Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers (1918)
Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 · Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company; Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company · leaf 413
. It is easy, in trying to secure hand-blocked or textile effects, to exaggerate the oddities whilst losing thevirtues. One can get more pattern for ones money in wall paperthan in other material. Consequently, most apartments and housesoverwhelm one with the noise of the designs papered on the… … Plate XVII—AN AMERICAN HAND-BLOCKED PAPER The finest wall paper ever made in the United States, containing 120 colours eachprinted slowly and laboriously by hand 386 WALL PAPERS No wonder that many architects and decorators turn with reliefto the papers that emphasise texture and minimise pattern,…
Embroidery · Tapestry · Textile fabrics · Lace and lace making · Wallpaper · Decoration and ornament
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