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 (1918)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 32
the passing of the bobbin through the shed. The third great step was the substitution for treadles of a drawboy (hence the term draw loom) who was mounted on a platformabove the warp, where he pulled cords or leashes that raised or loweredthe warp threads as the pattern required, vastly increasing… … Plate I—DAMASK MADE IN AMERICAFrom an old Italian original DECORATIVE TEXTILES for the least expensive purposes, provided the quantity used is suf-ficiently large. Once the pattern is punched on a series of Jacquardcards, and the loom is mounted, it is just like playing a pianola orworking a hand…
Embroidery · Tapestry · Textile fabrics · Lace and lace making · Wallpaper · Decoration and ornament
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