoted to tassels (glands); and Volume IV to cords, braids andknots (cordes, tresses, noeuds), with detailed description and illustra-tions of how to make them. The small collection of trimmings in the 413
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