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 32
productionof damasks, brocades and velvets. The fourth great step was the invention of the .Tac(|uard attach-ment in the time of Xapoleon. This attachment was merely amechanical contrivance, but it supplanted the draw boy. just as thedraw boy had supplanted treadles, and just as treadles had… … Plate I—DAMASK MADE IX AMERICA From nil nid Italinii orioinal DECORATIVE TEXTILES for the least expensive purposes, provided the (juantity 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…
