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 91
amasks are the simj)lest of all damasks to understandbecause the contrasts of texture, that is to say, of warp siu-faces withweft surfaces, are easy to see. Just as tapestry is the most elaborately figured and character-istic product of the bobbin loom, so damask is the most characteristicfigured…
