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 186
finished fabricappears with chenille strips locked into place; but with severalremoved in order to reveal the linen warps that do the locking. Inthe finer chenille axminsters, the body as well as the chenille is almostentirely of wool. In a, the cloth is shown at right angles to the wayit is woven.… … Plate I—SECTION OF AMERICAN-MADE CHENILLE AXMINSTER RUG In four tones 159 DECORATIVE TEXTILES the Smyrna, named after the city in Asia Minor from which manyOriental rugs are shipped. However, these Smyrna rugs are notOriental at all, hut made like chenille axminsters except that thechenille is very…
Embroidery · Tapestry · Textile fabrics · Lace and lace making · Wallpaper · Decoration and ornament
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