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Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretones, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)

Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia, London, J. B. Lippincott Company · leaf 207

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as embellished by conventional dragons.During the last half of the seventeenth century, scrolls began toreplace the straight lines, and these in tin-n were replaced in theeighteenth century by naturalistic leaves and flowers. Often on the field of Chinese rugs appear Chinese lions or liondogs… … •r ^ *-- CHINESE AND BOKHARA RUGS The warp of Chinese rugs is iihnost always of cotton. Conse-quently the end selvages and the fringes are unimportant, as cottondoes not make interesting selvages or fringes. Of course some of thevery finest rugs, those with woollen as well as those with silk pile…

Textile fabrics · Textile design · Lace and lace making · Embroidery · Wallpaper · Leatherwork · Interior decoration · Tapestry

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