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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 391

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ecently have begun, likethe Hindoos, to imitate a fashion set by Europeans. Plate I, in colour,entitled The Origin of Wall Paper, reproduces not a Chinese wallpaper but a Chinese painting. In otiier words, the origin of JCiuropeanwall papers is to l)e sought in the Chinese paintings on paper… … (1) A TfMicrs tM])cstrv in [mper

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

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