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 345
are not gold wire or even wireplated with gold; they are yellow silk threads wound around withgold tinsel, aiul the effect when the tinsel breaks away in tiny pointsfrom the silk underneath is exceedingly pleasing, much more so thanwhen the surface still remains all shine and sheen of gold. The… … CJ c