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Identifier: decorativetextil1918hunt Title: 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 Year: 1918 (1910s) Authors: Hunter, George Leland, 1867-1927 Subjects: Embroidery Tapestry Textile fabrics Lace and lace making Wallpaper Decoration and ornament Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company Grand Rapids, The Dean-Hicks company Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: finished fabricappears with chenille strips locked into place; but with severalremoved in order to reveal the linen warps that do the locking. Inthe finer chenille axminsters, the body as well as the chenille is almostentirely of wool. In a, the cloth is shown at right angles to the wayit is woven. The loom on which it is woven is warped with groupsof from four to six cotton or linen strings (one group for each stripthere is to be of this chenille) and the coarse worsted weft that is laterto form the pile is inserted by the weaver from shuttles, one for eachcolour that is to appear in the design. Of course, all the strips in asingle weaving are necessarily exactly alike, and the process becomeseconomical in proportion as many strips of the same kind are required.Of course, the length of each of the strips is equal to the width of therug, and each strip represents the exact succession of colours thatoccurs in the width. A few years ago one of the most popular rugs on the market was 158 Text Appearing After Image: Plate I—SECTION OF AMERICAN-MADE CHENILLE AXMINSTER RUG In four tones 159 DECORATIVE TEXTILES the Smyrna, named after the city in Asia Minor from which manyOriental rugs are shipped. However, these Smyrna rugs are notOriental at all, hut made like chenille axminsters except that thechenille is very coarse and heavy and is inserted in the body while stillflat, so that the fur points down as well as up, and the back of the rugis just like the face. Retail salesmen used to say to visitors to whomthey were trying to sell Smyrna rugs: When it is worn out on theface, turn it over and wear the back out. Of course, this remark wasmisleading, for the back of a Smyrna rug wears out nearly as fast asthe face, and by the time the face pulls loose, the back is gone also.The heel that scrapes the face also causes the back to scrape againstthe floor. But the stain that soils one side does not necessarily soilthe other; and reversing the rug occasionally keeps the colours freshlonger. Smyrna rugs i Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Image from page 186 of Decorative textiles; an illustrate…
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