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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 209

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fact that most of thedesigns are less continuous than in Persian and other Oriental rugs.The motifs are apt to be detached, and separated from each other byspaces of solid colour. This is especially true of the rugs that showthe signs and synd)t)ls of the literati. Also, the borders of Chineserugs… … llate III—CHIXESE RUG OF THK KAXG-HI DYNASTYPatterned with sviiibols of the Literati

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

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