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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; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks Company · leaf 207

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, the serpent, the horse, the goat, the monkey, the cat, the dog,the bear, the rat. Important to the student and the dealer in Chinese rugs is aknowledge of Chinese coloin- symbolism, black standing for water,mercury, iron, etc.; green for wood, tin, etc. Colours Elentciitx Metals P la lilt n… … •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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